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TEMO RE
Performance
Trailer
Temo's T-shirt reads "San Francisco," a faraway place of longing, and yet his hood is the Georgian capital Tbilisi. He dreams of working as an actor; day in day out however he cruises on his scooter between the picturesque, crumbling beauty of bygone times and many a monstrous prefabricated housing project. A courier meets all kinds of people and isn't always treated kindly, and if he does get an acting assignment, you can guarantee it won’t turn out as planned.
From thousands of individual images, photographer and video artist Anka Gujabidze has composed a multifaceted panorama of a city and its inhabitants. For most of the people, cats, dogs, and city pigeons here, daily survival seems to be just as much a struggle as it is for Temo – adaptation, resilience, and ingenuity are required. From the impression of an overflowing photo album, fluid movement emerges, one with its own creative rhythm, assembled from meticulously composed black-and-white images; would-be snapshots, a precisely observed realism.
Gujabidze has an eye for lighting effects, discovers beauty in junk, and constructs scenes of absurd comedy from individual images.
Text: Susanne Stern
Sat 08.11. I 21:30 I WELTSPIEGEL SAAL 2 I original version with English subtitles (pre-film) | original version with English and German subtitles
Sun 09.11. I 14:30 I WELTSPIEGEL SAAL 3 Ioriginal version with English subtitles (pre-film) | original version with English and German subtitles
(pre-film: MAGDALENA HAUSEN: FROZEN TIME)
Temo rekhviashvili,Salome Asatiani, Anka gu
Tamta mandzulasvhili, Anka Gujabidze
Anka Gujabidze
Robert Schumann,Jean-Philippe Rameau
Anka Gujabidze - Anka Gujabidze is a visual artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Prior to moving into filmmaking recently, Anka worked as a professional photographer for 17 years, specialising in documentary, conceptual and portrait photos. In 2024, Anka completed her first film, “Temo Re”, for which she adopted the format of a photo montage, “Temo Re” is comprised entirely of black-and-white photographs. The film tells a poignant story of a poverty-stricken actor, who, in order to make a living, has to work as a delivery man, and is gradually driven to physical and mental breakdown, due to exhaustion and the harsh inequalities he continually encounters on the streets of Georgia’s capital. In previous years, Anka Gujabidze authored several projects, including “Death to Mosquitoes During Summer Days” (2019), a candid and elegiac photo series depicting life in Georgia’s remote, rural and urban areas, “You Got It Today” (2020), which, with photos and texts, aimed at capturing the COVID pandemic and isolation through women’s eyes, “Bianka” (2015), a multimedia portrait of a transgender woman living a defiant life in the face of societal homophobia and “What the Hell Brought You Here?” (2013), a photo series depicting a Georgian town which, in Soviet times, boomed as an industrial centre, but has turned into a decaying and eerie space.
