and suddenly it all blossoms | RIGA IFF 2021, 14-24 October
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and suddenly it all blossoms

and suddenly it all blossoms Directed by: Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Dāvis Sīmanis
LV 202180' en

​​A journey into the complex world of today, full of hopes, desires, and fears for the present. The film invites us to follow a voice whose thoughts and doubts about the present become a meditation accompanied by works of art. The film features all the artworks exhibited at the second Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA2). Reminiscent of a Tarkovskyan dystopia, the united ecosystem of living nature, a disused power plant, an abandoned paintball field, warehouses, flocks of birds, cruise ships and railway tracks, makes the film’s space its own metaphor for the collapse of Soviet ideals and capitalist hopes.

This collaboration between Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, the chief curator of RIBOCA2, and director Dāvis Sīmanis, is a journey between works of art in one take. In 2020, 46 artists from around the world came together in Andrejsala in Riga, to bring the vision of the Lamarche-Vadel to life. and suddenly it all blossoms is a self-referential audiovisual stroll, an encouragement to action and collaboration following the voice of LAFAWNDAH behind the scenes and going in search of common alternatives to the collective obsession with growth, expansion and consumption.

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