Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Overview

Director: Driant Zeneli
Albania
Experimental | 14 min
No dialogue

Mario and Metallurgik: a rendezvous between utopia and dystopia.

Mario has always had a passion for flying and building aeroplanes. Metallurgik is the location of an abandoned factory in Albania, where 12,000 people used to work during the 1970s.
Today Mario is the master of assembling flying machines and dreams of reaching outer space. Metallurgjik, on the other hand, is now empty—proof of the failure of Albanian communism to build an ideal society.