YARAT FILM CLUB PRESENTS Tinatin Gurchiani'S FILM “THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR”

YARAT Contemporary Art Centre is delighted to invite you to the screening of “THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR”, a film written and directed by Tinatin Gurchiani. The screening will be organized as a part of YARAT Film Club which aims to become an informal meeting point for the viewing and discussion of contemporary art videos and films. 

THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR (97 min.) is a 2012 documentary film brilliantly written and directed by Tinatin Gurchiani who wants to make a film about growing up in her home country, Georgia, and find commonalities across social and ethnic lines.

A filmmaker puts out a casting call for young adults, aged 15- to 23. She travels through cities and villages interviewing the candidates who responded and filming their daily lives. The boys and girls who responded to the call are radically different from one another, as are their personal reasons for auditioning. Some want be movie stars and see the film as a means to that end; others want to tell their personal story. One girl wants to call to account the mother who abandoned her; one boy wants to share the experience of caring for his handicapped family members; another wants to clear the name of a brother, currently serving a jail sentence. Together, their tales weave a kaleidoscopic tapestry of war and love, wealth and poverty, creating an extraordinarily complex vision of a modern society that still echoes with its Soviet past.

The film received a Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival, Filmmakers Award Hot Docs, Best Documentary It’s All True Brazil, Best Documentary Sofia International Film Festival etc.

Tinatin Gurchiani was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She studied painting, dance and psychology. After receiving her diploma with honours at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, she pursued a postgraduate study in psychology at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany, and the University of Graz in Austria. She studied directing at the University of Film and Television Konrad Wolf (HFF) in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany, and graduated with honours in 2010. In 2007, Gurchiani won the DAAD Award for artistic and social engagement in film.

The film will be shown in Georgian with English subtitles.

June 23, 2015

Time 19.00

YARAT Contemporary Art Centre (near the National Flag square)

Free admission

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