"In autumn 2022, Giorgi Gagoshidze was in the middle of making a documentary film about the unravelling of the Soviet Union when he experienced his own personal system collapse. After returning from filming in Tbilisi to Berlin, where the 42-year-old Georgian artist lives, he was suffering from shortness of breath. An X-ray revealed that both his lungs had filled with water. He was told to get a taxi to the German capital's Charite hospital straight away if he wanted to live."
"Gagoshidze was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma, a rare, aggressive and fast-growing form of blood cancer in an advanced but curable stage. A brutal cocktail of chemotherapy followed by an eight-month hospital stay in isolation was his only shot at survival. Everything just collapsed, he recalls. And the art world is very merciless. It can devour you faster than cancer. Yet this week, barely three years on from his diagnosis, Gagoshidze's documentary, Graft Versus Host, will have its premiere at the Berlin film festival."
In autumn 2022, Georgian artist Giorgi Gagoshidze collapsed physically while making a documentary about the Soviet Union. An X-ray showed his lungs filled with water and doctors diagnosed advanced but curable T-cell lymphoma. He underwent aggressive chemotherapy and an eight-month isolated hospital stay as his only path to survival. During recovery he completed a 31-minute documentary, Graft Versus Host, premiering at the Berlin film festival. The film mixes archive footage, personal reflection and DIY graphics in a style reminiscent of Adam Curtis and Hito Steyerl. The diagnosis prompted a reframing of recent eastern-bloc history, linking his treatment plan to the Soviet collapse.
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