Video Screening Viesturs Kairiss and Ilmars Blumbergs: Magic Flute

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A forest of tall trees with thin, dark trunks cover a beige floor of sand and debris

Video still, Viesturs Kairiss And Ilmars Blumbergs, Magic Flute, 2001. Photo courtesy the artist.

Location
Bakalar Gallery
Featured Artists
Ilmars Blumbergs
Viesturs Kairiss
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This exhibition incorporates two short films revealing various facets of Riga, the capital city of Latvia.

For the film Magic Flute, director Viesturs Kairiss and stage designer Ilmars Blumbergs adopted elements from their joint production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Latvian National Opera. Laila Pakalnina’s black-and-white documentary film Papagena depicts the citizens of Riga listening to Mozart’s music (some, apparently for the first time) in the outskirts of Riga. These films were commissioned by the curator Helena Demakova for the 2001 Venice Biennale to provide a sober contrast to Riga’s 800-year anniversary celebrations.

Sponsors

The List Visual Arts Center’s programs are generously supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Council for the Arts at MIT.

Images

A forest of tall trees with thin, dark trunks cover a beige floor of sand and debris
Amongst many trees sits a large outdoor sculpture of a man’s upper body and head. Snow and dirt lightly covers the foreground
Black and white video still of a young boy wearing headphones over his ears, in front of a concrete building
Black and white video still shows a teen boy with headphones over his ears, in front of a wooden fence

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