Movie Details
Original Language:Georgian
Bread Makers
DirectorBidzina Rachvelishvili
10 min
Plot
This short film captures the beauty of a process that has persisted since the Stone Age Sharing one of the recurrent stylistic motifs of the Georgian documentaries shown here an uncanny atmosphere is created by the use of postproduction sound and chiaroscuro lighting In effect the removal of the bread from the oven is witnessed with the same sense of wonder as would greet the appearance of a flying saucer When sticking the dough to the tandoor the baker moves half of his body into this dungeon an image at once frightening and mesmerising Nowhere else has bread been seen like this save perhaps for Night of the Living Bread Kevin S OBrien 1990 But this is hardly a parody here the most essential human foodstuff meets an expressionist sensibility In fact along with Manoel de Oliveiras O Pão also showing this year Khabazebi presents some of the most beautiful images of our daily bread on screen
