Where Did They Disappear?

Director: Kristine Briede (LT)
Genre: Documentary
Latvia, 2001 / 7 min (DV), b/w & sound

The Film
The film is inspired by old photos that were found by the author, walking the steps of the abandoned block houses of Karosta (Warharbour). It is a former military base that ended its existence, as such, back in 1994, when the Soviet troops left Latvia. Huge skeletons with blind, black window eyes, stairs without handrails, rooms without floors…all empty. People have taken everything, but left traces that tell their stories.

Kristine Briede
Kristine Briede (b. 1970 in Cesis, Latvia). 1991-1995 she worked in the Nordic Information Office in Riga, as an interpreter and translator of Norwegian literature and as a writer and photographer for Latvian press. From 1995 on she has been working with © Locomotive filmmakers collective as a producer, writer and director. From 2000 on she has been living and working in Karosta, Liepaja as one of the initiators and founders of "The Culture and Information Center K@2" in Karosta. She is also a co-founder of the New Media and Culture Center in Riga, RIXC.

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