Connection Of The Sticks
Theatrical premiere of one of the most visually arresting works of local artists’ cinema in recent years, evoking life in the former Soviet Union.
Shot as a series of stunning vignettes across three countries, Polish-Australian artist Kuba Dorabialski’s extraordinary film conjures the mystique and mysticism of the former Soviet Union. A champion ski jumper collides with ball lightning. Witches conduct wartime sabotage. Ecstatic dance resurrects a revolutionary leader. While party apparatchiks promoted socialism as a technologically advanced, ‘scientific’ project, Dorabialski uncovers a world in thrall to everyday magic and miracles. Narrated in a fictional pan-Slavic language with absurdist flair, Connections of the Sticks transports us to the Eastern Bloc as it lives on in retro-futurist fantasies, diasporic nostalgia and half-remembered family legends. Special Guest
Kuba Dorabialski
Director
Kuba Dorabialski is an artist, writer and educator originally from Wrocław, Poland. He's interested in mysticism, political history and the personal poetic. In 2017, he won the John Fries Award with the video installation Floor Dance of Lenin's Resurrection. In 2019, his work Glasses on My Nosetip won the Open category in the Fisher's Ghost Art Award.
- Program Strand
- FLUX
- Year
- 2021
- Classification
- All Ages
- Country
- Australia
- Language
- In an Invented language, Polish and Russian with English subtitles
- Director
- Kuba Dorabialski
- Producer
- Kuba Dorabialski
- Cast
- Kuba Dorabialski, Bruno Dorabialski, Roland Dorabialski
- Screenwriter
- Kuba Dorabialski
- Cinematographer
- Kuba Dorabialski
- Editor
- Kuba Dorabialski
- Premiere
- World Premiere
- Genre
- Cinephile, Off-Beat, Human Rights, Experimental, Australian Films, World Premieres
- Company Credits
- Festival Contact: Kuba Dorabialski
