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 witnessed 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 historiographic investigation to create a portrait of lessclearly remembered filmmakers The result is a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation Also a cinematic poem about cinema poets
