{"id":26,"date":"2017-02-24T16:43:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T12:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/budrugana.ge\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2018-05-22T00:30:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T20:30:57","slug":"art-director","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/budrugana.ge\/en\/art-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Director – Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gela Kandelaki was born in 1940, May 27, in the city of Tbilisi. His father was a famous documentarist Irakli Kandelaki. At the age of 17 Gela started his relationship with \u201cGeorgian Film\u201d.\u00a0 In 1962, he finished \u201cShota Rustaveli Theater and Film Georgia State University\u201d. In 1966, Gela finished his studies at \u201cMoscow State University\u201d, faculty of cinema directing. He is a director, actor and dramaturge.<\/p>\n

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Besides professional activities, Gela Kandelaki is very actively involved in a pedagogic life in Georgia as well as abroad of his country. He was a teacher at the \u201cShota Rustaveli Theater and Film Georgia State University\u201d and at the \u201cIvane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University\u201d. In 2009, Gela conducted a lecture in a Cinema Academy of Berlin. In 2010, he was invited as a jury for International Workshop for European Film Students (Summer MEDIA Studio 2010).<\/p>\n

With the guidance of Gela Kandelaki, in 2012, Lithuanian theatre created performance \u2013 \u201cBoy and Seagulls\u201d which was a synthesis of Dramatic and Shadow theatre. In 2015-2016, group of Lithuanian students came to Georgia, to study the art of hand shadow theatre, acting, dramaturgy and directing. Gela Kandelaki was a leading teacher of Lithuanian group. After successfully finishing studies, Georgian hand shadow theatre and Lithuanian theater started a strong partnership and Hand Shadow Theater Budrugana Lithuania was founded.<\/p>\n

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Since 2006, Gela has been in partnership with festival \u201cTbilisi Contemporary Music Evenings\u201d.\u00a0Together, they created multimedia performances.<\/p>\n

Since 2009, Gela has been in partnership with choreograph Mariam Aleksidze. Gela is a co-director of multiple choreography performances.<\/p>\n

In 2013, he directed Faraj Garayev\u2019s mono-opera \u2013 \u201cTraveling in to Love\u201d.<\/p>\n

Since 2011, with Metropolitan Isaia of Tskhinvali and Nikozi, Gela is a co-organizer of International Animation Film Festival \u201cNikozi\u201d. He also teaches animation and shadow theatre in a local school of Nikzoi village (After the name of St. Alexandre Okropiridze).<\/p>\n

Gela is a founder of film studios: \u201cKvali\u201d, \u201cKvali XXI\u201d, \u201cGeorgian Film \u2013 Abkhazeti\u201d, hand shadow theatre \u201cBudrugana\u201d and \u201cBudrugana \u2013 Gagra\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Filmography (Director)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u201d 1965, 10min. \u201cSummer Has Passed\u201d 1965, 10min. \u201cLong Croon\u201d 1966, 18min. \u201cMuseum of Georgia\u201d 1968, 30min. \u201cFootball without Ball\u201d (With Leri Sikharulidze) 1969, 20min. \u201cExhibition of Children\u2019s Drawings\u201d 1972, 20min. \u201cImereti\u201d 1979, 20min. \u201cNokalakevi\u201d (With Tengiz Modebadze) 1980, 30min. \u201cCalamity\u201d 1980, 75min. \u201cVardzia\u201d 1983, 30min. \u201c0.047% Of The Land\u201d 2008, 120min.<\/p>\n

Film-Performances: \u201cOld Vaudevilles\u201d, \u201cStepmother of Samanishvili\u201d, \u201cOnce Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird\u201d Director: Otar Ioseliani, Gela Kandelaki \u2013 Main Actor.<\/p>\n

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Art Director and Producer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Animation Films:<\/p>\n

\u201cRaven\u201d, \u201cPlague\u201d, \u201cBabilina\u201d, \u201cFamily\u201d, \u201cWait\u201d, \u201cPortrait\u201d, \u201cEphemeris\u201d, \u201cBati Tasiko\u201d, \u201cPrisoner\u201d, \u201cHunter\u201d, \u201cConfession of Wolf\u201d, \u201cLast Letter of Van Gogh\u201d, \u201cTiger and Knight\u201d.<\/p>\n

Narrative Documentary Film: \u201cIakob Gogebashvili\u201d.<\/p>\n

Featured Documentaries: \u201cSvaneti\u201d, \u201cLast Travel of Lady Mariam Bagrationi\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Co-Production<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hungarian-Georgian Films: \u201cUnknown Episodes from the Life of Pirosmani\u201d, \u201cSilly Tree of a Pomegrante\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gela Kandelaki was born in 1940, May 27, in the city of Tbilisi. His father was a famous documentarist Irakli Kandelaki. At the age of 17 Gela started his relationship with \u201cGeorgian Film\u201d.\u00a0 In 1962, he finished \u201cShota Rustaveli Theater and Film Georgia State University\u201d. In 1966, Gela finished his studies at \u201cMoscow State University\u201d, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/budrugana.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/budrugana.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/budrugana.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budrugana.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budrugana.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/budrugana.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/budrugana.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/budrugana.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}