Searching for Patrick
Inspired by various news reports and by Petrut Calinescu's photographic project Pride and Concrete, the documentary tries to uncover the inner mechanisms that induced the need of constructing buildings of this sort, in an attempt to craft a psychological portrait of the Northern Romanian who has encountered "the West". Searching for Patrick doesn't find Patrick (as Godot never shows up), since he is a collective character: Certeze itself. The research documentary focuses on the cultural loss that might have occurred in the last years and on the continued attitude of abandoning the traditional architecture of Oas region.