Pa Rubika Celu
Laila Pakalniņa
Latvia | 2010 | 30 min
Language : Latvian
Subtitle : English
Rubiks’ Road is a bicycle path built in the 1980s and named after Alfreds Rubiks, leader of the Latvian Communist party at the time. One of the most ferocious opposers to Latvia’s independence in the early 1990s and later elected to the European Parliament. “A film about a world that walks, runs, crawls, sits, rides, flies. And falls. A living world.” (LP)
Rubiks’ Road is a bicycle path built in the 1980s and named after Alfreds Rubiks, leader of the Latvian Communist party at the time. One of the most ferocious opposers of Latvia’s independence in the early 1990s and later elected to the European Parliament, representing the country he was against. “I don’t intend to surpass the Lumière brothers with this film. Crazily enough - in most of my documentaries I am imitating the Lumières. So I will take the liberty of indicating the ways in which Pa Rubika Celu differs from, for example, L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat. Though there are trains in my film too, it’s a different film, and not only because there is no steam locomotive. In this film it’s life as seen through my eyes, and not those of the Lumières. It’s a film about a world that walks, runs, crawls, sits, rides, flies. And falls. A living world.” Laila Pakalnina
