DOKFILM FESTIVAL: The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear. A film by Tinatin Gurchiani - in Leipzig (dok-leipzig.de)

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CINESTAR 5, 01.11.2012, 20:00

CINESTAR 7, 03.11.2012, 10:30

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Georgien, Deutschland / 2012 / 95 minuten / georgisch / englisch Untertitel / Weltpremiere 

Credits

Runtime: 95 minuten

Sprache: georgisch

Untertitel: englisch

Produzent: Tamar Gurchiani, Alethea Ltd

Regisseur: Tinatin Gurchiani

Musik: Mahan Mobashery, Marian Mentrup

Kamera: Andreas Bergmann

Schnitt: Nari Kim, Doreen Ignaszewski

Buch: Tinatin Gurchiani

Ton: Marian Mentrup, Michael Krajczok

Land: Georgien, Deutschland

Jahr: 2012

more: dok-leipzig.de

KATALOGTEXT

Diesem wunderbaren Film über Georgien 2012, einem Land zwischen kommunistischer Vergangenheit und dem modernen Leben irgendwo da draußen, liegt eine ebenso zeitgemäße wie simple Idee zu Grunde. Die Regisseurin Tinatin Gurchiani lädt junge Leute zwischen 15 und 25 Jahren zu einem Film-Casting ein und beginnt, mit ihnen über den geplanten Film zu sprechen. Über ihre Fähigkeiten, ihre Traumrolle und ihr Motiv an dem Casting teilzunehmen, ebenso wie über Ereignisse aus ihrer Vergangenheit oder biographische Risse. Dieses Gespräch wird so klug, einfühlsam und gleichzeitig so zielstrebig geführt, dass die anfängliche Verlegenheit der Protagonisten vor der Kamera schnell schwindet. Schicksale entblättern sich, so wie die Farbe und der Putz von den Wänden blättert, vor denen sie aufgenommen werden. Aus den Casting-Situationen heraus folgt der Film verschiedenen Protagonisten in deren Wirklichkeit, nimmt einen Gedanken auf, taucht in Probleme und Alltag ein und verlässt diesen Pfad wieder über ein neues Casting, eine neue Geschichte, einen neuen Gedanken. Wie ein Mosaik setzt sich in der Folge ein vielschichtiges Bild der Gefühlswelt einer ganzen Generation zusammen, das über die vertikalen Schnitte in das Schicksal einzelner an Tiefe und Glaubwürdigkeit gewinnt. Und an Melancholie. Wenn es eine Maschine geben würde, die etwas aus deiner Vergangenheit löschen kann, was würdest du löschen? Mich – antwortet eine junge Frau. Selten scheint die Sonne in diesem Film, es regnet viel, die Landschaften sind grau und verhangen. Trotzdem gelingt es der Regisseurin, diesem Bild die Schwere zu nehmen – spätestens wenn das Dokumentarische sich in Poesie verwandelt, und wir daran erinnert werden, dass das Leben auch als Komödie verstanden werden kann.
– Matthias Heeder

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(dokincubator.net) The Film is about a search for identity and sense of life in nowadays Georgia, which is a combination of the Soviet past and a modern state.

A film director returns to her home country after a long break. She wants to shoot a film and is in search for a main character – a present time hero. She announces a casting among 15-23 year old youngsters in order to find him. An announcement regarding casting for selection of a film actor is made through TV and social network channels Search for the hero takes place at different locations: villages and the cities, mountains and plains, prison, IDP shelter, fields and upscale clubs. There are a lot of people who come to the casting on their own. They all have different motivation: some are interested in becoming part of a film, some want to be like Jean-Claude Van Damme, the others are ready to share their sentimental stories or seek for strength to carry out their major resolutions, Some of the guests laugh, some go away disappointed, just try to make a good impression, tell us about their unrealized dreams, real heroes. Those who prove to be interesting enough are followed through various dramatic situations. For example, at a boarding school of a mountainous region and wedding of local Moslems, or in an abandoned city of coal miners, settlement of internally displaced persons in a province or in a modern district of the capital. Very often encounters are comic, melancholic or full of unpredictable things and tragic events. Casting moves from place to place and presents a clear and moving portrayal of a new generation, which lives at the crossroads of cultures, information, times and locations and vainly looks for his own self in the realm of metamorphosis and cataclysms in Georgia and as well as beyond its borders. It provides us with kaleidoscopic picture of new generation with human faces. Each participant of the casting is very different from the others based on their stories, geographic, religious or social backgrounds.

