Continuing the one-frame film principle embedded in the film “Cinema and We”, the director Matiss Goat with his team has completed work on filming the latest film project “Taste of Water”. The authors of the film are all the actors and directors involved in the film.
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Combining the cinematic elements of modernism and the environmental conditionality of theater, Kaža’s forthcoming film will be a reflection on the constructions that determine and influence our choices in the current reality. “Taste of Water” looks behind the scenes of an influential esoteric organization. The head of the association is the mysterious Master (Vilis daugiņš), who, using the opportunities of the digital age and publishing contradictory opinions, has gained a wide range of followers not only in Latvia, but also abroad.
The master’s society intends to move to a new complex worth several million, where people will be able to “cleanse themselves of information pollution” with the help of specially structured water. When journalist Catherine (Iveta Pole) finds out about the schemes behind the Water House project, she decides to investigate it and inform the public about what is really going on. However, Katrīna’s daughter, influencere Zane (Alise Dzene), who is convinced of the special power of water, is actively involved in the Master’s Water Society.
Like the comedy “Cinema and We”, “Taste of Water” is shot in one continuous shot, but in a more complex setting. Twenty-three sets at two independent filming locations, where six actors play the entire film from start to finish in about an hour and forty minutes, is a serious challenge for both the actors and the film’s technical staff, as the slightest mistake means going back to the beginning. After several months of rehearsal and four days of filming, the real dub has finally been filmed.
“This work is our reflection on the extremely fragmented world we now live in. Also on the extent to which we are free to do what we want, to what extent we depend on the structures that indirectly determine our words and actions,” says film director Matisse. Goat. “We work a lot with the elements of modernism cinema – textuality, environmental conditionality, acting alienation. The camera” Taste of Water “is like the seventh actor and plays many different roles. For example, there is a scene where the camera is beaten, there is a scene where it becomes about the hero ‘s video blog camera, and so on, “adds cameraman Alexander Grebnev.
Roles in the film “The Taste of Water” are played by Iveta Pole, Vilis Dodiņš, Andris Keišs, Alise Dzene, Gerds Lapoška and Jānis Skutelis. Fenixfilm and Deep Sea Studios, Gertrudes Street Theater and the National Film School of the Latvian Academy of Culture are cooperating in the project Taste of Water. The producers of the film are Matīss Kaža and Dace Siatkovska, cameraman Aleksandrs Grebņevs, artist Kaspars Kauliņš, costume and graphic artist Ieva Kauliņa, make-up artist Beata Rjabovska, sound director Aleksandrs Vaicahovskis.
The production of the film is supported by the target program KultūrElpa of the State Cultural Capital Fund. Work on the screens is expected at the end of 2021.
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