Alexandre Koberidze - What do we see when we look at the Sky?

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? was the winner of the International Critics’ FIPRESCI Award at the Berlinale 2021. Lisa and Giorgi bump into each other and a book falls to the ground. It is love at first sight: they arrange a date without even having told each other their names. But an evil eye will disrupt their union. This supernatural obstacle to them meeting again becomes their ticket to a world ruled entirely by the magic of the everyday. The lovers are cursed, condemned to wake up the next day looking completely different.

In this episode of HOBO, Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze discusses with us his major influences and his peculiar style.

In his film, no single moment is deemed more valuable than any other: the camera drifting gently to gaze at children playing in the park, dogs jauntily sauntering in the streets, a cafe owner hustling for better business, before looping back to develop the central story. One of the key features of Koberidze’s cinema is the hidden rhythm amongst all the things that are happening simultaneously around the characters. His cinema is primarily a matter of breath, timing and momentum. Just like soccer, which is one of the greatest passion of the Georgian director.

For his second feature film, Koberidze worked with a crew and a cinematographer. However, for his next project he wants to be free to work alone again with his own cellphone as he did with his debut feature Let the Summer Never Come Again.

The second episode of HOBO is out now.