ArtDoc & ProArt
07.03. – 09.03.2025
The Artdoc&Proart program at IDFF Artdocfest/Riga is a unique platform that brings together the worlds of documentary cinema and contemporary art, creating a space for experimentation, bold explorations, and new forms of expression. The films in this program challenge traditional documentary formats and seek innovative ways to depict reality, transcending the boundaries between cinema, performance, visual art, and philosophy.
This program invites viewers to reconsider their perspectives on identity, the environment, and the significance of art, offering captivating and thought-provoking cinematic experiences.
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Film screenings
7 March, 18.00
Free with prior registration.
“I, Rosinski”, 2024, directed by Piotr Kielar
Movie language – Polish, subtitles in English.
A brilliant end to the cartoonist’s career. Lately contemporary miniaturist painter. The end of Thorgal, spin offs and one shots. A titan of night shift work in observation scenes is struggling to retire. The path leads through two original boards. Comic pages improved over the years (selected from one hundred), after the very last of Thorgal’s albums. Unexpected end with a cartoon epitaph. Master leaves on his own terms, in the style of heroic fantasy, his favorite.
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“Tempest: Peter Roche and the Nuclear Uncanny”, 2024, directed by Bridget Sutherland
Movie language – English.
How many artists question technology, especially military technology? This film is named for the nuclear industrial storm imagined inside the concrete silo where the NZ artist Peter Roche staged his final installation ‘Asylum’, a daring collection of works that speak to the nuclear uncanny and the dangers underscoring our new radioactive world. ‘Tempest’ is dedicated to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
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7 March, 20.00
Free with prior registration.
“Kaarina, Waves, Life, Shirts”, 2023, directed by Alberto Valtellina
Movie language – English and Italian, subtitles in English.
This is the story of how, quite unpredictably, Finnish visual artist Kaarina Kaikkonen met the Italian theatre group “Teatro tascabile di Bergamo” for the creation of a participatory work of art. The story is told through images of the meetings, interviews, stories, and the ‘cultural barter’ that was put in place in order to collect the hundreds of shirts that were necessary for the work’s complex construction. The film shows the human relationships, personal memories, affections and exchanges that this long preparatory work created, or revived. A triple portrait is thus painted: of the visual artist, of the acting company, and of the community that welcomed these relationships. The outcome of the work is thus something like ‘a living fabric’. Theatre, this film tells us, is not necessarily an ephemeral event. It is indeed an art ‘with a tail’, that is, a form of art that lives long in the processes it activates.
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“In Between Realities”, 2023, directed by Carin Goeijers
Movie language – English and Dutch, subtitles in English.
How does technology transform humanity? Do we need a body to be human? In his multidisciplinary work, Dutch opera composer Michel van der Aa explores the big themes of our digitised age and contemplates existential questions in the border area between humans, machines and consciousness.
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“Somber Tides”, 2024, directed by Chantal Caron
The movie is without spoken dialogue.
A cry from the species, startled into survival against the elements. One last breath before being trampled by the Earth or maybe conversely a battle to wage against winds and tides clutching on before extinction.
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