2ANNAS FILM NIGHTS AT NABAKLAB

I HEPENING WITH M.Z. 25.05., 20:00, language: Latvian

("Sūtņu sazvērastība", 1965; "Motociklu vasara", 1975, "Hepenings ar M.Z.", 1987)

II GLORY BOX VOL.1, VOL.2 26.05.,22:00, language: English, Latvian

GLORY BOX VOL.1 SHORT FILM PROGRAMME:

GOLD DIGGER 2
Latvia 2010, 3:30
Director: Inese Vēriņa

Gold Digger is a young woman seeking or attaching herself to a rich and/or powerful older man who will support her. Of course, it is hard to find and get one of them...

THE MULTIPLITUDE IS FEVERISH
Germany, 2010, 17:52
Director: Vika Kirchenbauer

The diary-based film reveals itself as a poetically sharp portrait of a gender-blurring person who purposely misses her connecting flight “for no particular reason”. Fluidly shifting between various perspectives, styles and time stages, the borders between subjectivity and objectivity become as obsolete as those between inner and outer world.

SILENCE
Finland, Latvia 2009, 6:15
Director: Ieva Balode

Visual poem about human will to find silence in a common life.

AN ANT
Finland, 2010, 23:45
Director: Kimmo Alakunnas

Short dance film.

CRAFTSMEN

Latvia, 2009, 22:47

Dirctor: Ivars Blanks

The movie is based on a true life. Each of movie’s character are looking for his luck but finally finds craftsmen in himself.

BLIND ALLEY
Latvia, 2010, 33:02
Director: Artūrs Bērziņš

Movie is allegory consisting of many allegories about relationships between people who „cannot stand being without each other, yet cannot stand being together”.

ROOT
Estonia, 2009, 10:20
Director: Helen Takkin

A woman living in a post war totalitarian world attempts to defy the military rule by secretly raising an illegal flower.

NOWHERENOW
Germany, 2009, 13:07
Director: Volker Schmitt

A young reporter is lured to the ocean by a self-appointed professor who claims to have a groundbreaking science project to present. But when the two characters finally meet face to face, nothing is as it seems to be. And what started off as a simple interview situation on the beach becomes now a struggle for believe and life itself - in a ludicrous way.

SIMPLY GIRL
Russia, 2009, 15:00
Director: Taisia Reshetnikova

The girl considers herself not as the simply, usual girl. To prove this to herself and to others, she is ready to go on radical changes in her appearance and to do courageous acts. But whether is she ready to consequences of her decisions?

WORLD DISSOLVES INTO FACTS
Latvia, 2010, 8:19
Director: Jānis Žogots

Currents of subconscious mind tend to interact with each other creating the most unmotivated actions. Unmotivated for an outside viewer.

STAINED
Israel, 2009, 21:32
Director: Eti Tsicko

In love with her cousin Gela, 17 year old Ilana dreams of a different life, away from her family's strict Georgian traditions. One crucial night changes it all.
Will she be strong enough to change her fate?

GLORY BOX VOL.2 SHORT FILM PROGRAMME:

PASSING
United Kingdom, 2009, 9:38
Director: Seong Jun Lee

Nostalgic Journey Through Coloured Silhouettes.

FASHION DEATH

Spain, 2007, 4:53

Director: Daniel Rodrigo

Isn’t it absurd that the death worries about it’s physical appearance and is scared of the social exclusion?

Isn’t it absurd that the death as consumer doesn’t care ecological balance? Isn’t it absurd that the death is reflecting human defects/faults? Humans, who are they? Absurd, in an absurd world.

PEANUTS
Germany, 2010, 5:05
Director Tim Romanowsky

Peanuts is a graphic revision of a 1929 Ub Iwerks Film. Figures and elements flow together in a new, dissolved world without rules.

HUGO
Latvia, 2010, 4:11
Director: Maija and Liene Mackus

Story is about nervy women and men ...philosophers. Music video for band Very Cool People.

BIKER DUDE
Latvia, 2009, 5:19
Director: Adrian Pese

The authorities want to hunt him down...Good looking women want to seduce him…He is on the ride..
His name is...

TRILOGY: HERO IS COMING
Latvia, 2010, 6:24
Director: Inese Verina, Aija Bley

The hero always arrives on time.

UNBIDDEN VISITORS
Latvia, 2010, 9:04
Director: Zane Pērkone

When the unbidden visitors are arriving at the garage complex, guard does his duty.

THE HUMAN BODY
United Kingdom, 2009, 6:55
Director Sally Stevens

Animation about workings of human body.

HAPPINESS
Latvia, 2010, 9:24
Director: Edgars Oļševskis

Some of those, seemingly important, noble and good things we are doing, from an "absolute perspective" may turn out to be an unbelievable nonsense.

2009 IN 365 SECONDS
Sweden, 2010, 6:23
Director Karl Larsson

10 minutes of intense silence
Memories, pictures, the intense silence in the “10 minutes of intense silence” are data base of memories represented into a flickering film. This film is about me and my friends, family my planet my mini universe!

BLACK SNOW
Latvia, 2010, 2:31
Director Jānis Opuls

A surreal journey through black and white world.

SPACE POODLE

Latvia, 2009, 1:46

Directo: Inese Vēriņa

Space Poodle is living in the space. Suddenly, Space Poodle got an urgent need, what takes him to Earth.

EULOGY
Australia, 2009, 7:00
Director Ben Claremont

An old man slowly chases a flock of pigeons. A whole life's story is told in just a few seconds.

CIRCUMSCALPO
Sweden, 2009, 1:27
Director Davis Dors

Experimental short film done in directanimation technique. How moves the lightened?

JARDIN DES PLATES
Germany, 2009, 6:05
Director Oscar Loeser

If you imagine to die, as a long process far from fear and pain this film is the visualization of it. Land and cityscapes melt together with dance and sound.

ENDFILM
Germany, 2009, 5:22
Director Martin Sulzer

Somewhere in the lost space between 3D-experimentation, dance performance and art video clip,
the artist performs, captures and animates a both disturbing and poetically intense piece
of body studies and gender issues.

MENTAL LAXATIVE
Spain, 2010, 12:52
Director Daniel Rodrigo

Self-esteem is being able to see all your abilities and weaknesses together, accepting them and doing your best with what you have. Mental laxatives are the social vaccines to promote people brimming with self-esteem. In the uncertain times of a new media revolution,: human beings with high self confidence making independent decisions, taking risks, vigorously pursuing new ideas, and acting on their own initiative are needed to take on the world for the 21st century.

EPT

France, 2010, 8:52

Director Gauthier Hortense

EPT is an experimental digital video which questions the connection between the birth of writing from ancient civilizations and the esoteric and spiritual dimensions of language, to build an immersive visual and sound poem.

LIVING IN A MONOCHROMATIC WORLD
United States, 2010, 3:04
Director Valerie Lisyansky

Living In A Monochromatic World is a visual and audio celebration of better living through chemical escapism. An absurd but good-natured parody of our pharmaceutically-overrun lives, it is a world where the smiling and dapper-suited business men of yesterday sell us magical green pills that promise a life of liberation, joy, and perpetual partying.