Invocation Trilogy 3: Connection Of The Sticks (2021) [N/A]

Release Date:
August 18, 2021

Original Title:
Invocation Trilogy 3: Connection Of The Sticks

Genres:
Comedy

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: E 

Runtime: 82

Shot as a series of stunning vignettes across three countries, Polish-Australian artist Kuba Dorabialski’s extraordinary film conjures the mystique and mysticism of the former Soviet Union. A champion ski jumper collides with ball lightning. Witches conduct wartime sabotage. Ecstatic dance resurrects a revolutionary leader. While party apparatchiks promoted socialism as a technologically advanced, ‘scientific’ project, Dorabialski uncovers a world in thrall to everyday magic and miracles. Narrated in a fictional pan-Slavic language with absurdist flair, Connections of the Sticks transports us to the Eastern Bloc as it lives on in retro-futurist fantasies, diasporic nostalgia and half-remembered family legends.

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Animal Wrangler:
Malgorzata Jedrzejczak

Assistant Director:
Katy B Plummer

Camera Operator:
Szymon Dorabialski

Director:
Kuba Dorabialski

Music:
Kuba Dorabialski

Post-Production Manager:
Kuba Dorabialski

Production Assistant:
Katy B Plummer
Monica Rani Rudhar

Set Production Assistant:
Edward Dorabialski

Writer:
Kuba Dorabialski

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