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Gela Babluani
Gela Babluani was born in Tblisi in Georgia 26 years ago.
He is the son of the director Temur Babluani Gela was 17 when his father sent his four children to study in France where he developed the passion for cinema.
His references remain the great silent, black-and-white Soviet films he discovered in the movie theater in Tblisi with his father. The force of the images and the power of the editing kept him riveted to his seat for hours on end.
Formally, he has sought to recreate this same force in the images ever since his first short film, A Fleur de Peau (2002). 13 (Tzameti) is his first feature film.
The same childhood memories often come back to me, fixed images, like rays of light, which cut through the darkness. Those images are always vaguely present.
I would like to grasp this slipping phenomenon through an initiatic journey inside a closed world, at the heart of the intersection of different trajectories and interests, the only way out of where is a cold survival instinct.
To give substance to the story, I would like to pursue with the camera the characters in the mechanical execution of unwritten rules and, through precise directing oh the actors, reveal their complexity and singularity. Using broad framing and directional lighting to make the changes from shadow to brightness more striking, I aim to find the right tone for the film and prepare the final stage of the creative process: the editing.
(Gela Babluani)
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