My Grandmother (Mikaberidze, 1929): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.10pm
This screening is part of the Censored to Restored season (details here) at BFI and will be preceded by an extended season intro by season curator Giulia Saccogna.This silent film classic will have a live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne.
BFI introduction:
An incompetent employee is fired and searches desperately for a
‘grandmother’ – an influential benefactor – to help him get his job
back. While his wife is busy in a frenzy of bourgeois living, the man’s
quest reveals a Kafkaesque state corporation run by lazy bureaucrats.
This anarchic political satire from Georgia is a dizzyingly entertaining
feature debut, displaying a virtuoso use of experimental techniques.
For almost five decades it was banned domestically for its attack on
corruption and scathing critique of bureaucracy.
Here (and above) is a short montaage from the film.
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