Riga, August 6, LETA. This year, the Design Film Festival moves online from Kuldiga and offers a selection of eight documentaries from the cinema “Kino bize” “Home Cinema” until the end of August.
Paula Bērziņa, a representative of the cinema, informed LETA, the program includes film stories from previous years, two studio films by Juris Podnieks, as well as the film “Marina Abramoviča in Brazil” premiered in Latvia. In addition to the film, a lecture on performance art and the work of Marina Abramoviča by the director of the Latvian Performance Art Center is available.
According to Bērziņa, the selection of the Design Film Festival highlights both the life stories of inspiring personalities and their creative work, as well as the socio-economic processes taking place in the world. Two new films by Podnieks studios, “I would like to be in a circle” and “Thrown into the world”, tell the story of Latvian-born ballet dancer Alexei Avečkin, the brightest artist of the Latvian National Ballet in the last twenty years, rights and is passionate about their art, because he believes that the experience of the Latvian people allows him to better understand the history of Australian Aboriginal people.
Latvia’s premiere on the online platform “Kino bize” “Home Cinema” will be director Marco Del Fiola’s film “Marina Abramovich in Brazil”, which was nominated for the Best Documentary Film of the Year award at the Stockholm, London and Moscow International Film Festivals. During the film, after a painful divorce, the performance artist goes on a meditative trip around Brazil, where not only art and healing, but also the mundane and the divine meet. In addition to what was seen in the film, a lecture on performance art and Abramoviča’s work by the director of the Latvian Performing Arts Center Laine Kristberga will also be available there, Bērziņa pointed out.
A representative of the cinema said that five of the audience’s favorite documentary stories have been compiled from the programs of the Design Film Festival in previous years. The meeting of the two cultures can be seen in the film “The First Monday of May”, which provides an opportunity to look behind the scenes of the most visited fashion exhibition “China: through a magnifying glass” at the New York Metropolitan Museum.
The film “Ajs Veivejs: Never regrets” tells the story of a Chinese artist who, with his socially active works of art, is able to provoke loud discussions in the Chinese administration. The personality of Italian photographers Leticia Batalya in the film “Mafia Photographer” was able to photograph aggression, power and danger. A truly utopian model of society can be seen in the film “Free Lunch Society”, where income would be provided for everyone. In turn, “Capital C: Financing Revolution” addresses the phenomenon of crowd financing, which has created opportunities for many creative entrepreneurs to fulfill their dreams, Bērziņa said.
The fee for four random films is 14 euros. The film program and recording of the lecture is available until the end of August in the cinema “Kino bize” “Mājas kino”, following the link “kinobize.lv/jaunumi/majas-kino-augusta-izlase”.
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