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A documentary workshop that took place between the summer and autumn of 2004 in Barcelona and Vienna. Two groups of migrant teenagers are given the chance to use the cameras. A reflection on European migration that comes from migration itself.

Karaganda, Kazakhstan's second-largest city, located to the south of the steppes, was built in 1930 by displaced prisoners over a coalfield in the immense Karlag. Today, the basis of the city's economy is disappearing, leading to considerable impoverishment. « Mine de Rien » documents a time of instability, of transition between two states, feeling abandonment and capitalist hope. A state that has passed and a state which is just starting, intangible, inevitable. The film follows this transition, which generates chaos, adaptation and suffering, revealing the impossibility of being : at a time when human beings can no longer be considered as a mass, but a sum of individuals. En exploding population mapped over the geographical structure of the city.

In 1943, at the request of the American army, the University of Minnesota implements a psychological test for officer recruitment. The same test is later used internationally to recruit staff for private companies. "Relax, try to be sincere".

After many years of living overseas, the director meets his father in Shenzhen. The setting of the film is a Russian- made aircraft carrier named Minsk, which seems to have the same life experience as the director. With its past glory and memories, this huge carrier is now a major commercial opportunity. Chinese and foreign tourist swap their roles here. The way the director sees it, Minsk has been transformed from an enormous war machine into a money making machine.

The history of an emblematic squat and its unavoidable transformation in the era of high-speed capitalism. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.