The Dazzling Light of Sunset
Art of the Real 2017
April 20 - May 2, 2017
In a provincial Georgian town, an ultra-low-budget local news team covers weddings, politics, and teenage beauty pageants with a remarkable code of professionalism.
Beautifully shot and strangely comic, Salomé Jashi’s documentary follows Dariko and Khaka, an ultra-low-budget local news team in rural Georgia. Whether it’s elections, death announcements, a rare owl, or an oddly stressful fashion show for prepubescent and teenage girls, the pair approach each story without ego and with absolute professionalism, managing every aspect of reporting and production themselves. Through subtle editing choices, Jashi suggests that nothing truly changes in this former Soviet satellite—but allows her subjects to have one last acerbic word on the matter of representation.
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