HOUSEWARMING is a proposition of an inverse immigration, from the full to the empty, from
excess to lack. It evolves around these and other oppositional terms, such as inside/outside,
host/guest, rich/poor, in order to examine the threshold, the transitory space between these
(artificial) dichotomies.
The work is shot in abandoned private houses in ex-communist Albania. Houses that Effi &
Amir invade and whose empty space they occupy, while the local community comments in
song and speech on the new arrivals and their enterprise.

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