Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
There are no Hollywood endings here. There's just the truth, which Gurchiani has proved she's committed to capturing.
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
A filmmaker puts out a casting call for young adults, aged 15 to 23. The director wants to make a film about growing up in her home country, Georgia, and find commonalities across social and ethnic lines. She travels through cities and villages interviewing the candidates who responded and filming their daily lives.
The boys and girls who responded to the call are radically different from one another, as are their personal reasons for auditioning. Some want 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.
"Mixing metanarrative with heightened visual aesthetics, THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR intuitively penetrates individual lives to conjure a richly layered, indelible portrait of a society, brilliantly becoming more than the sum of its parts." —Sundance Film Festival
"Tinatin Gurchiani's accomplished first feature THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR offers an impressionistic, somewhat poetical view of current life in her native former Soviet territory...ample human interest and handsome lensing." —Dennis Harvey, Variety
Winner of the Directing Award for World Cinema ~ Documentary at Sundance 2013.
The boys and girls who responded to the call are radically different from one another, as are their personal reasons for auditioning. Some want 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.
"Mixing metanarrative with heightened visual aesthetics, THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR intuitively penetrates individual lives to conjure a richly layered, indelible portrait of a society, brilliantly becoming more than the sum of its parts." —Sundance Film Festival
"Tinatin Gurchiani's accomplished first feature THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR offers an impressionistic, somewhat poetical view of current life in her native former Soviet territory...ample human interest and handsome lensing." —Dennis Harvey, Variety
Winner of the Directing Award for World Cinema ~ Documentary at Sundance 2013.
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
101
Language
Georgian
Director
Tinatin Gurchiani
Awards:
Winner, Best Director ~ World Cinema: Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Standing before a concrete wall washed in peeling blue paint, the boy is shy but expectant. “What is your biggest dream?” the filmmaker Tinatin Gurchiani asks him, her voice gently prodding. The boy would like to be an actor, but the question is a Trojan horse. Answering it, he soon finds that more ...
Played at
Lumiere Music Hall 8.23.13 - 8.29.13
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