A Week Within Otar Ioseliani's World: 2016 International Film Festival in Georgia

The Georgian National Museum is holding an exhibition called A Week Within Otar Ioseliani’s World as part of the 2016 International Film Festival in Georgia (Kinovino). The exhibition of Georgian film maker and director, Otar Ioseliani, will be held from 28 November to 4 December 2016 in the Simon Janashia Museum within the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia.

The exhibit coincides with the 50th anniversary of Ioseliani’s film ‘Falling Leaves’ (‘Chute des feuilles’ / ‘Giorgobistve’) made in 1966. The storyboard for the film is displayed. A storyboard is the series of graphic illustrations that show the sequence of a film (the pre-visualization of the movie).

The exhibition also showcases Ioseliani’s 50 drawings from his private collection that have never been exhibited before – all hand-illustrated by Otar Ioseliani.

Otar Ioseliani (1934-) is a Georgian-French film maker, born in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. His most recent film is the 2015 ‘Winter Song’ (‘Chant d’hiver’).

http://museum.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=69&info_id=14199

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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