The film Energy Lithuania is a documentary study of an electric power plant, which includes conversations with people who have worked there. Although the power plant is functioning, it has now become like a museum of industrial thought. Still, the livelihood of thousands of people depends on it. It will not be easy to reform industrial society. The biggest challenge is to find a credible intellectual replacement for positivist industrial romanticism.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Lithuania
- Year
- 2000
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 17'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL