THE PAST THAT REMAINS IN THINGS
Most films show war with noise, action, confrontation but there is another way - a slow, silent one, based on things. Nino Gogua’s documentary “The Things” (2017) is the representative of this different language. It speaks with things, the archive of the past and silence. It is not just a chronicle of displacement, it is a cinematic attempt to restore the idea of home in a space where home no longer exists but things still speak. What remains when a house is taken away, words are silenced, and time ...