Projects
This short film is a dream seen by the children displaced during the August war 2008 in Georgia. Destroyed music school in the Gldani district of Tbilisi is their temporary shelter. Here we have met Madonna with her newborn child. We did not know then what was her name, she just looked like a Madonna, holding her baby boy tight in her arms. Neither we knew we would meet her again in 10 years time, on the occupation line.
The film follows the writer Lasha Bugadze on his journey to discover the real story and nowadays reality of the Georgian Chateau in Leuville-sur-Orge, France, where Georgian government in exile used to live from 1924. This TV documentary was produced for the Broadcasting company IMEDI TV, executive producer Irakli Imnaishvili.
film by Nino Orjonikidze, Vano Arsenishvili
In a search of a better life a 61 years old Kakhetian peasant Lamzo illegally crossed the European border and ended up in the asylum camp, where hundreds of Georgians end their European "journey". What happens in the largest refugee camp in Austria and who are the nowadays "political" migrants? This is the film about the reality of Georgian's European dream.
"Vanishing Houses" /webproject 2014 /
by Nino orjonikidze / Vano Arsenishvili
Production: Artefact production
Vanishing Houses is an ongoing multimedia Project in development.
It is not an ethnographic study, just an attempt to capture artifacts of vanishing culture. Fascinated by the simplicity and sense of style of rural houses in western Georgia, we wanted to re-create that atmosphere through still and moving images, through sound. It is a journey into a vanishing world we want to experience in our own way.
"Speechless" /Documentary 12’ 2009/
film by Salome Jashi
Production: Artefact production/Sakdoc film
The 2008 Georgian War resulted in the deaths of several hundred people and expulsion of tens of thousands from South Ossetia. Is there a way to show the tragedy of families that lost their loved ones, thousands of people forced to leave their homes, soldiers doing the fighting, and children who cannot comprehend the situation? Salome Jashi answers this question in a way that leaves few apathetic, though the horrors of war are never visible on the screen. Her short film is based on an interesting formula of making the audience witness to a tragedy it never sees.
"When clocks stop" /Documentary 12’ 2009/
film by Tiko Nachkebia
Production: Artefact production/Sakdoc film
What curse the building of the Georgian Public Service Broadcasting bears while none of the changes can affect it?
A lyrical portrait of the state institution resistant to new tendencies and still rolling on Soviet tracks.
The project is a social experiment, based on a reality show principles. The Member of Georgian Parliament becomes a mother of four in a rural area of Georgia. Her means for living are as tiny as the real income of the family.
6 Series of TV Docs (25' each) on human rights abuses in Georgia 2002-2003 (for Internews Georgia)
"Trace" /2002/
The documentary covers the facts of torture in the places of preliminary detention in Post Soviet Georgia. It shows how much torture influences mental and physical health of detainees. Together with the victims of torture, psychotherapist reveals the new methods of torture and the level of influence on a mental health of victims and their relatives. Expert-criminalist unveils the new methods and effects of so called "traceless" torture. According to the stories told by two victims, 12-hour period of detention has totally ruined their mental and physical health.
"Verge" /2002/
This is a film about intolerance and aggression on religious grounds. It covers the 5 year period of discrimination from the end of 20th century, using the rich archive material. The story is told from the perspective of representatives of different religious confessions.
"Post Soviet Georgia"/2003
What kind of censorship exists in the 21st century Georgia? Protagonists are victims of the contemporary Georgian practice, though the censors are mostly ordinary citizens.
"Landscape in the mist" /2003
What we see in the film is the wonderful Svanetian landscape, but what we hear from residents of the beautiful place called Lentekhi is an environmental disaster. Locals claim that a waste from the abandoned chemical factory continues to pollute the area. Film follows and explores several cases of environmental pollution in different areas of the country.
"X days in hauptwacht"/2003
Two soldiers are kept in the hauptwacht for disciplinary errors. The unique building inherited from the Soviet past is the piece of the ruined regime, but the unlawful detention of soldiers is still the present reality. Conditions of living in a Hauptwach are not different from a prison, but still one does not need a court decision to be held there.
"The Police Academy"/2003
The film depicts a day in a life of a future policemen - 17 years old boys and girls, already wearing a police uniform. Students of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are sharing motives of their professional choice, their perception of human rights and their own role in defending these rights.