Their helicopter
Salome Jashi / Georgia / 2006 / 22 min / Colour
The Ardoteli family discovers an object of civilization: a military helicopter from Chechnya that went down ten years earlier in the Khevsureti region, in Georgia. Since it proved useless as anything else, it became a shelter for cows, and the children made it into their playground. In a land completely without pylons, electrical wires or modern buildings, the remains of the helicopter are seen as unique and precious. Though its sunken “eyes” it tells a story of the old, young, and very young Ardotelis that besides this know nothing of modernity. But in this isolated village, where even the trees seem like enemy creatures and the sun rarely shines, this sign of our dis- eased civilization – a war machine – becomes humanized, and rendered poetic, with the glance of children who, rocking, fall asleep, in this remote corner of the mountains, lost in the sky.
Salome Jashi
Credits
Language Georgian Subject Salome Jashi Cinematography Tato Kotetishvili Sound Irakli Metreveli, Salome Jashi Editing Salome Jashi Producer Salome Jashi Production company Salome Jashi
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