Invocation Trilogy 3: Connection Of The Sticks

Name: Invocation Trilogy 3: Connection Of The Sticks
Director: Kuba Dorabialski
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2021-08-18
Cast: Kuba Dorabialski, Bruno Dorabialski, Roland Dorabialski, Rob Vorch, Izabella Sawik

2021 · 82 min · Comedy

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.

Directed by Kuba Dorabialski · Written by Kuba Dorabialski

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Kuba Dorabialski The Historian who Dances Lenin out of The Grave
Bruno Dorabialski Grandfather as a Young Man
Roland Dorabialski Shura Kollontai
Rob Vorch Voice of God-Lenin
Izabella Sawik Woman with Dogs
Edward Dorabialski Resurrected Lenin

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