The More I Zoom in on the Image of These Dogs, the Clearer it Becomes That They Are Related to the Stars

DUTCH PREMIERE

A picture of dogs is zoomed into more than a thousand times over, until what’s left is soft, shining matter – and the title turns out to be true.

The More I Zoom in on the Image of These Dogs, the Clearer it Becomes That They Are Related to the Stars is a collaboration between Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze and Hungarian composer Mihály Víg, who for four decades scored the films of the recently deceased, acclaimed filmmaker Béla Tarr. Koberidze is best known for the films he shoots on an obsolete mobile phone, whose low resolution gives his images a wondrous quality, holding more than a sharper image could. A photograph of abandoned dogs looking out from the balcony of a shelter is magnified, then magnified again, thousand times over. What was a picture of dogs becomes a soft, shining surface, resonant with the matter of the universe.

SCREENINGS

Saturday 7 November 16:00 (Between Film and Art 2)

Programme section(s): Between Film and Art
Original title: The More I Zoom in on the Image of These Dogs, the Clearer it Becomes That They Are Related to the Stars | Year: 2023 | Runtime: 4′
Country: Georgia, Germany | Language: – | Subtitles: English
Director: Alexandre Koberidze | Production: Film Fest Gent, 2×25 | Cinematography: Alexandre Koberidze | Editing: Alexandre Koberidze | Music: Mihály Víg

FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION) 

Film Fest Gent, 2023 | First Look at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, 2026

DIRECTOR’S BIO 

Alexandre Koberidze (b. 1984, Tbilisi) studied film in Georgia before moving to Berlin, where he studied at the DFFB and still lives and works. His first feature, Let the Summer Never Come Again (2017), shot entirely on a Sony Ericsson phone, won the Grand Prize at FIDMarseille and announced a filmmaker unusually indifferent to the prevailing race towards higher definition. His second, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021), premiered in competition at the Berlinale and won the FIPRESCI Prize. His most recent feature, Dry Leaf (2025), premiered in competition at Locarno with a Special Mention: a 186-minute road film in which his father, David, plays the lead and his brother, Giorgi, composed the score, and which Koberidze wrote, directed, shot and edited himself – again on the same obsolete phone, at 144p resolution.