Still at the beginning of research, but definitely coming somewhere. Plan is to finish one short film this year.

Wetlands in Siberia, in Iraq, and in my imagination

in search of former peat mines, you can find current military training grounds

Peat, central to Soviet industrialization, was framed as a tool of progress, justifying ecological destruction and labor exploitation. My, quite long essay, explores practical and symbolic role assigned to peat in the Soviet energy production.

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