PURCHASE TICKET<\/a><\/div>\n*Doors open at 7PM to a gathering Splendid Palace Versailles Hall<\/span><\/em><\/p>\nThe cinematic story about the contemporary Riga initiated and conducted by two directors of Echo Park Film Center<\/strong> \u2013 Paolo Davanzo<\/strong> and Lisa Marr<\/strong> \u2013 is being elaborated by Agnese Krivade, Aigars Bik\u0161e, Anda L\u0101ce, Ansis Starks, Atis J\u0101kobsons, Evel\u012bna Ozola, Gun\u0101rs Binde, Ieva Epnere, J\u0101nis Putni\u0146\u0161, Karl\u012bna V\u012btoli\u0146a, Katr\u012bna Neiburga, Kristi\u0101ns Brekte, Kri\u0161s Salmanis, Maija Kur\u0161eva, M\u0101rti\u0146\u0161 Grauds, Mi\u0137elis Ba\u0161tiks, Mi\u0137elis Putni\u0146\u0161, Pauls Bankovskis, MAREUNROL’S, Sergejs Timofejevs, Odrija Fi\u0161ere, Signe Birkova, Viesturs Meik\u0161\u0101ns<\/strong> and Andris Freibergs<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe representatives of various art disciplines will learn the 16mm filmmaking technique and each of them will immortalize their Riga city-portrait in the course of a day and night as one minute on film. These segments will later be assembled into a 24-minute black-and-white short film \u2013 an emotional journey through the city, musically enlivened by the composer Platons Buravickis<\/strong>. The premiere at the RIGA IFF Opening Night will also be a concert as the music composed for this occasion will be interpreted live \u2013 simultaneously with the images on screen.<\/p>\nThe Echo Park Film Center has already produced similar projects in Tokyo, Rotterdam, London, Seoul, Berlin, Mexico City, Vancouver<\/strong> and elsewhere, each time discovering something new about the city in its diversity as well as about the film art\u2019s poetic potential that becomes available within this project not only to cinematographers but also to the representatives of other fields of art. Although the project draws upon the \u201cCity Symphony\u201d genre practiced by the great Walter Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov in the beginning of the twentieth century, \u201cSound We See\u201d reaches further in its concept by involving the different personalities and presenting the city as a truly vibrant, dynamically functioning organism.<\/p>\nProject \u201cSound We See: Riga\u201d is supported by the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation, the State Culture Capital Foundation, and Live Riga in co-operation with Locomotive Productions, Baltic Analog Lab and manufacturer \u201c\u0112renpreiss Bicycles\u201d.<\/p>\nThe Riga International Film Festival is being developed with support of the European Commission’s programme \u201cCreative Europe \u2013 MEDIA\u201d, the National Film Centre of Latvia, Riga City Council, and the State Culture Capital Foundation. <\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RIGA IFF OPENING EVENT FRIDAY, 8 \/ 09 \/ 2017 SOUND WE SEE: R\u012aGA 20:00* SPLENDID PALACE LARGE HALL This year on September 8 at the Opening Night of the Riga International Film Festival the art and culture website Arterritory.com in collaboration with Echo Park Film Center, a Los Angeles-based media arts organization, will premiere an audiovisual project Sound We See: Riga. Its participants are 24 inhabitants of Riga: artists, photographers, musicians, writers. A VERY LIMITED AMOUNT OF TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE OPENING EVENT \u2013 BALCONY SEATS ONLY. TICKET PRICE \u2013 7\u20ac PURCHASE TICKET *Doors open at 7PM to a gathering Splendid Palace Versailles Hall The cinematic story about the contemporary Riga initiated and conducted by two directors of Echo Park Film Center \u2013 Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr \u2013 is being elaborated by Agnese Krivade, Aigars Bik\u0161e, Anda L\u0101ce, Ansis Starks, Atis J\u0101kobsons, Evel\u012bna Ozola, Gun\u0101rs Binde, Ieva Epnere, J\u0101nis Putni\u0146\u0161, Karl\u012bna V\u012btoli\u0146a, Katr\u012bna Neiburga, Kristi\u0101ns Brekte, Kri\u0161s Salmanis, Maija Kur\u0161eva, M\u0101rti\u0146\u0161 Grauds, Mi\u0137elis Ba\u0161tiks, Mi\u0137elis Putni\u0146\u0161, Pauls Bankovskis, MAREUNROL’S, Sergejs Timofejevs, Odrija Fi\u0161ere, Signe Birkova, Viesturs Meik\u0161\u0101ns and Andris Freibergs. The representatives of various art disciplines will learn the 16mm filmmaking technique and each of them will immortalize their Riga city-portrait in the course of a day and night as one minute on film. These segments will later be assembled into a 24-minute black-and-white short film \u2013 an emotional journey through the city, musically enlivened by the composer Platons Buravickis. The premiere at the RIGA IFF Opening Night will also be a concert as the music composed for this occasion will be interpreted live \u2013 simultaneously with the images on screen. The Echo Park Film Center has already produced similar projects in Tokyo, Rotterdam, London, Seoul, Berlin, Mexico City, Vancouver and elsewhere, each time discovering something new about the city in its diversity as well as about the film art\u2019s poetic potential that becomes available within this project not only to cinematographers but also to the representatives of other fields of art. Although the project draws upon the \u201cCity Symphony\u201d genre practiced by the great Walter Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov in the beginning of the twentieth century, \u201cSound We See\u201d reaches further in its concept by involving the different personalities and presenting the city as a truly vibrant, dynamically functioning organism. Project \u201cSound We See: Riga\u201d is supported by the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation, the State Culture Capital Foundation, and Live Riga in co-operation with Locomotive Productions, Baltic Analog Lab and manufacturer \u201c\u0112renpreiss Bicycles\u201d. The Riga International Film Festival is being developed with support of the European Commission’s programme \u201cCreative Europe \u2013 MEDIA\u201d, the National Film Centre of Latvia, Riga City Council, and the State Culture Capital Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2017.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2017.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2017.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2017.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2017.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12723"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/2017.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14151,"href":"https:\/\/2017.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723\/revisions\/14151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2017.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2017.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2017.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2017.rigaiff.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}