The Old Jewish Cemetery
The Netherlands, Latvia2014documentary20'Retrospektywa Sergeia Loznitsy (2018)
Employing the unhurried rhythm of editing and austere aesthetics of images, Loznitsa portrays a city park in Riga. His camera is contemplating what is missing from the frames as the park is a remnant of a former cemetery, the only trace of which is a fragment of its fence thrust into the root of a tree. Black and white photographs, long shots, fragmentary frames with abandoned alleyways – all this makes the unreal picture of Riga nowadays. It is accompanied by silence, which is interrupted only for a little while with a piece of Tchaikovsky's “Eugene Onegin” audible from a window in one of the buildings.
- directed by
- Sergei Loznitsa
Ukrainian director of documentary and fiction films. In 1987 he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. Between 1987 and 1991 he worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics. In 1997 Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. He has been making documentary films from 1996, 16 of which won awards at numerous festivals. His fiction films include My Joy and In the Fog.
- cinematography
- Serhiy Stefan Stetsenko
- script
- Sergei Loznitsa
- sound
- Vladimir Golovnitski
- editing
- Sergei Loznitsa, Danielius Kokanauskis
- production
- Maria Choustova-Baker, Sergei Loznitsa (Atoms & Void BV), Antra Gaile (Mistrus Media)
- Photo
