Wheelchair accessible, English subtitling
Klassiki and Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival are proud to present a screening of Salt for Svanetia (1930), an early silent masterpiece by the legendary Georgian director Mikhail Kalatozov, with a newly commissioned score written and performed by Georgian composer and singer Liza Kalandadze. While Dziga Vertov’s and Esfir Shub’s work may be better known in the West, Salt for Svanetia represents a unique example of Soviet cinematic avant-garde, crossing the genre between documentary, decolonial expression and state propaganda. A riotous experiment in camera technique, editing, and the use of non-professional actors, and an invaluable document in the history of cinema and/in the Soviet Union, this complex film will be screened with a world-premiere score, performed in person.
This film can also be watched online (Sep 27 - Oct 13) thanks to our partner Klassiki.
Content notes: Depictions of animal violence, violence, grief, nudity, death (including infant death), state oppression, poverty, and hardship.
Access notes: Black and white cinematography, strobing, flashing lights during some sequences, silent film, intertitles (in Russian).
Curated by our partner Klassiki and Misha Yakovlev