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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary A filmmaker puts out a casting call for young adults, aged 15 to 23. The director wants to make a film about growing up in her home country, Georgia, and find commonalities across social and ethnic lines. She travels through cities and villages interviewing the candidates who responded and filming their daily lives. The boys and girls wh...

Directed By: Tinatin Gurchiani

Written By: Tinatin Gurchiani

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 37 m

The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary A filmmaker puts out a casting call for young adults, aged 15 to 23. The director wants to make a film about growing up in her home country, Georgia, and find commonalities across social and ethnic lines. She travels through cities and villages interviewing the candidates who responded and filming their daily lives. The boys and girls wh...

Directed By: Tinatin Gurchiani

Written By: Tinatin Gurchiani

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88
Aug 5, 2013
It ever so subtly zeros in on the extreme particularities of a remote place to find something universal, or at the very least easily comprehensible about despair.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 6, 2013
The slippages and contradictions between who people are, imagine themselves to be, and present themselves as being inform the structure of Machine, a kind of loose container into which people step and out of which they extract more ideal selves.
By Aaron Cutler FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 8, 2013
The film produces moments that catch in the throat.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 7, 2013
This is a film about people whose stories are still being written, and who, despite their palpable sense of exhaustion, are still seeking healing and hope. There are no Hollywood endings here. That’s just the truth, which Gurchiani has proved she’s committed to capturing.
By Jen Chaney FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 29, 2013
Those already well-versed in Georgia’s recent history will get the most from a series of real-life character sketches occasionally cryptic for their lack of contextualizing explanation. But the docu’s ample human interest and handsome lensing, despite much visual evidence of a struggling economy, will hold interest for most viewers.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 29, 2013
As a National Geographic-style pictorial, The Machine is modestly engaging.
By Duane Byrge FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 22, 2013
Unfortunately, there's a lack of structure, context and point of view to the largely gray, grim, hardscrabble world presented here.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Aug 2, 2013
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/TheMachieWhichMakesEverythingDisappear
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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