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The 20th century dreamt of utopia but instead experienced tragedies. This film looks at San Francisco-based Latvian artist and playwright Raimonds Staprāns’ nearly century-long experience of trying to define life and statehood. It constructs an exact replica of one of his paintings, and asks actors to portray characters from his plays. Keeping in mind the symbolically charged image of the red barn in the painting, it deliberately incites arguments between the actors, the director and the crew about the motivations of the characters as well as alternative actions or decisions that they could have taken but did not.
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00:00How does it go?
00:02Running about the gleznets and the masonry,
00:08we will be able to overcome it by the way,
00:11where we go to the life of the people,
00:14when we come to the life of the people,
00:15every time we come to the life of the people,
00:19we will be able to overcome it by the people.
00:24No dabs, no galvas.
00:27Tā saka citreiz, tas nāk no debesim lejā.
00:32Viss, kas ir, vis, kas mums ir apkārt.
00:35Tu egi galantu, tu kaut ko ieraugi,
00:38tas tev atstāja iespēj,
00:42tev liekas, ka tu varētu to izmantot.
00:45Reklāma rūpniecība man ļoti iespēj,
00:48jo tur ir ļoti daudz laba ideja.
00:53That's still there as one way of the world,
00:56but it's more of the world that they've lived on the world,
00:59and one way of the world is still.
01:04You can't buy the world,
01:08but, you can't say it to all,
01:08but it's what you might have to do to put on the world,
01:10and that's an important one.
01:14They've been through the world.
01:15They will go through the path of life.
01:19You can always find that path inside you,
01:22nobody can find that path.
01:25There will find that path you need to find that path.
01:35We have to read, unsurvated now and see when it's to you, it's to you.

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