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The Fairytale of Empty Space

2017 · 95 min

A quiet, contemplative portrait that unfolds like a stage being built, asking you to sit with an artist's memories of loss and creation.

Overview
Accomplished European scenographer and educator Andris Freibergs paints a self-portrait by shaping the stage for an imaginary production titled “Andris Freibergs”. He transforms himself into a space that contains close to eighty years worth of stunning success, tragic loss, birth and death. It is an attempt to create the perfect empty space – one that would simultaneously encompass everything and nothing, the beginning and the end.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • memory
  • death
  • identity
  • aging
Places
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Krista Burāne
Written by
Krista Burāne
Starring
Andris Freibergs
Cinematography
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Runtime
95 min
Country
Latvia
Languages
Latvian, Russian

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