Fragile freedom: MZIA – MZIA AMAGHLOBELI, GAITSANIT CHVENI SHVILEBI, KALEBI KVIS GHOBIS MIGHMA, ZAHESI 708
Sat 27.06.
19:00
Cinema
Arsenal
zu den Ticketszu dem KalenderIntroduction (video): Salomé Jashi; Discussion with Tamuna Karumidze, moderated by Barbara Wurm
The “Fragile freedom” program curated by Salomé Jashi and DOCA – Documentary Association Georgia, also explores conscience and rupture — looking particularly at young people, women and family. GAITSANIT CHVENI SHVILEBI (Meet Our Children, Omar Gvasalia, 1988) depicts teenagers torn between the fun of skateboarding and the search for social morality; KALEBI KVIS GHOBIS MIGHMA (Women Behind a Stone Wall, Tengiz Malania, 1990) takes a women’s prison colony as a symbol for political captivity and portrays the subtle struggle for freedom and independence; the lighthearted 2001 collage ZAHESI 708 by Tamuna Karumidze, who was a student at the HdK in Berlin at the time of making, offers diverse insights into daily life and politics, fashion and music, becoming a record of the “wild” period of transformation between the quest for freedom and the ABCs of capitalism.
MEET OUR CHILDREN and WOMEN BEHIND A STONE WALL are recent discoveries in the film archives as part of the research of Georgian documentaries from the 1970s to 1990s conducted by film scholar Lika Glurjidze. This is the first time they are being screened internationally.
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