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Producer: Alxandra Gabunia
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Shots from the videofilm “"Several Lonely Snapshots about Several Lonely Creatures and Things"
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The video film "Several Lonely Snapshots about Several Lonely Creatures and Things" is about identity of existential space in any geographic point, where the position of process of integration of values and relations, ideology or results will clearly appear under the actual events of the epoch. It is of experimental nature by its form and the documentary film corresponds to genre definition by feature film minimal elements. Consistent allocation of episodes, shots is subject to conceptual construction of captions and make one video mosaic space by collage. Episodes close to each other conceptually or emotionally, or conversely radically differing from each other, are accentuated by video montage. Archival material along with the documentary shots gives parallel information and widens the reality area. Concrete history, a concrete hero or an anti-hero, a thing are created by archival materials and played scenes. Uncle Tengiz is sitting in the mechanic's booth with earphones at the film director's request and is scoring episodes from Andrei Tarkovski's films. Fresco, archetype image of Uncle Shota comes to light. Ambivalent relation connected to perception of events, unfulfilled communications and existential problems are expressed in video plastics and are the version of private perception. Diversity of textures, agressive subway underground, passengers' monotonous rhythmic, monotony, uncared streets and smartened night town, buildings like "geometric objects", which is difficult to call houses, political leaders dancing or singing, absurd curtseys and gestures, lions confined in a zoo, dictators, terrorists or politicians turned in mafia, people living on alms and other people talk to us through their actions by forthcoming catastrophes or protecting signal massages. The inner law of a man is that someone should cry: "Let's build pyramids, then let them not be built at all"... Now, in searching new forms social space comes to light, where one conceives a desire not to contemplate, but to change. Involved into life round dance, one deals with the existence material and aims at human engineering. Social environment is not a metaphor, it is common space with multiform dimensions, where one fixes relations between people, civil institutes, regulates things and marks. It is rather enigmatic when this process proceeds around us and concerns us any time. Maybe we will not be able to recognize blissful or absolute freedom because of non-existence of such in mundane reality, but the right to study artistically cause and effect and the right to have choice "Light to all lonely people" exists.
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