Words, My Words, 2024
100 x 100 cm
Video and sound
Filmed during five days in Riga and Jūrmala, Latvia. The video circles around late poet Vizma Belševica. Spanning from her childhood years in the 1930s until the death of her son, poet Klāvs Elsbergs in 1987. His death also marked the end of Vizma as a poet, stating “Poetry is written with the heart and my heart is dead”. In this film her second son and brother of Klāvs, poet Jānis Elsbergs, tells the story from the family apartment in Riga, where he now lives and works.
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