Batumi, a Palm Tree Under Snow

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Nicolas Landru Batumi Batoumi Georgia Adjara Short-film Snow Palm Trees Géorgie Adjarie
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  • Added: 04-Feb-07

This short film shows, on the rythms of orientalising Georgian music, a collection of pictures from Batumi in an exceptional moment: under snow. This subtropical harbour of the Black Sea coast in Georgia has one of the hotest climates in the region; nevertheless, the main principle of its climate is humidity. And when, rarely, it gets colder, the suptropical lush vegetation happens to be covered by white powder... Batumi, the capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic whithin Georgia which has the particularity to be traditionnaly inhabited by Georgian muslims, is a fascinating syncretic place: once an strategic russian city, it is now mainly Georgian orthodox and contains mosque, churches of many confessions, synagogue ; it is where west and east meet. The short-film try to show this mixture of influences in a strange snowy context, which strenghthens the weird aspect of this town. Sometimes with pathos, sometimes with humour.

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Batumi, a Palm Tree Under Snow

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  • it is sad that ...

    it is sad that disappeared great civilizations live behind confusion or degenerate into something completely alien. I understand the pain of people like you, nicolandru. I'm sorry for the sad fate of both Hellenic civilization and Byzantine Empire. What a heartbreaking story.

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  • nicol ur stupid im ...

    nicol ur stupid im sorry bro

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  • Just the Azeri was ...

    Just the Azeri was missing! ...This miserable polemic between people wanting to put a national name on a place or on a peace of arts shows well the situation in the Caucasus. There, all nationalisms try to reinterpret the past through their own vision, and to nationalize cultural heritage.

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  • This poor cultural ...

    This poor cultural heritage, when it was created, was not thought to be national. But it became, because people feel that they need to make a nation to have a logical identity, so they construct their past.And it is sad, because people fight absurdly about it. The conflict about my ridiculous little movie shows on a small scale how bad the situation is.

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  • it is written that ...

    it is written that the music is armenian. it is wrong; the music is actually azerian folk song.

    batumi is a very beatiful city...

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