What is that? A swan sign? Not quite. It is the Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS.
This year, the festival once again features a STandART video – Tālbraucēja Šofera Sapnis (Fernfahrertraum) (2003) is included in the program ‘Naive Cinema: True Cinema’ (K. Suns Cinema, April 15 at 17:30).
‘Naive Cinema: True Cinema’ is a selection of 21st-century Latvian amateur films and video works, characterized by lightness of form, naive yet daring techniques, and, most importantly, a genuine joy in the filmmaking process—without aspirations toward fame or fortune.
More information at the festival 2ANNAS webpage: https://www.2annas.lv
We tried to remember all STandART video festival appearances. Quite a long list! Only now, 20 years later, we accidentally discovered a STandART video festival screening in Barcelona back in 2006. Full list of STandART video festival appearances HERE.
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Focus programme Naive Cinema: True Cinem curator Rudolfs Deinats highlights the film “Tālbraucēja sapnis”:
“Although this is formally a music video, I believe it captures the very essence of the Naive Cinema programme. It presents an extremely simple, slightly absurd premise, yet remains intriguing and, I would say, existentially moving. Across the programme, several works reflect and mirror so-called serious cinema.
What is most fascinating — and at the same time somewhat bittersweet — is the fact that French cult director Quentin Dupieux, with his film Rubber, broke into the world of independent cinema using almost the same core concept as Tālbraucēja šofera sapnis. This happened three years after the premiere of the STandART video. So who copied whom?”
Tickets: https://www.bilesuserviss.lv/…/2annas-isff-fokuss… and 2annas.lv
