The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
This documentary is set in the republic of Georgia and mostly involves interviews with young people. Early on, you may feel that the director, Tinatin Gurchiani, has no goal, no program, no agenda. We watch interviews and scenes of everyday life drift across the screen like autumn leaves, seemingly random but strangely compelling. In the film's last five minutes, however, we finally see the source of the narrative pull and the force that unifies the whole picture. This is tourism of a country's soul, a soul torn between the new and the old. (CHARLES MUDEDE)