At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them. This meditative documentary essay – from a Latvian writer and Lithuanian director whose composed touch has long dovetailed with the stylistically diverse works of the Baltic New Wave – pushes adroitly past the limits of the common his-toriographic investigation to create a portrait of less-clearly remembered filmmakers. The result is a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation. Also a cinematic poem about cinema poets.
Audrius Stonys
Director
Kristine Briede
Director, Writer
Riho Västrik
Writer
Ramunė Rakauskaitė
Writer
Arūnas Matelis
Writer
Herz Frank
Self (archive footage)
Uldis Brauns
Self
Ivars Seleckis
Self
Mark Soosaar
Self
Andres Sööt
Self
Robertas Verba
Self (archive footage)
Henrikas Šablevičius
Self (archive footage)
Aivars Freimanis
Self
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Room 23761%
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Directed by John Ford70%
Cameraperson67%
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound69%
Jodorowsky's Dune78%
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Being James Bond77%
The Skywalker Legacy78%
Sherman's March67%
Love, Antosha74%
A Decade Under the Influence79%
Night Will Fall76%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!60%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
