Some 400 film professionals have signed an open letter in support of the organisation’s former director.
Gaga Chkeidze, who was dismissed as director of the Georgian National Film Centre (Gnfc) last month, has spoken out about his removal, claiming it is part of a wider campaign of cultural censorship in the country.
Chkeidze was suddenly dismissed from his position in mid-March by Thea Tsulukiani, the country’s minister of culture and deputy prime minister, shortly before his three-year term was to expire. The ministry cited alleged financial irregularities following an internal audit of the Gnfc as the reason behind the removal.
Gaga Chkeidze, who was dismissed as director of the Georgian National Film Centre (Gnfc) last month, has spoken out about his removal, claiming it is part of a wider campaign of cultural censorship in the country.
Chkeidze was suddenly dismissed from his position in mid-March by Thea Tsulukiani, the country’s minister of culture and deputy prime minister, shortly before his three-year term was to expire. The ministry cited alleged financial irregularities following an internal audit of the Gnfc as the reason behind the removal.
- 4/6/2022
- by Vladan Petkovic
- ScreenDaily
Macbeth's Birnham wood coming to Dunsinane has nothing on the sight of a majestic mature tree being transported across water - spectacular yet dancing on the edge of the surreal in a way that makes you think Werner Herzog might have conjured it up. It's just one of many that made the trip courtesy of the whim of former prime minister and billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili - although you won't here his name mentioned much in the latest documentary from Salomé Jashi, which focuses for the most part, instead, on the thoughts more everyday Georgians have on the subject.
Filmed without commentary and with a poetic grace, we see people coming and going about their business. Some have sold their trees to Ivanishvili - who has created a dendrological park with them. One elderly man notes his grandfather planted his, as he sits on the enormous root ball that is now ready for.
Filmed without commentary and with a poetic grace, we see people coming and going about their business. Some have sold their trees to Ivanishvili - who has created a dendrological park with them. One elderly man notes his grandfather planted his, as he sits on the enormous root ball that is now ready for.
- 6/21/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
If you happen to maintain your own personal garden and feel stressed about the upkeep, look no further than Salomé Jashi’s visually striking observational documentary to put things in perspective. The garden at the center of Taming the Garden, however, isn’t glimpsed until the film’s final moments as this journey through the country of Georgia is almost entirely about the grueling task of transplanting majestic, century-old trees many, many miles by land and sea. Lest you believe this can be done with some simple equipment, the tree at the center of the story weighs as much as a house and requires months upon months of work to find its new home. In capturing this process, Jashi takes a vivid, evergreen look at the effects of gratuitous wealth.
Absent of on-screen title cards, interviews, or virtually any ancillary table-setting or information outside of this insular world of strenuous work,...
Absent of on-screen title cards, interviews, or virtually any ancillary table-setting or information outside of this insular world of strenuous work,...
- 1/31/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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