Chto Delat’s film project “A Border Musical” (2005) was a contribution to "Monday Begins on Saturday", the first edition of Bergen Assembly, a triennial of contemporary art in Norway. The filmic mise-en-scène hybridizes two issues that tend to be unpopular with Norwegian audiences: the marriage market along the Norwegian-Russian border and the rigid Norwegian social care system, which routinely pulls children from so-called problem families in order to integrate them into “healthier environments.” After extensive research, Chto Delat? realized a studio production with musical interludes in the style of Bertolt Brecht’s “Singspiel”; charming and nimble, it deconstructs the glossy image of a caring community.

A 73-year-old security guard from the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden writes a letter to the director of the Muzeum Sztuki of Łódź, requesting to volunteer as a security guard there. The Right (2015) is a fictional story framed by historical sentiments. The ostensible reason for the security guard’s wish for a transfer – apart from her personal history as a Polish-German refugee in the 1940s – is the Łódź museum’s collection of avant-garde pieces by the "a.r." group ("revolutionary artists", "real avant-garde") from the 1930s, which she values much more highly than the old masters in the Caravaggisti room in Dresden, where she is currently placed.

In 1906, there was the first women’s strike in France in Cerbère. Why ? Because they wanted to be paid five or six cents more per ton, per wagon. The transiters who were responsible for the wagons did not accept their request, so they went on strike.
Cerbère is a border town between France and Spain. In Cerbère, Spanish and French trains must stop, because the width of the rails differs in both countries. Until the 1980s, goods had to be carried from one train to another. The women of Cerbère and the région were working as « transbordeuses », it was their task to carry the oranges in large baskets. The men had heavier goods to carry.