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Kote Mikaberidze | Soso Dumbadze (Tbilisi / Cologne), Nino Dzandzava (Tbilisi)

Exhibition and book presentation at National Archives of Georgia, Tbilisi

2017 | 06 October – 20 October | Daily, except Monday, 10:00-20:00


National Archives of Georgia
Exhibition Pavilion
1, Vazha-Pshavela Ave. / 40, Pekini Ave.
Tbilisi, Georgia


Publishers and Curators – Soso Dumbadze (Tbilisi / Cologne), Nino Dzandzava (Tbilisi)
Organizer – Sa.Ga. Publishing for Society and the National Archives of Georgia


Partners – Archil Gelovani's Private Archive; Gia Gersamia's Private Archive; Center for Contemporary Art – Tbilisi; Levan Mekhuzla's Private Archive; Lenfilm Information and Archival Division (St. Petersburg); Gosfilmofond of Russia (Moscow); Russian State Library (Moscow); National Archives of Georgia; Georgian National Film Center; State Museum of Theater, Music, Cinema and Choreography; Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia; Manana Sisauri's Private Archive; Digital Records of the Public Library; Maya and Gela Mikaberidze's Private Archive; Ketevan Tsuladze's Private Archive.

The presentation of Kote Mikaberidze, a book published by the Sa.Ga. Publishing for Society, will be held on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the Georgian filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, dubbing director and painter Konstantine (Kote) Mikaberidze (1896-1973).

The exhibition will feature photos and written materials as well as Kote Mikaberidze's paintings and graphic works, part of which will be exhibited publicly for the first time.

Visitors will have an opportunity to see all the surviving and available films made by Kote Mikaberidze, such as Chemi Bebia (My Grandmother) (1929), Hasani (Hassan) (1932), Kajeti (1936) ), Porposti (Outpost) (1941), Albanetis Delegatsia Sakartveloshi (The Albanian Delegation in Georgia) (1952) and others. The films will be shown on monitors at the exhibition hall.

The book is the first substantial monograph about the director. It includes unique documents from 14 different archives pertaining to Kote Mikaberidze's art and biography. Chapter Repression 1957-1959 presents previously unpublished and unknown documents about the arrest and trial of Mikaberidze.

Date
Event | Person
Description
2024, 30.09.-04.10.
Matthias Müller – Revisitations. German contemporary experimental film | Matthias Müller (Cologne)
Film seminar at Goethe Institute Georgia, Tbilisi
2023, 23.-25.10.
The Marginal Cinema | Karina Karaeva (Paris)
Film seminar at the French Institute Georgia, Tbilisi
2022, 07.-10.11.
Editing Solutions – What happened to classic montage patterns and editing schemes? | Hans Beller (Ludwigsburg)
Film seminar at Goethe Institute and Front-Line Club, Tbilisi
2021, 05.10.
Editing and montage – Between Eros and Thanatos | Hans Beller (Ludwigsburg)
Online lecture for students of the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, Tbilisi
2019, 24. + 25.11.
Georgian film avant-garde – the unknown continent | Soso Dumbadze (Tbilisi / Cologne), Thomas Tode (Hamburg)
Compact retrospective of Kote Mikaberidze's films, and a book presentation »Kote Mikaberidze« at cinema »Metropolis«, Hamburg
2019, 06.04.
Konstantin Mikaberidze | Soso Dumbadze (Tbilisi / Cologne)
Lecture at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2018, 10.10.
Kote Mikaberidze | Soso Dumbadze (Tbilisi / Cologne), Nino Dzandzava (Tbilisi), Thomas Tode (Hamburg)
Book presentations at Frankfurt Book Fair and German Film Museum, Frankfurt am Main
2018, 04.10.
Metamorphoses as Value. Eisenstein's »Capital« Project | Elena Vogman (Berlin)
Lecture at Ilia State University, Tbilisi
2017, 06.-20.11.
Kote Mikaberidze | Soso Dumbadze (Tbilisi / Cologne), Nino Dzandzava (Tbilisi)
Exhibition and book presentation at National Archives of Georgia, Tbilisi
2015, 05.-07.10.
Kino Avant-Garde | Thomas Tode (Hamburg)
Seminar at Tumo Center for Creative Technologies, Yerevan
2015, 28.09.-02.10.
Political Essay Film. Topical cinematic forms of innovative narrative in France and Germany | Thomas Tode (Hamburg)
Seminar at Goethe Institute Georgia, Tbilisi
2013, 30.09.-04.10.
Film Avant-Garde and Politics. A Dialogue between Soviet and German Film Avant-Garde | Thomas Tode (Hamburg)
Seminar at Goethe Institute Georgia, Tbilisi
2013, 08.10.
German Gogitidze's »From the Past of Georgian Cinema« | Soso Dumbadze (Tbilisi / Cologne), Nino Dzandzava (Tbilisi)
Book Presentation at Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia, Tbilisi
2008
Tips and Tricks: How to Deal With ‘Crazy-Ness’? | Soso Dumbadze (Tbilisi / Cologne)
Nationwide campaign in Georgia
2008, 14.05.
Rezo Kveselava's »Memories on Georgian Filmmakers« | Rezo Kveselava (Tbilisi), Soso Dumbadze (Tbilisi / Cologne)
Book Presentation at Cafe Moulin Electrique, Tbilisi
2007, 07.-09.05.
Walter Benjamin's Thought and his Relevance. Media – Culture – Society | Devi Dumbadze (New York), Tengiz Iremadze (Tbilisi), Christoph Hesse (Berlin)
Seminar-workshop at Goethe Institute Georgia, Tbilisi
2006, 18.-21.09., 29.09.
Aspects of Film Montage | Hans Beller (Ludwigsburg)
Workshop at Goethe Institute Georgia, Tbilisi