Événement

The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear

Jul 19 - Jul 25

(Tinatin Gurchiani, Georgia, 2012, Blu-ray, 101 min)

U.S. premiere!

Friday, Jul 19 at 07:00PM
Friday, Jul 19 at 09:00PM
Saturday, Jul 20 at 07:00PM
Saturday, Jul 20 at 09:00PM
Sunday, Jul 21 at 07:00PM
Sunday, Jul 21 at 09:00PM
Monday, Jul 22 at 07:00PM
Monday, Jul 22 at 09:00PM
Tuesday, Jul 23 at 07:00PM
Tuesday, Jul 23 at 09:00PM
Wednesday, Jul 24 at 07:00PM
Wednesday, Jul 24 at 09:00PM
Thursday, Jul 25 at 09:00PM

A Georgian director wants to make a film about growing up in her home country, and 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, looking for commonalities across social and ethnic lines.

The boys and girls who respond to the call are radically different from one another, as are their personal reasons for auditioning. Some want to 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.