Director, writer and producer Sandro Souladze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1988, to Giorge Souladze, a film director and editor, and Dinara Maglakelidze, a film theoretician. This fact determined his love and interest to cinema from the early childhood. Just before he turned 10, he moved to Berlin with his mother, where he lived out his teenage years. Berlin quickly became his city and soon began to shape Souladze's future and also his passion for German expressionism, what was soon reflected in his first short experimental film The Violinist.
At 23, Souladeze moved back to his native Tbilisi to complete his university education. He applied to Shota Rustaveli Film and Theater Georgia State University and was readily accepted. There he got his master degree in filmmaking.
A special thing about Sandro's works is significance and extraordinariness of each of them. It has to be said, that none of his films are lookalike. Before graduation he shot three short films ... The Violinist, The Black Goo and Tuta.
The Violinist is a silent experimental movie, inspired by David Lynch and German expressionism. This film is special for its unique visual way of storytelling. The Violinist tells a story of a young man, who's suffering the pangs of remorse and the story is told with the visual art and sound, created by the director. The film is black and white.
The Black Goo, a futuristic and apocalyptic short documentary drama reveals the issue and shows the dire consequences of unreasonable and excessive use of environmental resources. The Film was shot in the Georgian industrial town of Rustavi. To deepen the mood and heighten the impact of the film's nearly extinctive look and to provide stronger emotional connection with the surrounding subjects, the director chose black and white colours and dark ambient music. In this short film, Souladze combines and holds the roles of screenwriter, executive producer, editor and music composer.
Tuta is Sandro's diploma work and his latest short movie. It tells a story of a 17-year-old girl who lives with her father in the almost empty mountain village. Her dream is to leave the harsh mountain life behind and become independent.
Tuta is director's first color film. The film is tranquil and slow in order to create a meditational atmosphere. Shot in the mountainous village of western Georgia, Kharagauli, film reveals the issue of the gradual depopulation of Georgian villages because of nature being there tough, ruthless and life there ... very hard. The film is inspired by the works of Werner Herzog, Andrei Tarkovsky, Tengiz Abuladze, Nicolas Winding Refn, Béla Tarr and Sergei Parajanov.
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Often combines the roles of a director and a screenwriter. His films often have the same slow, meditational feeling, with minimal to zero dialogs and long shots. Souladze often uses blood as a symbol of death and decay and minimalistic ambient music/noises to give certain scenes a hypnotic groove.
