“When we think about characters in cinema, it’s seductive to have these big external conflicts that you can follow, to talk about the bigger ideas or ideologies. But for me, it’s more interesting to talk about internal conflict,” Kulumbegashvili tells me over Zoom call. Where Kulumbegashvili could’ve focused on the high-stakes action of the extremist group, or followed David on his mission to build a new prayer house, she instead chooses to focus on Yana, who spends most of the film confined to the areas around her home.
A claustrophobic 1:33 frame is used to amplify her isolation, quite literally boxing her off from the action taking place around her. Sometimes this is paired with off-camera dialogue, or fixed camera positions in which the relevant action can be happening very far away. Locked in its rectangular grip, you find yourself caught in the crossfire between anticipating what’s outside the frame and worrying for the woman inside it.
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Inside the viewfinder of a camera lies an entire world. Few films are as acutely aware of this fact as
Beginning, Georgia’s official entry into this year’s Oscars race and the feature debut of director Déa Kulumbegashvili. (It was also the recipient of high-profile awards at the San Sebastián and Toronto international film festivals.) Shot in a claustrophobic 1:33:1 aspect ratio, Kulumbegashvili’s film thoughtfully utilizes not only the space within the frame but also what lies just beyond it to transport the viewer into its protagonist’s fragile mental state. Amid moments of extreme stillness, violence crouches just out of sight, waiting for the characters and the audience to let down their guard.
Beginning by Dea Kolumbegashvili
TBILISI: Georgia was strongly affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, which shut down cinemas and film production for most of 2020, but Georgian films received new awards at international festivals. Georgian cinema days and retrospectives were held in Brussels, Tallinn, Split and Lisbon, and Georgia was the Focus Country at the 2020 Trento Film Festival.
Hundreds of films made from 1921 to 1991 are to be returned to Georgia under a deal signed with the film archives of the Russian Federation in 2016. The Georgian National Film Center (GNFC) declared 2020 the year of the 1920s cinema. Despite the epidemic situation, eight films from the 1920s brought from the Russian film archives Gosfilmofond were restored, in cooperation with the National Archives.
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