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A Must See Film/À Voir Absolument: Nino Kirtadze’s Chechen Lullaby/Il Était une Fois la Tchétchénie de Nino Kirtadze

by Pier Marton | Sep 14, 2010 | Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Film, KeyFilm, Photo, Spectacle, Wars, Women

One excerpt on YouTube:

A masterpiece, with Stanley Greene, Robert Parsons, Andreï Babitski, Petra Prokhatskova and Sophie Shihab.
Will chill your desire to see “more images”.
In French/en Français:

Il était une fois la tchétchénie 1/5
AND in English Chechen lullaby on Nino Kirtadze’s Channel on Vimeo.
[UPDATE MARCH 2015]
Manon Loizeau retourne en Tchétchénie 20 ans plus tard.
Manon Loizeau returns to Chechnya 20 years later.

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus