WAITING FOR THE ETERNAL THEATER OF HEAVEN

“You see, this is my life. It always will be! There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras – and HYPERLINK "https://genius.com/4220532/Sunset-blvd-sunset-boulevard-delusional-descent-down-stairs/Those-wonderful-people-out-there-in-the-dark"those wonderful people out there in the dark!…” -with these dramatic words descends the stairs Nora Desmond in the film “Sunset Boulevard,” for whom the police and journalists enquire at home for the murder of screenwriter Joe Gillis. Completely cut off from reality and trapped in the world of cinema, in the time of bygone times ......

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MYTH IN THE AGE OF TECHNO GENESIS

We all have a list of special films. When you watch them, you get an aesthetic-philosophical shock and an impression that continues to live in you for years and settles in the depths of your own consciousness, becoming a part of you and never forgetting it. Time passes, you watch other, new films, but you also find the influence, citation or simple parallel of such films in other works, consequently, they become a kind of cultural measure and standard in your creative...

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HOW TO "ARRANGE" IDEAL CORRUPTION

In the category of short films of the 2022 Tbilisi International Film Festival, a student animated film, "Skyscraper" (2020) was shown, which easily took its place in the list of my favorite works. Rarely have I liked a small cinematic story that puts its message across so succinctly, eloquently and impressively. Moreover, about such an eternal human vice and, unfortunately, an insurmountable problem like corruption. “Animation can explain whatever the mind of man...

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LIFE AS SEEN FROM THE ELEVATOR

From the very first days of its birth, cinema has always tried to realize its main "task"- to tell a story in an interesting way with independent and original audiovisual methods. Logically, the methods, forms and content of cinematic narration and delivery have undergone large-scale development and transformation during its existence. Neither is it unusual that the main characters of films, who are not only in the center of attention but also become "narrators" themselves, are not directly human, but also other spiritual or non-spiritual beings.

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FAMILY PORTRAIT IN PREPARATION FOR BIRTHDAY

A future film directors’ workshop led by Merab Kokochashvili brought together young people with interesting potential, in whose works we can read the attempt to see the spark, aesthetics, beauty, and even value in everyday, seemingly banal stories and spaces, which will make us think about the events around us and show us their meaning. It might as well give us a small piece of life advice. Ilia Asitashvili's film "Preparation" offers just that – a delicate, aesthetic, somewhat humorous, and familiar observation of the problematic relationship between a father and his teenage son in a modern family.

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