Bridges of Time

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them. This meditative documentary essay – from a Latvian writer and Lithuanian director whose composed touch has long dovetailed with the stylistically diverse works of the Baltic New Wave – pushes adroitly past the limits of the common his-toriographic investigation to create a portrait of less-clearly remembered filmmakers. The result is a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation. Also a cinematic poem about cinema poets.

• Giedrius PuskunigisOriginal Music Composer
• Audrius StonysDirector
• Kristine BriedeDirector
• Kristine BriedeWriter
• Ramunė RakauskaitėWriter
• Arūnas MatelisWriter
• Riho VästrikWriter

• Herz FrankSelf (archive footage)
• Uldis BraunsSelf
• Ivars SeleckisSelf
• Mark SoosaarSelf
• Andres SöötSelf
• Robertas VerbaSelf (archive footage)
• Henrikas ŠablevičiusSelf (archive footage)
• Aivars FreimanisSelf