Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer
Directing
Biography
Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer is a Georgian-German filmmaker, working in sound, film and multimedia. Their work questions themes of displacement, translation, gossip, dysphoria. They attempt to work against ethnocentricism, in particular in terms of West Asia and the Caucasus diaspora. They have most recently screened at Camden Art Centre, London Short Film Festival, E A Shared Space (Tbilisi), Institute for Contemporary Art, and as part of the One Minutes series curated by Jesse Darling and screened at Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. They are the founder of F(r)ictions, a screening programme for short experimental film.
Known For
Archive as poem in an age of perpetual witnessing curated by Jesse Darling. The selected one-minute videos for this edition of The One Minutes were submitted from Canada, France, Georgia, Germany, Lebanon, The Netherlands, the UK and the USA.
The One Minutes: Everything Happened So Much
An essay film comprised of layers and hybrid cartographies: I aim to question, although abstractly, the masculinisation of gender, especially in the context of being an immigrant in Europe.
lap(se)
The artist, Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer has been putting together an archive of their great grandfather’s documents: he was a Georgian Marxist economist executed by Stalin in the purges of the 1930s. The film looks at some of his documents, including the execution papers, alongside a poetic essay on the Caucasus/West Asia/the objectification of the post Soviet.