{"id":8441,"date":"2016-08-28T16:52:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T16:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rigaiff.lv\/2016\/?p=8441"},"modified":"2016-09-28T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T17:06:42","slug":"take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2016.rigaiff.lv\/en\/take-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Take-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signe Birkova\u2019s experimental animation tells a story about a cowboy trying to navigate an urban landscape. The man\u2019s journey to the city is interrupted by a brutal force. While he has lost his senses his consciousness is confronted by the unconscious in which, transformed into a black marionette, the cowboy lives though a painful process of redemption.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe film\u2019s material consists of a 16mm film, plus fragments of Super-8 footage; the shooting process involved using the cameras \u2018Bolex\u2019, \u2018Kranogorsk\u2019 and \u2018Nizo\u2019 as well as natural materials such as salt, leather, ash, earth, various fluids, timber, minerals, fire, clay, wax, feathers, \u2018fool\u2019s gold\u2019, crystals, shungite, butterflies, horns, a chicken\u2019s leg, cosmic eruptions, urban and pastoral artefacts, and much more. No computer-generated effects were used in the film.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signe Birkova\u2019s experimental animation tells a story about a cowboy trying to navigate an urban landscape. The man\u2019s journey to the city is interrupted by a brutal force. While he has lost his senses his consciousness is confronted by the unconscious in which, transformed into a black marionette, the cowboy lives though a painful process of redemption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,35],"tags":[65,150,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2016.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2016.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2016.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2016.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2016.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2016.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9389,"href":"https:\/\/2016.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions\/9389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2016.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2016.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2016.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2016.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}