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Lobotomy

Lobotoomia , Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Poland, 2010, 57 min, Digi Beta, Creative, Current Affairs, Politics, Social Issues
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Lobotomy is Yuri Khashchavatski's personal indictment of the Russian media's brainwashing tactics. Taking the recent war between Russia and Georgia as a point of departure, he illustrates how far removed actual events were from the conflict as it was reported on Russian state television. The director's own voice drives the argument, but journalists, military experts and politicians also have their say. The film intersperses interviews (live or via Skype) with archive footage that is, in turn, contrasted with amateur clips found on the Internet. Khashchavatski contends that "Montage is a powerful and insidious weapon." And he would be the one to know, because in addition to directing the film, he also edited it and its highly effective audio mix. He is a master of the art of irony as well. This personal account by the director suggests that the Russian state is not being governed according to democratic principles, but by a Mafia-style hierarchy.
Director:
Yury Khashchavatski
Producer:
Marianna Kaat, Yury Khashchavatski, Jaroslaw Kamienski
Co Producer:
Volha Nikalaichyk
Screenplay:
Yury Khashchavatski
Director of photography:
Valery Buldyk, Jevgeni Semjonov, Eduard Dzhafarov, Oleg Maksimov, Viktor Muzalevsky
Editor:
Yury Khashchavatski
Music:
Gennady Tsypin
Sound:
Yury Khashchavatski
World Sales:
Rose Hughes
Languages:
Russian
Subtitles:
English
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East European Forum 2007 East European Stand at Sunny Side of the Doc East Silver 2010East Silver Caravan East Silver Caravan 2010
IDFA, The Netherlands, 2010
Tallinn Black Nights Festival 2010, Estonia
Cape Winelands 2011, South Africa
The Special Prize of the Jury - Cronograf 2011, Republic of Moldova
The Public Sympathy Prize - Cronograf 2011, Republic of Moldova
in association with Jan Vrijman Fund, YLE, Kanal 2, Telewizja Polska, supported by Estonian Film Foundation and Estonian Open Foundation

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