POWER TRIP
Paul Devlin, USA, 2003 Tuesday 6 November 2007 10.30pm-11.40am
In an environment of corruption, assassination and street rioting, the story of chaotic post-Soviet transition is told through culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts.
PAUL DEVLIN Director Interview
"I always call it a 'dramatic real-life thriller'"
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Nick Fraser
Storyville Series Editor
Many worthy attempts have been made to comprehend the nature of globalisation. Paul Devlin hit lucky - one of his friends, Piers Lewis, was working for AES, the massive American "global power company" that had just taken over the electricity grid in post-Soviet Georgia.
As this hilarious film demonstrates, Georgians did not take kindly to capitalism. They resented being asked to pay for their electricity - and who can blame them?
Think of an organisation staffed by born-again American Christians and pony-tailed Brits trying to get off with Georgian girls. There you have the image of globalisation.
