Darkness
The girl in a summer day left alone by the lake meets her inner darkness. While drowning in her thoughts she falls in daydream, mind tricks itself, reality becomes delusional. The animal, beautiful spirit comes to save here.
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Inese Tīkmane, Laima VainiņaDirector
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Inese Tīkmane, Laima VainiņaWriter
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Vika EkstaKey Cast
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Sebastian WesmanSound and Music
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Inese Tīkmane, Laima VainiņaCinematography
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Inese TīkmaneEditor
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Genres:Drama
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Runtime:4 minutes 29 seconds
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Completion Date:March 3, 2018
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Country of Origin:Latvia
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Country of Filming:Latvia
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Shooting Format:Super 8mm
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Film Color:Black & White
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Experimental Film Festival Process, Baltic Experimental program: Kino Bize, Riga, LatviaRīga
Latvia
March 23, 2018
Latvian premiere
Baltic Experimental program -
The seventh edition of the OtherMovie Lugano Film FestivalLugano
Swaziland
April 17, 2018
Official Selection, VideoArt Contest -
LaborBerlinBerlin
Germany
May 14, 2018 -
International Experimental Film and Video Festival BIDEODROMO 2018Bilbao
Spain
September 18, 2018
Official Selection -
Istanbul International Experimental Film FestivalIstanbul
Turkey
November 25, 2018
Official Selection -
Moscow International Experimental Film festivalMoscow
Russian Federation
September 30, 2018 -
65th International Short Film Festival OberhausenOberhausen
Germany
May 6, 2019
Labs
Inese Tīkmane born in Riga, Latvia is an artist and filmmaker working with analog and digital image. She is a graduate of Baltic Film and Media school (Tallinn University), holding MA degree in Arts with specialization in Cinematography. Inese is a co-founder and active member of Baltic Analog Lab (artists collective from Riga, Latvia engaged with analog imagemaking - both still and moving). She also takes part as artist in expanded cinema performances using 16mm film loops to accompany other performing artists (musicians, poets etc.).
Laima Vainiņa (1990) is a visual artist who works and experiments with analog film and photography. She received a B.A. in Audio-visual Culture and Performing art from the Latvian Academy of Culture in 2016. She has graduated from two-year program of contemporary photography at the ISSP School in 2016. She also is a member of Baltic Analog Lab (artists collective from Riga, Latvia engaged with analog imagemaking - both still and moving).
“That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity—that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.”
― Charles Baudelaire