(Invocation Trilogy 3: Connection Of The Sticks)

Content: 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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Genres:

Comedy

Runtime:

82 minutes

Year:

2021

Directors:

Kuba Dorabialski

Actors:

The Historian who Dances Lenin out of The Grave

Grandfather as a Young Man

Shura Kollontai

Voice of God-Lenin

Woman with Dogs

Crews:

Director

Writer

Post-Production Manager

Music

Camera Operator