EIN KÜNSTLER, EINE STADT, EIN JAHRHUNDERT
HOMMAGE SERGEJ PARADSCHANOW 1924-1990

Exibition and Film Event:
Cologne / Filmforum Museum Ludwig / Projektraum R33 / 18. / 19. / 20 and 23.06. 2010

Sergei Parajanov (1924-1990). The artist who mostly lived and worked in Georgia and most of whose films are depicting the idiosyncratic history and epos of the Caucasus, created a highly stylised world of fairy tales and legends, emerging as an alternative reality to the communist ideology in art. Parajanov´s works hover on the verge of dream and reality with sumptuous oriental-flavored opulence capturing the last remnants of the particular culture reigning in the region in the beginning of the last century and before. This particular period and some of the leading Georgian and Armenian actors featuring in his films have already long ceased to exist with the onslaught of modernity. Lily Khositashvili “Parajanov, Sheep and Women at Berlin International Film Festival” “Georgia Today” ” issue 345 / Tbilisi Georgia

Parajanov´s visionary films, such as “The Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, “Sayat-Nova” and “The Legend of Suram Fortress” earned him international acclaim and led to lifelong persecution by the Soviet regime.

PASSION AND UTOPIA

Exhibition and Film Event
In development

LOCATION GEORGIEN

Foto Exhibition and Film Event.

The exhibition “Location: Georgien” presents photographs shot by German directors, photographers and journalists during their visits to Georgia. The exibition consisting of more than 100 exhibits was shown in Cologne, Berlin and in Tbilisi.

The idea of the exhibition is expressed in its title “location: Georgien”: it is about one place in the world – Georgia, in a cinematographic sense. Different visions of German artists describe specific aspects of the country from specific viewpoints. The exhibition is an attempt to comment on an affluent Georgian cultural phenomenon. What is Georgia and the Caucasus for the European perception? What does the Western civilization mean for Georgia today? Do Georgians admit and regret their mistakes or still blame someone else for everything? These are some of the questions that the authors of the works represented at the exhibition try to answer.

Link to the project Web-site: locationgeorgien

MADE IN GERMANY

Section of German films at the Tbilisi International Film Festival. This is a noncomercial cultural event. This event also includes master classes and seminars for young filmmakers. The organizers also aim to widen the cultural relationship between the Caucasus and Germany and develop other film projects in the Georgia. Supported by Goethe Institut Georgien, German Film, BMW Group and Wella.

Link to the web-site: www.tbilisifilmfestival.ge

Link MEDEA FILM PRODUCTION SERVICE / Website under construction

Georgian-German film production service company with headquaters in Tbilisi.