This contemplative and self-reflexive documentary from Latvian director Kristine Briede and Lithuanian filmmaker Audrius Stonys is both a love letter to the documentarians from the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania who, presumably, inspired them and a dialogue between the period in which these poetic pioneers - including Latvian Ivars Seleckis, Lithuanian Robertas Verba and Estonian Andres Sööt - were working and the present day.
The conversation between the Sixties (and onwards) and today shows the directors and some of their subjects now and then as well as offering up a meditation on the way that documentary may not just capture the quotidian goings on but also a spiritual element. As one of them puts it, "The meaning of life is searching for the meaning of it".
There is a wealth of archive clips from across the Baltics - from fishermen and women to a child reciting a poem.
The conversation between the Sixties (and onwards) and today shows the directors and some of their subjects now and then as well as offering up a meditation on the way that documentary may not just capture the quotidian goings on but also a spiritual element. As one of them puts it, "The meaning of life is searching for the meaning of it".
There is a wealth of archive clips from across the Baltics - from fishermen and women to a child reciting a poem.
- 7/13/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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