San Francisco Bay Guardian Online: “‘Discovering Georgian Cinema’ raises the curtain on a vital national cinema”

"Spanning nine months of programs and a full century of cinema, ‘Discovering Georgian Cinema’ is the kind of ambitious exhibition that reminds us how much of film history is yet to be written,” writes the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online.

The online media outlet published an interview with exhibition curator Susan Oxtoby that discussed the challenges of organising such a large-scale exhibition and how she organised the program around three periods: the silent era, the art cinema explosion of the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary scene.

The series, presented by the Pacific Film Archive, represents a remarkable feat of coordination: Its opening weeks feature prints from Toulouse, Berlin, New York, Tbilisi, and, most delicately given recent history, Moscow.”

Read the full article here: www.sfbg.com