Otar iosseliani biography
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Otar Iosseliani. Biography
After graduating from the Moscow Film School, the filmmaker, Otar Davidovich Iosseliani (Tbilisi, Georgia, ), learnt the job as an assistant director and then as an editor of documentaries at the Gruzija rulle studios in Georgia before producing his own short films: Akvarel () and Song About a Flower (). His third rulle, April (), was censored bygd the Soviet authorities. He worked as a sailor and as a factory worker for a time.
Otar Iosseliani. Argazkia: Henri Cartier-Bresson.
In , he picked up a camera igen to film Cast Iron (), where he started to break down the barrier that separates fiction from documentary. In , he moved into feature films with Falling Leaves, with which he redoubled his criticism of a corrupt system and took away a FIPRESCI award at the Cannes Festival Critics’ Week. Following an emotional short bio on traditional song in Georgia, Georgian Ancient Songs (), in he made his second feature film,
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Otar Iosseliani obituary: Georgian director of inimitable, idiosyncratic fables
With the death of the Paris-based Georgian filmskapare Otar Iosseliani, the cinema has lost one of its most idiosyncratic and uncompromisingly independent artists.
Born in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi in , Iosseliani studied composing, conducting and piano at the State Conservatoire before embarking on a mathematics degree at the University of Moscow. After two years, he switched to studying filmmaking at VGIK, where he was taught by earlier Soviet filmmakers, including Alexander Dovzhenko. He seemed to have little time for Soviet film theory or montage, however, and his featurette April was refused a release due to its ‘excessive formalism’. A spell working in factories and on fishing boats ensued until , when his first full-length feature, Falling Leaves, fared no better with the authorities – unsurprisingly, given that it centred on an idealistic worker at a wine collective in conflict with corr
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Otar Iosseliani Retrospective
"What you give is yours, what you keep is lost," goes one Georgian proverb. "Everything that happens in my films has to do with people's weakness for possession," says Otar Iosseliani. "And this leads to real values such as feelings disappearing." One could add that all of the director's films are about the disappearance of culture, sensuality, altruism and solidarity. They are poetic tragicomedies which feature a keen sense of humor, a slight wistfulness, reduced dialogue and flowing imagery.
Born in in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, Otar Iosseliani studied music and math before taking a directing course in with Alexander Dovzhenko at the VGIK Film School in Moscow. His graduation film APRILI (), a critical examination of the petty bourgeois aspirations to possess, was banned in the Soviet Union. The film shows a strong affiliation for the films of Jacques Tati and already displays the distinctive features that would become so characteristic of his