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At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them. This meditative documentary essay – from a Latvian writer and Lithuanian director whose composed touch has long dovetailed with the stylistically diverse works of the Baltic New Wave – pushes adroitly past the limits of the common his-toriographic investigation to create a portrait of less-clearly remembered filmmakers. The result is a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation. Also a cinematic poem about cinema poets.Read moreLess
At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them. This meditative documentary essay – from a Latvian writer and Lithuanian director whose composed touch has long dovetailed with the stylistically diverse works of the Baltic New Wave – pushes adroitly past the limits of the common his-toriographic investigation to create a portrait of less-clearly remembered filmmakers. The result is a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation. Also a cinematic poem about cinema poets.
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At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them. This meditative documentary essay – from a Latvian writer and Lithuanian director whose composed touch has long dovetailed with the stylistically diverse works of the Baltic New Wave – pushes adroitly past the limits of the common his-toriographic investigation to create a portrait of less-clearly remembered filmmakers. The result is a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation. Also a cinematic poem about cinema poets.
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Herz FrankSelf (archive footage)
Uldis BraunsSelf
Ivars SeleckisSelf
Mark SoosaarSelf
Andres SöötSelf
Robertas VerbaSelf (archive footage)
Henrikas ŠablevičiusSelf (archive footage)
Aivars FreimanisSelfExplore the crew
- Producer
- Algimante Matelis
- Producer
- Arūnas Matelis
- Director of Photography
- Laisvūnas Karvelis
- Director of Photography
- Joosep Matjus
- Director of Photography
- Jānis Šēnbergs
- Original Music Composer
- Giedrius Puskunigis
- Director
- Audrius Stonys
- Director
- Kristine Briede
- Writer
- Kristine Briede
- Writer
- Ramunė Rakauskaitė
- Writer
- Arūnas Matelis
- Writer
- Riho Västrik
- Director of Photography
- Valdis Celmiņš
- Director of Photography
- Audrius Kemežys
- Editor
- Kostas Radlinskas
- Editor
- Andra Doršs
- Producer
- Uldis Cekulis