Images Were Burning
6.30 min, HD, SD, sound, 2024A reflection on Images of violence, the film strings together excerpts from Medoidze’s writing and archive footage
filmed in the vicinity of Hotel Tbilisi, during the violent Coup in Georgia in 1992.
Revamped as a five-star hotel, the bullet marks are still visible if one looks closely.
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Hail Medea
7.30 min, 4k, sound, 2023Inspired by the artist’s visit to historical cave pharmacy in Southern Georgia, and Roland Barthes’ idea of
language as pharmacopoeia (‘poison on one side, antidote on the other’), the film conjures the figure of
Medea through touch, and upturns popular representations of the goddess.
Selected screenings:
Le Cyclop, Milly-la-Forêt, France
POUSH, Paris, France
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Jackals and Drones, Chronicles of a summer
16 min HD, sound, 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.
Selected screenings:
Sophio Medoidze: Ab-Joy, Serpentine cinema, London, UK
Sophio Medoidze, Jackals and Drones, LUX London, UK
Interseccion, A coruna, Spain
Festival Scope Pro (online)
Writer’s house, Tbilisi, Georgia
E A shared space, Tbilisi, Georgia
Goldsmiths University of London, UK
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Black sea is really Black
6 min HD, sound, 2015‘Whilst the beauty of the Georgian landscape is overwhelming, Medoidze’s taste for the absurd
and the self-reflexivity of her address, draw us in and pull us out at the same time.’
María Palacios Cruz
Selected screenings:
Platform Asia, RCA, Fabrica Gallery and Firstsite, Colchester
Sophio Medoidze, Jackals and Drones, LUX London
Sophio Medoidze, AB-JOY, Serpentine cinema, Peckhamplex, London, UK
Love among the artists +Laure Prouvost, Kunstmueum Luzern, Switzerland
In competition for Best Video, Avanca Film Festival, Portugal
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Andropov’s Ears
7 min HD, sound, 2015A modernist monument in Tbilisi nicknamed Andropov’s Ears has recently been demolished,
to be replaced by the symbol of capitalist prosperity: a shopping mall. Medoidze, who is based in London,
opts out of this double negativity by filming the remnants of Brutalist architecture in London and
her sculpture of the missing monument.
Selected screenings:
Foreman Gallery, Sherbrooke, Canada
Le Cyclop, Paris, France
Hotel Europa, Open Space (Tbilisi Art Fair), Tbilisi, Georgia
SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Georgian Arthouse, B movie cinema, Hamburg, Germany
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Questions and Answers
3.3 min HD, sound, 2012‘This is perhaps most pronounced in ‘Questions and Answers‘, where disparate images and scenes are
rapidly spliced together in an associative logic that disorientates the viewer.
Punctuated only by drumrolls and a cryptic voiceover, the film cuts between figures dancing in the street,
to a man collapsing into the ocean, to a hawk hunting a pigeon in central London.’
TANK Magazine full text
Selected screenings:
Sophio Medoidze, AB-JOY, Serpentine cinema, Peckhamplex
Sergei Parajanov: Reminiscence, CLOSE-UP, London, UK
Art Wall (curated by Wato Tsereteli), CCA Tbilisi, Georgia
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This video is about children and language
8 min Pal video, sound, 2009‘This video is about children and language.
This is the title of this video.
This video is made of 774 words and 3, 527 characters, it will last for 8 minutes.
This video will launch one of the biggest attacks on language that designated nothing and explains nothing.
After, the author of this video will make a confession. Things will get very personal...’
Selected screenings:
Jackals and Drones, LUX London
All that glitters is not an institution, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Sophio Medoidze & Tank.tv, MRA projects space, London, UK
2nd Georgian Film Festival, Riverside studios, London, UK
After Paradjanov: Artists' film and video from Georgia, Arnolfini Bristol, UK
After Paradjanov: Artists film and video from Georgia, Pushkin House, London, UK
22nd Instants Video, A M Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine
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Kleenex
3.24 Pal video, sound, 2007
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Tuscany files
517 min Pal video, sound, 2007Dear friend,
Forgive me for not writing all this time, of course I have not forgotten about you.
The thing is that I have changed a lot since I moved here and if it is true, I have no longer any acquaintances
and do not have to write to anyone, as I am a complete stranger to them. full text
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Learning to speak to my daughter/English dictionary
3.3 min, HD, sound, 2006How to speak to your bilingual daughter when your English is not good?
Sophio Medoidze records the phrases she overheard other mothers say to their children and re-enacts them in her kitchen.
Selected screenings:
Pavilion, Leeds, UK
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Trailers for Unmade Films
1min, HD, 2009The artist reads the fragments from her short fiction over spooling images of Tbilisi suburbs, in her reflection
on the experience of linguistic displacement.
Selected screenings:
Extremely Shorts film festival, Texas, US
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