Ieva Balode
filmmaker, artist, film activist
Biography
Ieva Balode (born in 1987, Riga, Latvia) is an artist and film activist working with analog, photochemical film.
With her works she takes part in international exhibitions and festivals presenting her work both in installation, as well as cinema and performance situation. As a curator she is a founding member of Baltic Analog Lab - artists collective providing a space and platform for analog film production, research and education. She is also a director of experimental film festival Process happening in Riga from year 2017.
Statement
“I am interested in human consciousness and transcendence within it. In my artistic practice I mainly work with analogue images - both still and moving. I am particularly interested in experimental image making in the lab and using those images to express concepts I create and live throughout my own life.”
Moccasin Flowers - Film. Super 8 transfered to HD, '04:35 min . 2017
Shot on Super8 black and white Tri-X film as well as expired Svema, hand-processed during year 2015 and 2016.
A film made in collaboration and dedication to the musician and hermit Orla Wren (UK)
"Moccasin Flowers" was released as an album in 2015 as dedication to musician's mother who passed away to different heavens..
Film talks about letting go the loved one and reaching out for re-connection with inner-self which has been lost during the deprivation.
Many thanks to all those taking part. Especially charming Марина Гофеншефер
