It’s About Time
Ivo Briedis (2015) 6′

Film title: It’s About Time (Laiks iet)
Director, Script: Ivo Briedis
Music: Colin Stetson
Puppet: Valdis Brože,
Set design: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, Valdis Brože
Animator: Olga Bulgakova
Sound design: Ģirts Bišs
Editing: Edmunds Jansons
Compositing: Dāvis Rudzāts
Creative producer: Edmunds Jansons
Producer: Sabine Andersone
Financial Support: National film Centre of Latvia, State Culture Capital Fondation

Animation Technique: Puppet Animation
No dialogues and subtitles
Lenght: 6’
Country of Production: Latvia
Year: 2015
Financial Support: National film Centre of Latvia, State Culture Capital Fondation

Logline

A message brought by the wind urges a lonely man to go out to the city, but there is someone who does not want him to leave the room.

Synopsis

“It’s about time,” says a message stuck by the wind to the window pane. These words urge the lonely man to go out to the city but there is someone who does not let him leave the room. The film is about time which we cannot stop, but which can stop us. Or may be not.

Director’s statement

This film is an invitation for the viewer to ponder the line that separates the free choice of a human being and the will of higher powers – and whether such a distinction actually exists. I would like the title – ‘It’s About Time’ – to be interpreted both as an internal urge to go forth and an encouragement from outside, and the content of the film – to fill the space between these two possibilities. That is why the film shows a clash between two characters, man and time. Time is embodied in the film in the mobile boundary between light and darkness; it is intrusive and relentless, and yet it is this boundary that has tempered and polished this man, transforming him into a genuine work of art: the puppet is an exquisite piece of jewellery, created exclusively from noble materials – mammoth tusk, silver, gold, crystal. The message that I am trying to convey with my film is that not only we live in time, but time itself is made of us: that is, people dissipate, creating the atmosphere where their posterity will live. Whether the film is about the end or the beginning, light or darkness, about freezing or about freedom – that is for every viewer to decide.