19 minutes
"Formation of Shadows in Tbilisi" deals with shadow theatre, which was already known in antiquity and which the Georgian theatre and film director Gela Kandelaki approached by reducing the use of puppets to the use of the hands of the actors only. The idea came about as a cost-efficient form of artistic expression in Soviet Georgia. During the period of the Soviet Union, shadow theatre was not recognized, and the director staged the first major performance in Paris in 1990. In Tbilisi Kamen Stoyanov meets Gela Kandelaki in the shadow theatre Budrugana Gagra. We witness a group rehearsal and a conversation with performers who came from the occupied territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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Kamen Stoyanov