Bridges of Time

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.

Cast

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