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Article: Power Trip; Directed by Paul Devlin
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- Philadelphia Weekly
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- April 28, 2004
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"People always find a way to survive," remarks a befuddled employee of the electric company AES-Telasi, shuddering over the sight of a hopelessly impenetrable--and certainly deadly--mishmash of illegally strung wires powering an isolated block of never-completed apartment buildings.
This chaotic image is perfect: Awash in civil war since declaring independence from the Soviet Union, Georgia also let its electric problem erode to the point where the average electric bill in the country was almost twice the monthly wages ($15) for an average Georgian.
Despite the chaos of his subject, American documentarian Paul Devlin (SlamNation) manages the seemingly impossible task of unraveling it all in ...