Stefan Staicu

Along the Frumoasa Valley

The industrial site, the dam under construction and the colony of workers’ housing attached to them are among the favourite spaces of the Sahia documentary, especially during the last decade of the communist regime. The work on the country’s numerous industrial sites is a constant theme included in the annual Thematic Plans of the studio, therefore repeatedly fixed on film and repeatedly missed, or at least simplified by the documentaries of the time, always completed under the pressure of the political imperative.

Ion Marin's Letter to the Spark

Ion Marin writes a letter to the editor of his local newspaper extolling the virtues of collective agriculture.