How To Fix The World

Based on Soviet psychologist A.R. Luria's research on Central Asian collective farms in the 1930s, How To Fix The World illustrates the cultural conflicts between speaking and writing, drawing and photography and between Soviet Socialism and Islam. Digital animations based on Max Penson's early 20th-century photographs play against a backdrop of 21st-century footage of Uzbekistan, where Luria originally conducted these humorous, conflicting and revealing conversations with the Muslim farmers of Central Asia.