Herz Frank
Self (archive footage)
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.
Release Date | 2018-07-01 |
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Runtime | 1h 20m |
Directors | Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede, Valdis Celmiņš, Audrius Kemežys, Laisvūnas Karvelis, Joosep Matjus, Jānis Šēnbergs |
Producers | Uldis Cekulis, Algimante Matelis, Arūnas Matelis, Riho Västrik |
Writers | Kristine Briede, Ramunė Rakauskaitė, Arūnas Matelis, Riho Västrik |