Director, Editing, Narration, Research: Luka Gotsiridze
Cast: Nini Pkhakadze, Bahram Asgarov, Tuguldur Batjargal, Irdi Duka, Tatiana Shevchenko, Lyuben Zarev, Ilko Drenkov, Ganbat Adiasuren
Advising: Jason Murphy, Nedyalko Delchev
Graphic Design: Fatme Tsiko
Based on the book by Peter Morton, Heresy of Innocence is a hybrid-documentary podcast about a woman, Tempel Anneke, who was executed for witchcraft and sorcery in the 17th century Germany, Holy Roman Empire.
The podcast tells a story of Tempel, trapped in prison as a heretic, and it discusses the issues that surround gender, belief, and otherness.
2020. Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
Narration & Editing: Luka Gotsiridze; Interviews: Aya Rebai, Ciko Sidzumo;
Reclaim is an exploration of my relationship with my body and the role of a body in art, history-making, as a tool, as a statement, and as a source of power. It delves into the idea of the body as more than a vessel but a living being with its own agency. It also explores deep-seated norms that impact emotional expression based on gender and questions ingrained mantras and unlearns societal expectations. Reclaim reclaims the significance of a body, specifically in queer communities where touch and intimacy become a form of rebellion against taboos, historically forced silences, and disregard.
2022. Tivoli, New York.
Narration & Editing: Luka Gotsiridze; Music: Zurab Gotsiridze [Anarqia 18]; Photography: Davit Bakuridze;
Performing gender normativity compels us to feel insincere, insecure, and conflicted. It leads many of us to anguish and a sense of detachment from one’s lineage. In the form of a silent disco, Inner Rave invites audiences to embody the artist’s quest for self-identification in his conservative family.
The audio is part of an audience-interactive performance taking place at the Fisher Center for Performing Arts. Read more about it here.
2022. Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Challenging the Passport Privilege
Research, Narration & Editing: Luka Gotsiridze;
Interviews: Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir, Dimitry Kochenov, Anil Duman, Guzal Alimova, Merve Kilic, Mostafa Abd El Aziz;
Advising: Mathias Moschel;
Graphic Design: Fatme Tsiko;
Commissioned by a grant from the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
2021. Vienna, Austria.
Challenging the Passport Privilege is a hybrid project the written part of which focuses on the restricted access to freedom of movement and race discrimination faced by third-country nationals in the EU. The audio part of the project gives a platform to academics and students to share their experiences of discrimination and passport apartheid.
The posters of the podcast were distributed throughout Vienna to reach a wider audience and raise awareness of the issue.
The Flood of 1954
Writing, Narration & Photography: Luka Gotsiridze;
Editing & Translation: Tsvetana Haydushka;
Interview Subject: Dobrina Aimalieva;
Oral History Project – Community Mapping: Life Histories of the City’s Elders. 2018 / Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
ადამიანი გაზეთის სვეტში [Human in a Newspaper Column]
Poem: Otar Chiladze
Reading & Mixing: Luka Gotsiridze
LISTEN [IN GEORGIAN]
2020. Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
მე და ღამე [Me and the Night]
Poem: Galaktion Tabidze
Music: Gia Khancheli
Reading & Mixing: Luka Gotsiridze
LISTEN [IN GEORGIAN]
2018. Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
FIRST. ONLY. DIFFERENT.
Directed & Edited by Luka Gotsiridze
Interview Subject: Ayah Slama Besaiso
Life and lived experiences inside the open-air prison in Gaza, Palestine.
2018. Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
წყლის პირას, მურყნის ჭალაში [By the Water, In the Alder Swamp]
ნაწყვეტი / Excerpt
Written by Lia Liqokeli
Reading & Mixing by Luka Gotsiridze
LISTEN [IN GEORGIAN]
2018. Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
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