Scene from the film Taming the Garden
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Taming the Garden

Direction
Year 
2021
Country
  • Georgia
  • Switzerland
Duration
86min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

The opening shot of filmmaker Salome Jashi’s striking environmental tale captures a tree as tall as a 15-story building floating on a barge across the vast Black Sea. Its destination lies within a garden countless miles away, privately owned by a wealthy and anonymous man whose passion resides in the removal, and subsequent replanting, of foreign trees into his own man-made Eden.

With astonishing cinematic style, Taming the Garden tracks the surreal uprooting of ancient trees from their Georgian locales. With each removal, tensions flare between workers and villagers. Some see financial incentives – new roads, handsome fees – while others angrily mourn the loss of what was assumed an immovable monolith of their town’s collective history and memory. With a steady and shrewdly observant eye, Jashi documents a single man’s power over Earth’s natural gardens: how majestic living artifacts of a country’s identity can so effortlessly become uprooted by individuals with no connection to the nature they now claim as their own.

Details

  • Original title
    Taming the Garden
  • Direction
  • DOP
    Goga Devdariani, Salomé Jashi
  • Editing
    Chris Wright
  • Music
    Celia Stroom
  • Sound
    Philippe Ciompi
  • Duration
    86 min (46-90 min.)
  • Year
    2021
  • Country
    • Georgia
    • Switzerland
  • Colour
    • Colour
  • Distribution

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