Abstract

THEO, A NEED TO GET MONEY FAST (2010)
Film Review by
Paula Soares

Original Title: THEO, a Need to Get Money Fast.
by Rati Oneli
USA / Georgia, 2010, 30 min
Screenplay, director: Rati Oneli
Producer: Jacob Gali, Rati Oneli
Cinematography: David Barkan
Editing: Ramiro Suarez
Music: Edward Grieg
Cast: Thomas Andre, Jacob Gali
Producing company: Liber8Films

I recall THEO presented at the Avanca Film Festival 2011, a film directed and written by Rati Oneli, a native of Georgia residing in New York for the last 12 years.
Theo interested me because of the way it embodies Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of liquid times and how such concept is expressed in the film structure in a very intense way. In the film, everything makes sense, preventing the viewer from moving away from the images that flow in each shot. In parallel, the film includes cinematographical and geographical references as well as an attempt to freeze time between past and present without future, where fast-moving images make time swallow space.