One Drop of Blue | short experimental film 

The film is produced by Circe – an experimental platform for contemporary dance and theater in partnership with Saqanima and Metallique.

“One Drop Of Blue” is the elixir of life, therefore without it there is no planet Earth, furthermore no mankind. The great secret that the world keeps is also in the water. The Mtkvari river, which comes from the mountains in Turkey and flows into the Caspian Sea on the territory of Azerbaijan, tells us a story. As a result of archeological excavations, it was discovered that the objects found in the Caucasus in the Bronze Age belonged to the state of Urartu or to the Neolithic. These old settlements were spread between two big rivers Mtkvari and Araksi. This is where the name Mtkvari-Araksi Culture comes from.

Representatives of Mtkvari-Araksi culture left the Caucasus, went to Palestine through Northern Syria and Anatolia and arrived in Israel. There it was known as Khirbet-Kerak culture. The performance was shot in Uplistsikhe. A city worth mentioning, as Mtkvari flows under it and has great cultural value – Uplistsikhe (Fortress of God in Georgian). This ancient city is the greatest monument of the pagan ritual world that existed before Christianity. In ancient times, people used to go to Uplistsikhe during the equinox to take part in a mystical ritual. It was the city of the sun. The city of the god where all the priests and their servants lived. People living in Uplistsikhe glorified the local gods and worshiped Nana, the symbol of the Great Mother, which is goddess of nature. This beautiful city was built by the river Mtkvari and it used to be a throne city for centuries, just as our capital city – Tbilisi.

Credits : Animation , producer – Mariam Kandelaki Director and author of the concept – Maka Kiladze Musician – Nathalie Basilaia production/edit – Metallique production, Xosilita Xose Xositashvili Operator – Giorgi Mkheidze Dancers: EkàtáMakåkaī Marina Makasarashvili MariamSakvarelidze Tina Bichi Xosilita Xose Xositashvili Mariam Gigauri Animators : Nino Khitalishvili Nina Chubinishvili

The project was sponsored by : თბილისის მერია / Tbilisi City Hall საქართველოსკულტურის, სპორტისა და ახალგაზრდობის სამინისტრო nationalAgencyForCulturalHeritagePreservationGeorgia Tänzer ohne Grenzen e.V. Tbilisi – Unesco City of Media Arts