The Harvest
NEW DOCS
East of Tbilisi, Georgia, among the vineyards and pastures of Kakheti, a new crop is burgeoning: cryptocurrency. Here Bitcoin is mined electronically in such quantities that the bucolic and antiquated wine region is among the world’s leading producers and exporters of the digital currency. In Misho Antadze’s vérité meditation, dairy farms and server farms coexist in a peculiar entente. The exquisitely photographed and sequenced juxtapositions of machines and nature, past and present, are laced with a buzzing audio track and natural sound to reveal drastically evolving landscapes and traditions. Patiently paced and astutely observed, the film shows rather than tells, and ruminations both droll and profound emerge among the intersections of pastoral rhythms and algorithms. TM
Director
Misho Antadze
Producers
Natia Guliashvili, Melissa Demetras
Editor
Daphne Rosenthal
Cinematographer
Alexander Girav
Release Year
2019
Festival Year
2020
Country
Georgia
Run Time
70 minutes
Subtitled
Yes
Premiere
North American Premiere