/nginx/o/2021/12/28/14281513t1heba4.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1 "Latvian experimental film screening at the cinema “K.Suns” – Cinema – Culture +")
According to Lāsma Bērtule, the representative of the organizers of the event, Latvian experimental cinema is a relatively little-mastered field, but looking at it reveals unusual works made outside the big cinema system and speaks a different language of cinema. They are stored both in the State Archive of Film and Photophono Documents and in private archives and collections. The authors of these films are currently well-known filmmakers, artists and other creative industries, as well as lesser-known amateur amateurs.
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The screening will feature early films by authors who have traveled very different paths, made in equally different circumstances between the 1970s and the 1990s. Ivars Skanstiņš’s 1972 film “Twilight Play with a Mirror”, Andris Grīnbergs ‘1972 work “Self-Portrait”, Arnis Rītup’s and Haralds Elcer’s 1989 film “Coitus Interruptus”, Andrejs Ēķis’ 1989 film “Mission in Kabul”, Jānis Putniņš’s 1992 film “Sisyphus” and Juris Poškus’ 1994 film “Sunday Morning”.
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All movies will be shown in their original 16mm and 8mm formats.
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Bertule said that Poškus and Putniņš’s films were made while both directors were studying cinema in the United States, and compared to previous and later Latvian experimental films, American avant-garde cinema has left its mark on them.
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The “Mission in Kabul” building was created at the Academy of Sciences’ Folk Film Studio, which has been known as a place open to various cinematic searches and unconventional expressions since the late 1970s. The main and only role in it is Poškus.
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The work of the time of change is also an abstract film by Rītups and Elcers – it was created without a camera, acting directly on the film emulsion with photochemistry. Originally called “Coitus”, it has survived to an abbreviated version of “Coitus Interruptus”.
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Skanstiņš’s and Greenberg’s films are the only ones that have survived from the series of self-portrait films made by the experimental theater group “Birojs”, and are considered to be the first radical avant-garde films in Latvia. A copy of the film “Self-Portrait” is kept in the New York Anthology Film Archive.
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After the screening, there will be a conversation with the authors of some films, where it will be possible to learn more about them.
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