Something’s Wrong Here

The clip above is from the Mongolian film, Khadak. A portrait of the overlay of a numeric grid (economy) onto a nomadic people. But in Khadak, the grid is broken. The protagonist and the woman above, lead the shift, undermining the coal industry and all it has taken. Returning them to what was familiar and sustaining—home. But they did not do so because they intended to. He found her buried under coal she was stealing for survival and trade. He only understood his grandfathers silence once the coal mining owners moved him into a hi-rise. But they both listened. They did not discuss it. They felt the change occurring. They only let it open.