Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory started as an investigation of the link between politics and chocolate at the Karl Marx Confectionary Factory in Kiev Ukraine Since access to the factory was denied the project had to be reconsidered reinvented or reenacted Mostly made of archival footage and reenacted performances based on the companys website the film merges what was left of the initial idea with what has been collected and realized instead It borrows from the genres of video art Man on the street interview direct address corporate film essay and music video without legitimately belonging to any of them The film unravels as a reflection on its own failure and yet keeps on investigating what has always been at stake the shift from public to private property and from analog to digital technology dialectics of permanence and change language as a mirror of ideology and postSoviet oligarchy culture