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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.

  • Inese Tīkmane, Laima Vainiņa
    Director
  • Inese Tīkmane, Laima Vainiņa
    Writer
  • Vika Eksta
    Key Cast
  • Sebastian Wesman
    Sound and Music
  • Inese Tīkmane, Laima Vainiņa
    Cinematography
  • Inese Tīkmane
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 29 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 3, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    Latvia
  • Country of Filming:
    Latvia
  • Shooting Format:
    Super 8mm
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Experimental Film Festival Process, Baltic Experimental program: Kino Bize, Riga, Latvia
    Rīga
    Latvia
    March 23, 2018
    Latvian premiere
    Baltic Experimental program
  • The seventh edition of the OtherMovie Lugano Film Festival
    Lugano
    Swaziland
    April 17, 2018
    Official Selection, VideoArt Contest
  • LaborBerlin
    Berlin
    Germany
    May 14, 2018
  • International Experimental Film and Video Festival BIDEODROMO 2018
    Bilbao
    Spain
    September 18, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
    Istanbul
    Turkey
    November 25, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Moscow International Experimental Film festival
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
    September 30, 2018
  • 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
    Oberhausen
    Germany
    May 6, 2019
    Labs
Director Biography - Inese Tīkmane, Laima Vainiņa

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).

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“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