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Moccasin Flowers

Moccasin Flowers is a film made in collaboration and dedication to a musician and hermit Orla Wren (UK)
Film talks about letting go the loved one and reaching out for re-connection with inner-self which has been lost during the deprivation.

Shot on Super8 black and white Tri-X film as well as expired Svema, hand-processed during year 2015 and 2016.

"Moccasin Flowers" was released as an album in 2015 as dedication to musician's mother who passed away to different heavens...

  • Ieva Balode
    Director
  • Марина Гофеншефер
    Key Cast
  • Orla Wren (musician)
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 35 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 26, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    Latvia
  • Country of Filming:
    Latvia
  • Shooting Format:
    Super8
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Experimental film festival "Process"
    Riga
    Latvia
    March 23, 2017
Director Biography - Ieva Balode

Ieva Balode born in 1987, Riga, Latvia is an artist and film curator exploring practice of analog image making. She has graduated Latvian Academy of Art, as well as studied film and photography in Yrkeshögskolan Novia, Finland. In her artistic practice she is interested in human identity matters, which she explores through the language and philosophy of an image – both still and moving. Coming from a media and fine arts background, her works are met both in art galleries, as well as international film festivals such as Latvian Centre of Contemporary Art, Riga (2016), Бükü, Leipzig (2016), "Survival Kit" festival, Riga (2011), Museum of Photography, Riga (2013), Festival "Celebrating Transience", Kingston (2014), Festival "Zabroffka", Bialystok (2013), Festival "Fish", Rostock (2013), "Oslo Screen Festival", Oslo (2012), "New Screen – New Castle", Newcastle (2011), "Athens video art festival", Athens (2010) etc.
Ieva is also a founding member of Baltic Analog Lab - a filmmakers collective in Latvia, as well as director of Experimental film festival "Process" in Riga, Latvia.

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Director Statement

I am interested in human consciousness and transcendence within it. In my artistic practice I mainly work with analogue images - both still and moving. I am particularly interested in experimental image making in the lab and using those images to express concepts I create and live throughout my own life.