"Do you feel cheaper?" We are filming Lithuanian migrant working men in Sweden. They do not want to be on camera, they do not want to participate in creating one more media image for guilt and pity. They film us. We empty a bottle of moonshine, we dance on their porch. They might let us film them tomorrow.
Through sincere and frustrating negotiation to get access to film the migrant workers, Second Class becomes a discussion about class, the value of work and human. While showing the filming process film raises questions about power relations in film industry itself.
For VOD: www.secondclass.se
Motivation for Hets Award, 2013:
“Marta and Elisabeth bring up a major dilemma regarding European class and nationality in a personal way. They do it in a questioning, discussing and courageous way - in both words and pictures - depicting the situation of a group of Lithuanian men – migrant workers and second class men in Sweden – reflecting their desires, gazes and positions in the film.”
Director and producer: Marta Dauliūtė, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Production company: MDEMC
Featuring among others: Artras Andriukaitis, Edvardas Jurgilas
DOP: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound recording: Marta Dauliūtė
Editing: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
Graphic design: Jurgis Griškevičius
Colorist: Martin Steinberg
On-line: Rickard Petersen
Publisher: Johan Nyberg
PRODUCTION NOTES
Country of production: Sweden, Lithuania
Produced by: MDEMC
Language: Lithuanian, Swedish, English
Genre: documentary
Length: 60/58 min
Filming locations: Norrfors, Nordmaling, Västerbotten; Roasjö, Svenljunga, Västra Götaland; Uppsala; ferry Stockholm-Riga and Karlshamn-Klaipėda.
PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT BY
Swedish Film Institute, Tove Torbiörnsson
Film Stockholm/Filmbasen, Joakim Blendulf
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee