RIGA IFF: Vima Vendersa īsfilmu izlase

The effect of film and photography is the belief of Wim Wenders. It is wrong to write this sentence in the past tense when describing the director's ambitious, nearly 60-year career. RIGA IFF offers a look into the young German cinema pioneer's belief in experiments in his early stages – image alterations, their bets with color, capricious fusions with sound and shots that mark personal angles. The rare classicist can be proud of such an organized filmography, which has been researched and analyzed, shown and restored - Wenders himself has carefully protected and given the opportunity to everyone, including RIGA IFF viewers, to see his short works, because the films are "personal, not private". The sample period (1967-1982) covers Wenders' studios in Munich, Federal Republic of Germany, when his work was seemingly out of the ordinary for the big screen and ambitious for the altars of contemporary art (the films The Shooter Fires Again (1967) and Returning to the Silver City (1968 )). The thread continues with his reflection on his first experience as a director in the US, as evidenced by the montage film Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 (1982). As an epilogue in Wenders' selection of short films, the thoughts of his contemporaries resonate in the short film "Room No. 666" (1982), where his German colleagues with whom he worked and were with - Werner Herzog and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who passed away a month after the film was shot at the Cannes Film Festival, enter the small hotel room.

Recommended age: 12+
Screen language: German, French, English, Portuguese, Italian
Subtitle language: English
Synonymous translation: Latvian
Show length: 116 min
Wheelchair space: yes

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