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Invocation Trilogy 3: Connection Of The Sticks

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.

Top Cast

  • Kuba Dorabialski

    Kuba Dorabialski

    The Historian who Dances Lenin out of The Grave

  • Bruno Dorabialski

    Bruno Dorabialski

    Grandfather as a Young Man

  • Roland Dorabialski

    Roland Dorabialski

    Shura Kollontai

  • Rob Vorch

    Rob Vorch

    Voice of God-Lenin

  • Izabella Sawik

    Izabella Sawik

    Woman with Dogs

  • Edward Dorabialski

    Edward Dorabialski

    Resurrected Lenin

Overview

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.

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