KHANUMA
Overview
Khanuma is a character known by name for over a century but never by face — played by countless actresses, each version erasing the last, with no original to return to.
Credits
Khanuma – a well-known name and an unknown face.
She has been played for well over a century, by so many women that her costumes could fill a warehouse on their own. What survived all of it is the name. What never survived is the face, because each version replaced the one before it and none of them was ever the original.
This project goes after that missing face. We asked who she would be if she existed here now, in real Georgian life, and built three versions of her out of the answer. Three characters, three different ways of expression, all of them carrying the same young Georgian spirit in a different direction. What we found is a seed for the real project, which we are revealing very soon.
This is The Never-Heard Story of Khanuma exclusively by NEVERMYND.