SHORT RIGA #BMV screening-slash-party
The festival and the curators of SHORT RIGA are experimenting with the form of a screenining this year. The the only screening of the Baltic Music Video Competition will be held at the Festival Club – the Splendid Palace downstairs screening hall turned restaurant and bar – Cafe Film Noir. Expect the creators of the videos, the musicians behind the music, members of the International jury and the whole Riga IFF family for this party of moving pictures and loud music!
Capacity of Cafe Film Noir is limited – be sure to get your ticket and arrive early if you want to see all the videos and meet all the authors!
“For the second year the SHORT RIGA Baltic Music Video competition presents the diversity of the Baltic music videos. The programme includes various musical styles and increasingly diverse video solutions, but what unites them all is the rhythm – sometimes it really feels as if the screen is pulsating.
On one hand, the programme is characterized by a high level of self-irony and unpretentiousness in terms of content and form, while on the other hand, splendour and flamboyance. Again this year there are many songs in the national languages, and thematically they also often touch on the national identity.
The programme marks music videos in the Baltics as a platform used for many purposes, including to deal with history, promote own country, or experiment with analog material in video environment. Such a kaleidoscopic perspective on what is happening on the Baltic music video scene helps take note of new talents as well as long-awaited musical returns.”
AGNESE LOGINA, curator, SHORT RIGA Baltic Music Video Competition
INTERNATIONAL JURY:
RAITIS ĀBELE
Latvian filmmaker who’s studied at New York Film Academy and coincidentally has also obtained a professional degree in Clinical Psychology. Hold tight, music video creators!
TORUNN NYEN
Curator, member of the programme committee at The Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad and at Movies on War in Elverum.
SAULIUS BARADINSKAS
Independent filmmaker and music video director (and last year’s #BMV winner) from Vilnius.
AIGA LEITHOLDE
Artist management professional and editor at parmuziku.lv – the fresh Latvian online magazine that reviews records and does essays on music.
MĀRTIŅŠ GRAUDS
Latvian director specializing in music video, fashion shorts and documentaries.
JANARS ARONIJA
PATIENCE
by I WEAR* EXPERIMENT
Through the eyes of two young protagonists we witness the passionate peak and the confusing downfall of first love.
EDGARS ŠUBROVSKIS, OSKARS UPENIEKS
EVA EVA
by ANSAMBLIS MANTA
There are so many inns and rent apartments whose interiors inspire bizzare feelings and actions. It isn’t always possible to capture this abnormal behaviour on the road with a professional camera so the creators decided to downgrade all of the material to that filmed with but a cellphone.
IVAR MURD
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS
by ZEBRA ISLAND
The morning after a the party. Or is the party still on?
RIMAS SAKALAUSKAS
DOUKIT MEDALĮ
by ANTIS
A new video created for a song by a band from the Lithuanian Independence movement (Sąjūdis) in the late eighties and commemorates their oeuvre.
ZANE ZELMENE
SNIEGAVĪRS
by GAS OF LATVIA
When the moon disappears, the sky is the darkest, and one can observe millions of stars in the heart of the Snowman.
PIJUS VEBERIS
NO REAL PIONEERS
by CLOUDS BELOW
An experimental and musical adventure.
DREE
SUPERHAIPS
by OZOLS
Filmed in Northern Ireland, Silent Valley nature reserve, and Belfast. It is notable that the video features DeLorean DMC-12 from Back To The Future.
AUGUST VARUSTIN
BEEF GRINDER
by LEXSOUL DANCEMACHINE
This young animator got knee-deep into funk already when visualizing Misha Panfilov Sound Combo’s Planetarium. A fan of Family Guy and Don Hertzfeldt, he’s set to bring these influences to life with a lot of cartoon drawing.
MARTYNAS ENČIUS
TU MANO VASARA
by ANTIKVARINAI KASPIROVSKIO DANTYS
The video is said to be a “true documentary”.
ADRIANA ROZE
GET LIVE
by BANDMASTER
A surrealistic story set in a dystopian world where all individuality is supressed and among many of the rules loose hair is taboo. An absurd dry land synchronized swimming team is being evaluated by the representatives of a seemingly totalitarian government.
TOMM¥ €A$H
WINALOTO
by TOMM¥ €A$H
Rhythmic insanity, countless bare bodies, and one of the world’s most flexible rappers.
JĀNIS ĀBELE
CEHA DISPEČERAM
by STŪRĪ ZĒVELE
Inspired by and dedicated to La Jetée (a photographic film by Chris Marker – featured also in this festival’s programme IN KINO VERITAS) this music video-slash-experimental short is a love-story about two people who possibly never even met each other.
LUKAS ŠIDLAUSKAS
LIETUVOS ISTORIJOS REPAS
by SVENTINIS BANKUCHENAS
This rap song documents the history of Lithuania from the the first mention of the country in 1009 to the present day.
LUIS VELASCO
PATINKA
by JURGIS DID, MARTYNAS LEVICKIS & COLOMBIAN BARBERS SYNDICATE
Lithuanian is amongst the oldest languages spoken today. A good way to preserve this cultural heritage is to share it, even if it finds itself in unconventional places or rolled off of unorthodox tongues.
NORMUNDS GRIESTIŅŠ, KRISTĪNE VĪTOLA
BESTEST THEATRE
by TV MASKAVA
This is the video version of TV Maskava’s track from a video commercial that advertises music sythesizers made in Latvia.
