Duration: 17’00”
A boy comes home from school with a note indicating he was caught stealing
money from his peer at school.
His family is put to the challenge to educate him about the meaning and
border lines separating private property from its "other".
The movie starts as a TV "family sit-com", shot in IKEA "show rooms" in 3
different countries, without permission, and explores the ideas of private
property, stealing and the family as a piggy bank (a social structure built in
order to "keep property from leaking out").
The sitcom family is played out by a real family.
The apartment looks like a Tv set.
But if in the classical American sitcom the economy is separated from the
show (the commercial brake) as the great repressed of that genre- here the
price tags, in view everywhere,make the two spheres collapse into a single
one.
Since we do not ask for permission to shoot the movie there, we need to find
a different store-branch every time we get caught, and asked to leave, or stop
the shootings.
"Being caught", than, disturbs our movie's smooth continuity, but engenders
more and more kitchens or living-rooms, to take part in one scene, as a visual
catalog of ideal living spaces.
In this way the director allows the IKEA staff and workers to interfere, even
dictate, the editing of the movie. |
