Milk of Magnesia

This video is about the poisonous “acid factory” in Ekaterinburg, Russia. The factory has shut down its production (refining gold and platinum), but the building remains as architecturally significant. Yet, it is so poisonous nobody can enter it. This video is also about my personal history experiencing mercury poisoning.
I have interviewed workers of the factory. What struck me was how their techno-rationality soon gave way for musings about myths and beliefs they held about the factory and their lives. This video is interwoven with the workers’ fantasies and those of my own: me desperately trying to repair my body from the mercury poisoning, and the workers trying desperately to bring back the factory and its poison, to repair their lost identity.