#Sapovnela

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#flowers #film quotes #sapovnela #otar iosselani #georgian cinema #cinema #caucasus

[vidioten]

Sapovnela (1959), Otar Iosseliani.

#Otar Iosseliani #Sapovnela

[ckth]

See [PODCAST] link in bio: With friend of the program, aka the ever-talented and effervescent, @bossuponem: A hustling business person, a working performance artist — and a compassionate community leader. Above all, Leila is a producer of vital creative energy. And being that she’s a former freestyle skier, it’s apt that Leila approaches the creative process with zero fear. Leila’s recent show, Sapovnela, with her grandfather and renowned photographer / artist, Alden Spilman, presented abstract photographic prints and experimental video forming a conversation around the reflection and absorption of light and color — as well abstraction in photography and film. Sapovnela opened at the @11newelgallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on May 6. The Newel Gallery is located at 11 Newel, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Enjoy #ckth #cantknockthehustle #akackth #ecosidesiomemena #admeliora #credoquiaabsurdum #carpediem #aldenspilman #11newelgallery #beengoingonforyearsbill #agequodagis #sapovnela #leilaspilman #tmc (at Dayton, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgUUl4xrxae/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

sapovnela means 'the flower that nobody can find'

Joseph Mazzinghi, Ye Shepherds Tell Me // John Singer Sargent, Carnation Lily Lily Rose // Hayley Williams, Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris // The Last Unicorn (1982) dir. Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Bass // Hayley Williams, Watch Me While I Bloom // Barry Windsor Smith, Beguiled

#unfortunately I do not know georgian so all I can know of that short film is that one bit that's all over the internet in english #but ough yeah. flowers. idk. #Lu rambles #web weaving

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sapovnela

[visualpoett]

Sapovnela (Otar Iosseliani, 1959)

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Otar Iosseliani- “Sapovnela”, 1959

[miuluna]

Sapovnela means "the flower

that nobody can find".

[inapat16]

Soviet union films that you should check out

Sapovnela - საპოვნელა (Song about a Flower) 

The translation of the title is not very accurate. Actually, "sapovnela" means  "the flower that nobody can find". The film was directed by Otar Iosseliani, in 1959, in Georgia. This is a 17- min shortcut about a 98 year old gardener, Mika Mamulashvili, who is creating floral compositions.

"Sapovnela is not a documentary, but a story about eternal nature, out of time." - Julien Morvan www.perestroikino.fr 

The first part of the film is a presentation of Mika and his garden. Because of censorship, and the regime's hold on the film industry, a voice over has been added to the editing to direct the viewer’s gaze onto the images. Otar Iosseliani was forbidding to subtitle this added voice over during screenings since he strongly disagrees with its purpose. The sound of the film was originally to be only composed of traditional Georgian songs and an arrangement of Chopin’s Polonaises. Despite the imposed voice over, Otar Iosseliani created an early eco-friendly fable. Indeed, the main characters of this film are flowers. In this first half of the film, there is a flower choreography set in a greenhouse that emphasizes nature’s freedom. As a virtuoso, Otar Iosseliani creates a collage such as Mika’s: it’s not flowers on paper but on film, which will get to be preserved for eternity, just like for an herbarium. 

The second part of the film is devoted to the effects of industrialization. The parallel is easily drawn between the oppression on nature and the oppression on people by the soviet regime. Just like there are rebels against the regime, there are wild grasses that point through the concrete applied by the bulldozer. The wild grass is also the director, who decides to take sides against the regime. He will later flee the USSR to settle in France where he still lives today. The idea is to illustrate the shift between to eras: the handcrafted one and the industrial one. Mika is one of the last living persons of this old era and embodies that idea that nature should be worked with hands. The new era is here depicted as a distancing between man and nature, as if the dawn was doomed and that the flowers were singing one last time before dying, their swansong. 

The interest of this film lies in its way to develop poetry on screen. In this film, poetry isn’t made of words but of images and sounds. It is that choir of flowers that succeeds to a day for night, and that precedes the chaos of industrialization.  That exact moment crystalizes the idea that there is something that should remain eternal within this primal state of nature. Even though men tried to handle it, by flower compositions, gardens or urbanization, there will always remain something that is beyond men’s reach. It is characterized by the shot of grass growing through the concrete, or through the stone wall. So, there is a flower that nobody can find, and no matter what we do to find it and control it, it will always be free and out of reach.  

Link to watch the film: https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/70507-sapovnela-otar-iosseliani-1959/ 

J-A Lenourichel

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Sapovnela (Otar Iosseliani, 1959)

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solace

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See [PODCAST] link in bio: With friend of the program, aka the ever-talented and effervescent, @bossuponem: A hustling business person, a working performance artist — and a compassionate community leader. Above all, Leila is a producer of vital creative energy. And being that she’s a former freestyle skier, it’s apt that Leila approaches the creative process with zero fear. Leila’s recent show, Sapovnela, with her grandfather and renowned photographer / artist, Alden Spilman, presented abstract photographic prints and experimental video forming a conversation around the reflection and absorption of light and color — as well abstraction in photography and film. Sapovnela opened at the @11newelgallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on May 6. The Newel Gallery is located at 11 Newel, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Enjoy #ckth #cantknockthehustle #akackth #ecosidesiomemena #admeliora #credoquiaabsurdum #carpediem #aldenspilman #11newelgallery #beengoingonforyearsbill #agequodagis #sapovnela #leilaspilman #tmc (at Dayton, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf4hOy5u6ln/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[la-cinefila]

Sapovnela (საპოვნელა), 1959.

Dir. Otar Iosseliani.

#Sapovnela #Otar Iosseliani #film #movie #cinema

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#Sapovnela

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Sapovnela (1959) directed by Otar Iosseliani

#sapovnela #otar iosseliani #georgia