Event overview
The Department of Art Public Talks Programme Autumn 2022 welcomes filmmaker Salomé Jashi
Salomé Jashi [Tbilisi, 1981] is a documentary filmmaker and producer from Georgia. She has been attracted to filming micro-environments from the very beginning of her career. Her visual approach is minimalist, poetical, sensitive and rough. Jashi's 'Taming the Garden' [2021] premiered at Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Documentary Competition and Berlinale Forum and was nominated for the European Film Awards. 'Taming the Garden' tracks the surreal uprooting of ancient trees from their Georgian locales.
The opening shot of the film captures a tree as tall as a 15-story building floating on a barge across the vast Black Sea. Its destination lies within a garden miles away, privately owned by a wealthy man whose passion resides in the removal, and subsequent replanting, of trees into his own man-made Eden. With each removal, tensions flare between workers and villagers. Some see financial incentives—new roads, handsome fees—while others angrily mourn the loss of what was assumed an immovable monolith of their town’s collective history and memory. With a steady and shrewdly observant eye, Jashi documents a single man’s power over Earth’s natural gardens: how majestic living artefacts of a country’s identity can so effortlessly become uprooted by individuals with no connection to the nature they now claim as their own.
Jashi's previous film 'The Dazzling Light of Sunset' [2016] was awarded the Main Prize at Visions du Réel’s Regard Neuf Competition. Her earlier work 'Bakhmaro' [2011] was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. All three films were produced in collaboration with Arte's La Lucarne. Her producing work 'How the Room Felt' [2021] premiered at IDFA's main competition. She is a fellow of DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Residence 2020.
Artist's website: https://www.salomejashi.com/
This talk will be streamed live into the lecture theatre, for guests wanting to watch online please join: https://gold-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91987683130
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 23 Nov 2022 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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