BRIDGES OF TIME
by Kristīne Briede, Audrius Stonys
synopsis
In the beginning of 60ties behind the Iron Wall a new generation of filmmakers in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia challenged the Soviet dogma of propaganda newsreels and turned documentary filmmaking into a form of Art. They explored metaphor, promoted associative thinking, balanced facts and images in an earlier unseen and groundbreaking visual language – all that was and is called Poetic cinema.
Half a century later we try to build bridges of time and detect how the old masters were thinking and how they managed – in the midst of that vast Soviet Solaris Ocean – to put a Human in the focus and search for the answers to the Eternal questions – the ones that every generation has to answer anew…
international title: | Bridges of Time |
original title: | Laika tilti |
country: | Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia |
year: | 2018 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Kristīne Briede, Audrius Stonys |
film run: | 80' |
screenplay: | Kristīne Briede, Ramune Rakauskaite, Arunas Matelis, Riho Västrik |
cinematography by: | Valdis Celmiņš, Audrius Kemežys |
film editing: | Kostas Radlinskas, Andra Doršs |
producer: | Uldis Cekulis |
production: | Studio Nominum, VFS Films, OÜ Vesilind |