Project Detail

Let us Flow

Name: Let us Flow
Director: Sophio Medoidze
Genre: Experimental, Human Rights, Woman Director
Released: 2022
Duration: 63 min

Synopsis

The isolated mountainous region of Tusheti, in Northeast Georgia, is the site for a reflection on the importance of ritual, the maintenance of community ties, and how modernisation and migration are transforming rural landscapes. Shot over several years, Let Us Flow uses inovative audio-visual techniques to make visible the symbolic and physical division of sacred spaces within the community and offers a nuanced perspective on a culture where ancestral shrines are only accessible to men.
In a verdant mountainous region of Georgia, tradition and modernity intertwine. Carrying on the traditions of their ancestors, the men in the film race on horseback down mountains and across wide, expansive valleys in a performance of masculinity. The filmmaker states, “As the film progresses it becomes a film about distance: the twenty meter distance the Tushetian women have to observe from their shrines, the distance between me and my protagonists, between languages and translation.” Medoidze is never seen in front of the camera, made visible only through her voice. Yet even with this distance between her and her subjects the film, as shot from her perspective, makes for a truly immersive piece of observational filmmaking.

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Year: 2022
Type of project: Features
Running time: 63 min
Format: 4K video
Director: Sophio Medoidze 1st Feature
Producer: Sophio Medoidze
Co-Producer: Anna Dziapshipa
Executive Producer: Sophio Medoidze
Editor: Sophio Medoidze
Director of Photography: Sophio Medoidze, Goga Devdariani
Sound: Ivane Gvaradze
Composer: Reso Kiknadze

Genre

Experimental Human Rights Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

SakDoc

Sophio Medoidze

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