The 20th century dreamt of utopia but instead experienced tragedies. This film looks at San Francisco-based Latvian artist and playwright Raimonds Staprāns’ nearly century-long experience of trying to define life and statehood. It constructs an exact replica of one of his paintings, and asks actors to portray characters from his plays. Keeping in mind the symbolically charged image of the red barn in the painting, it deliberately incites arguments between the actors, the director and the crew about the motivations of the characters as well as alternative actions or decisions that they could have taken but did not.
Pēteris Krilovs
Director, Writer
Ieva Struka
Writer
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The Class of ‘9271%
Sherman's March67%
Public Speaking70%
28 Up75%
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library64%
A Love Song for Latasha70%
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McQueen74%
The U.S. vs. John Lennon67%
Marwencol72%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Avatar Spirits81%
Report61%
Rich Hill69%
The Matrix Recalibrated69%
Naqoyqatsi61%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
180° South72%
Capital in the Twenty-First Century65%