Casting and search for the hero is a part, which will unites the film structure Despite the fact that protagonists are portrayed in the film only through their monologues or dramartic story telling, they produce very sharp, “naked” and authentic images. They tell about the experienced wars, powerty and happiness – major moments of their lives. Some of them establish a strong presence through their monologues, the others are followed through their stories without any comment.

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Tamar Gurchiani /GE/

PRODUCER

1992 – 1997 Oriental Studies, Hebrew and Aramaic Philology, Tbilisi Djavakhishvili State University Tbilisi and Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg (1995-1997); 1997 – 2001 PhD at the Tbilisi Djavakhishvili State University and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg; 2005 – 2006 Cultural Manager of the Robert Bosch Foundation at Filmhaus Nuernberg (in the program “Cultural managers from Central and Eastern Europe”); 2003 – 2005 Program Coordinator of the SDC training programe for South Caucasus Film Community – AVANTI (www.focal.ch/avanti); 2006 – 2009 Open Society Georgia Foundation and Heinrich Boell Foundation South Caucasus, coordinator of the South Caucasus Documentary Film Festival of Peace and Human Rights “Nationality: human”; April 2009 – current Program Director and founding member of Alethea – Cultural and Event Management Ltd (www.alethea-events.com); Since January 2011 Cultural program manager and Robert Bosch Foundation’s cultural manager at Europe House Georgia, 1, Freedom Square, Tbilisi (www.europehousegeorgia.org)

Filmography

“Sxvagan-Away” , feature film, 65 min, 2011, Georgia/Germany

“Machine, That Makes Everything Dissapear”, in Postproduktion, 2012, Georgia

Tinatin Gurchiani /GE/

DIRECTOR

After diploma with Honors at the Ivane-Janakhishvili Tbilisi State University and a postgraduate study at the Faculty of Psychology at Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg/Germany and the University of Graz, Austria

A study of Film and TV Director at the Film and Television University Konrad Wolf (HFF), Babelsberg, Germany (Diploma with Honors 2009).

Honors/Awards

2011 – Nominee for First Steps Award 2011 for “Sxvagan-Away” in the Category “Middle-Length- Feature Film” by German Fim Academy

Winner of the National Film Support Fund for a Documentary about young generation in Georgia „Machine, That Makes Everything Disappear”

2011 – Winner of the Goethe Institute Tbilisi fund for a documentary about young generation

„Machine, That Makes Everything Disappear”

Winner of the Robert Bosch Competition „Border Crossers“

Winner of Competition „Best Documentary about Alzheimer Disease“ for „Time of Souls“ (2008)

Winner DAAD-Award 2007 for Artistic and Social Engagement in Film of Go-East

Festival 2007 for “Frauenbilder”, also Official Selection DOK Leipzig

Filmography

“Sunday”, Documentary, 16 mm, 30 min, 2004, Germany

“Somewhere Nowhere”, Feature film, Video, 15 min., 2004, Germany

“Moment”, Feature film, 16 mm, 15 min, 2005, Germany

“Killers”, Feature film, video, 2006, Germany

“Iranian Women”, Documentary, Video, 15 min., 2007, Germany/Iran

“Time of Souls”, Documentary, Video, 35 min.,2008, Germany

“Sxvagan-Away”, Feature film, 65 min, 2011, Georgia/Germany

“Machine, That Makes Everything Dissapear”, Documentary, 90 min, in Postproduktion, 2012

Doreen Ignaszewski /DE/ & Nari Kim /DE/

EDITORS

Nari Kim was born in 1982, South Korea, decided to live in Germany at the age of twenty and began to work in german film and television field with being “lost in translation”. In 2011 graduated with a degree Diplom Schnittmeisterin in Montage at University of Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” Potsdam-Babelsberg. In 2010, edited her first feature film “Away”. Since 2005 working as a freelance editor in Berlin and Seoul. She also directed several short films and experimental videos. “Machine, That Makes Everything Dissapear” is her third film with Tinatin Gurchiani.

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