
Invocation Trilogy 3: Connection Of The Sticks
2021 • Directed by
Kuba Dorabialski
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.
Release Date
8/18/2021
Rating
0.0/10
Cast
Crew
Kuba Dorabialski
Post-Production Manager
Edward Dorabialski
Set Production Assistant
Katy B Plummer
Assistant Director
Katy B Plummer
Production Assistant
Kuba Dorabialski
Writer
Malgorzata Jedrzejczak
Animal Wrangler
Monica Rani Rudhar
Production Assistant
Kuba Dorabialski
Director
Szymon Dorabialski
Camera Operator
Kuba Dorabialski
Music