{"id":3638,"date":"2026-07-20T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:35:38","slug":"%e1%83%90%e1%83%a0%e1%83%a1%e1%83%94%e1%83%91%e1%83%9d%e1%83%91%e1%83%90-%e1%83%9b%e1%83%94%e1%83%a2%e1%83%a1-%e1%83%98%e1%83%a2%e1%83%94%e1%83%95%e1%83%93%e1%83%90-%e1%83%95%e1%83%98%e1%83%93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/en\/%e1%83%90%e1%83%a0%e1%83%a1%e1%83%94%e1%83%91%e1%83%9d%e1%83%91%e1%83%90-%e1%83%9b%e1%83%94%e1%83%a2%e1%83%a1-%e1%83%98%e1%83%a2%e1%83%94%e1%83%95%e1%83%93%e1%83%90-%e1%83%95%e1%83%98%e1%83%93\/","title":{"rendered":"EXISTENCE HELD MORE THAN THE BEING ITSELF"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The tale of the \u201cLittle Prince\u201d used to change so much people\u2019s perception of the dimensions of existing sensations that the burden and tragic consequences of ignorance had no target. To follow this story more simply, the Little Prince\u2019s calm knowledge of people and living beings penetrated the depths of the most desperate, vulnerable fears and seemed to make them vanish when Saint-Exup\u00e9ry\u2019s tale found its way to people.<\/p>

The more often the motif of this tale is repeated and reflected on stage, screen or in literary works, the more often its all-seeing goodness will change. Humans, moving at the fastest speed towards self-destruction, will never be so close to knowing themselves that they will turn the attractive and even toxic dust of a book into the key to existence for them. The book - as a form of originality, knowledge, unconditional depth, an escape from disappointment, a metaphorical \u201cI\u201d - was transformed by director Mariam Karkashadze in the feature film \u201cObservatory\u201d (2026) into a visible post-homo-super-person, who does not have contours free from sensations, although both its toxic dust and contents bound in yellow-gray sheets are the only living creature on the planet that stubbornly \u201cdid not obey\u201d its own scientists and kind people.<\/p>

The story, told in such a fairy-tale vocabulary, might resemble a small-format surrealist opus more than the analytical beginning of a film. It is natural: the territory of Mariam Karkashadze's Abastumani Observatory, which has become a twilight, looks like a rare mirror on the screen.<\/p>

At the very beginning of the film, a man appears before us heavily wrapped in special clothing; he walks this path every day to save books in this corner of the world torn apart by radiation dust and meteors, in this paradise-like abandoned simplicity and, as we think, leaves his knowledge to the only one among the survivors - his little teenage granddaughter, a little girl. This easy-to-tell story, however, is actually developed through a surrealistic symbolic reinterpretation of a difficult-to-explain artistic aesthetic: Avto Makharadze's grandfather takes on the burden of wisdom buried in the earth, just as the film's dynamics intensify the feeling of the blue forest and the dusty book enveloped in clouds, as perceived by Mariam Karkashadze. The relationship between the granddaughter and the grandfather is a micromodel of the non-existent and existentialism in a new dimension, which does not remind us of anything, it does not remind us, it evokes associations but only the authentic, characteristic of him, of his artistic intensity, as if seen in Avto Makharadze's petrified, heavy gaze, and this beautiful world, turned into a tomb, is warmed with heavy and unnaturally great love too: once a guardian of wisdom, once close to the world, once a protector of human existence and joy.<\/p>

The walking silhouette leaves even the footprint of the old man, seemingly dull and weak. The burden of the forest and space also looks like lead. According to Sartre's existentialism, existence with his doctrine precedes the being - if anywhere it is possible to fully justify such a form of seeing and reflecting essence from aesthetic sensation, such a philosophical structure, then it is really Avto Makharadze\u2019s hero locked in such a huge space of the observatory, speaking with a mysterious and concrete, gray, rattling and banging, and his imaginary-realistic little granddaughter, who precedes her own being with the existence of life.<\/p>

Nothing has breathed in the great old corridors for a long time, and even the air has its own color - the color of existence. On the creaking line of the cable car, the streaks of light carry transparent tones. Both sunny and gray. In the semi-dark interior, a chair by an iron bed bears the mark of a human presence, and this is enough for us to get ready - to understand how important the long, slowly moving shots are, the episode where the grandfather carefully wraps the remaining books in dark papers, keeps them away, knowing that this is existence \u2013 that of Sartre, the only way that can surpass existence and consequently, save souls doomed to eternal ignorance.<\/p>

These episodes especially attract attention because when the grandfather dies, whose dramatic identification with this hero is still the main thing, his departure from the viewer's feelings, the same circle, the same truth comes to life. The grandfather dies - he will finally cover his face with a white sheet with a weak but firm hand, telling us that everything that happens is not necessarily presentable. Sometimes the world demands apostasy from us. Goodness and wisdom settle in existence and are not always born together with the being. The granddaughter watches this mysterious act of death through the keyhole - this is the naive expectation of Saint-Exup\u00e9ry's good beginning. Somewhere, where the intangible still awaits, it may be watching us from somewhere, even through a small keyhole. The teenager went away from here a long time ago - tragically, on the verge of catastrophe, against the background of ignorance, non-recognition of existence itself, and yet her double existence turned out to be more important in this unusually interesting micromodel of the universe than she herself, as a living being.<\/p>

\u00a0There is the phenomenon of existence, completely unknowable, weighed down by the lead that came with love and warmth to save knowledge, would be completely powerless if it were not for a character like the mute old man from Avto Makharadze's Georgian rock tale - a hero who, even with his appearance, organically rich texture, says more about the vain doubts of earthly beings than the eloquent characters of countless films created on this topic.<\/p>

It seems that for Mariam Karkashadze, as a director with a dramatic depth of thought, the origin of existence and its phenomenon, as well as in a complex philosophical intersection, say much more, and this is precisely what creates a whole range of surrealistic freedom in her artistic thinking: associations, metaphorical diversity, and at the same time, an open desire to understand existence.<\/p>

It is possible that no one can change not only the form of existence, but even the content itself. Perhaps that is why the wrapped books, shrouded in the wisdom of the observatory, await the metaphorical sign of time - the final character, with a sad gaze and a questioning expression - a film that has a texture that makes the feeling of existence tangible until the being itself appears on the screen... and it comes from the mysterious circle of existence and comes to where a part of its existence will have life.<\/p>

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The tale of the \u201cLittle Prince\u201d used to change so much people\u2019s perception of the dimensions of existing sensations that the burden and tragic consequences of ignorance had no target. To follow this story more simply, the Little Prince\u2019s calm knowledge of people and living beings penetrated the depths of the most desperate, vulnerable fears and seemed to make them vanish when Saint-Exup\u00e9ry\u2019s tale found its way to people. \nThe more often the motif of this tale is repeated and ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1","category-30"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3643,"href":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/3643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfr.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}