Invocation Trilogy 3: Connection Of The Sticks

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2021 · 82 min · Comedy

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.

Directed by Kuba Dorabialski

Cast

• 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