TAMING THE GARDEN
by Salomé Jashi
synopsis
A powerful man, who is also the former prime minister of Georgia, has developed an exquisite hobby. He collects century old trees along Georgia’s coastline. He commissions his men to uproot them and bring them to his private garden. Some of these trees are as tall as 15-floor-buildings. And in order to transplant a tree of such dimensions some other trees are chopped down, electric cables are shifted and new roads are paved through mandarin plantations.The film moves the concept of uprooting from its metaphorical meaning into an oppressive, tangible and yet surreal reality.
| international title: | Taming the Garden |
| original title: | Taming the Garden |
| working title: | Trees Floating |
| country: | Switzerland, Germany, Georgia |
| sales agent: | Syndicado Film Sales (CA) |
| year: | 2021 |
| genre: | documentary |
| directed by: | Salomé Jashi |
| film run: | 86' |
| screenplay: | Salomé Jashi |
| cinematography by: | Salomé Jashi, Goga Devdariani |
| film editing: | Chris Wright |
| music: | Celia Stroom |
| producer: | Vadim Jendreyko, Erik Winkler, Martin Roelly, Salomé Jashi |
| production: | Mira Film, SRF - Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, ARTE GEIE, Radio Bremen, Sakdoc |
| backing: | Federal Office of Culture Switzerland (FOC) (CH), Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (DE), Eurimages, Fachausschuss Film und Medienkunst BS/ BL (DE), Georgian National Film Center (GE), IDFA Bertha Fund (NL), Grenzgänger Program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung / Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (DE), Succès Passage Antenne (CH), HEAD geneve (CH), Nipkow Scholarship (DE), DAAD Artists-in-Berlin (DE) |
