Jackals and Drones, Chronicles of a summer
ზაფხულის ქრონიკები
16 min HD, color with sound, Georgia/UK, 2016 - 2018A Belgian actress arrives in Tbilisi airport to travel to the medieval cave monastery of Vardzia. Her car journey with two non-professional actors drives the narrative forward, while Medoidze’s camera records their encounters with jackals, drones and the Orthodox monks, amongst others. Parallel to the journey, a mythopoetic personage resembling Medea roams the caves, scorning our obsession with progress and technology.
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Selected screenings:
AB-Joy: Sophio Medoidze, Serpentine cinema, Peckhamplex
LUX, London
Interseccion, A coruna, Spain
Festival scope pro (online)
Writer’s house, Tbilisi
EA shared space, Tbilisi
Goldsmiths college