The primordial world and its creation manifest in abstract movement and imagery. A being emerges from the darkest depths of the earth. It watches the skies, carves history into stone, cradles seashells and foretells that which we have long known. Who are the strange guests it awaits? Could it be us?

Created by Margoite and Daksis, this oneiric and tumultuous visual meditation on the first human is a Dadaist play with time and history. Photo and video artist Margoite’s short film The Silva Method (2023) was screened in the National Short Film Competition at RIGA IFF. It can confidently be said that Margoite is a kind of Baltic Germaine Dulac, reflecting in her latest work the motifs and characters of Dulac’s emblematic film The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928).