Signe Birkova Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Signe Birkova
Directing
Biography
Signe Birkova (1973) is a Latvian filmmaker from Riga, who first studied philosophy and journalism, and later received her master’s degree from the National Film School of the Latvian Academy of Culture. She has directed short, experimental, and documentary films, including works utilizing analogue technology and animation, as well as produced TV programs. Signe Birkova’s short film “Upon Return I’ll Be a Flaming Rose”, for which she also wrote the script, received a special FIPRESCI award in 2014. Notable among her works are the short sci-fi film “He Was Called Chaos Berzins”, which premiered in 2019 at both the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and PÖFF, as well as the documentary “The Ring of Fire” (2021), which tells the story of the Riga Circus.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Debesbraukšanas diena
Alma is a middle-aged woman working for a transport logistics company. She lives a well-ordered life and puts all her creativity into cleaning her house and decorating her fish tank. One day she wakes up from a vision-like dream about a flying girl. Then everything goes wrong.
I Find Myself in You
A couple that does not fit into society’s accepted norms regarding women and men. Routine problems of everyday life that tend to take on immeasurable amplitudes push the film’s leads into a most intimate confinement, one in which thoughts and the answers to problems lead to dreams.
Slush
Kārlis accidentally hits Kiril with a car and breaks Kiril’s bike. The damage must be fixed so both of them go to the repair shop, but the major master of it can’t be found. One event leads to another, one person introduces the next. The guys wander through the grey yet bustling Riga, capturing the noises, melodies and words that merge into a city’s symphony. Amidst traffic jams, the slush of melting snow, and improvised music-jams, a new, unconditional friendship is made.
Production
The Ring of Fire
New performers have recently moved into the 130-year-old building of the Riga Circus. Having built a stage in the stables, actors Ance, Āris, Klāvs, Reinis and the other members of the theatre company Kvadrifrons are reinvigorating and preserving the tradition of live art in the circus. The name of the group is an acronym in Latvian that conveys their ethos: they are an organisation that can chill with their friends, have bursts of amazing creativity, and whose members are far from unintelligent. And all the while, the strong smell of elephants wafts through the building. Here and there, the life of the previous inhabitants makes itself known. Soon shamanistic rituals alternate with clowning around, fortune-telling with illusion juggling, stagecraft with personal choices. Then suddenly, out of Nothing… emerges Theatre.
The Ring of Fire
New performers have recently moved into the 130-year-old building of the Riga Circus. Having built a stage in the stables, actors Ance, Āris, Klāvs, Reinis and the other members of the theatre company Kvadrifrons are reinvigorating and preserving the tradition of live art in the circus. The name of the group is an acronym in Latvian that conveys their ethos: they are an organisation that can chill with their friends, have bursts of amazing creativity, and whose members are far from unintelligent. And all the while, the strong smell of elephants wafts through the building. Here and there, the life of the previous inhabitants makes itself known. Soon shamanistic rituals alternate with clowning around, fortune-telling with illusion juggling, stagecraft with personal choices. Then suddenly, out of Nothing… emerges Theatre.
Pacelšanās
A brutal force interrupts the cowboy's journey to the city. In a state of unconsciousness, his consciousness is confronted with his subconscious, and the cowboy undergoes a painful ritual of self-purification.
Pacelšanās
A brutal force interrupts the cowboy's journey to the city. In a state of unconsciousness, his consciousness is confronted with his subconscious, and the cowboy undergoes a painful ritual of self-purification.
Pacelšanās
A brutal force interrupts the cowboy's journey to the city. In a state of unconsciousness, his consciousness is confronted with his subconscious, and the cowboy undergoes a painful ritual of self-purification.
Pacelšanās
A brutal force interrupts the cowboy's journey to the city. In a state of unconsciousness, his consciousness is confronted with his subconscious, and the cowboy undergoes a painful ritual of self-purification.
Pacelšanās
A brutal force interrupts the cowboy's journey to the city. In a state of unconsciousness, his consciousness is confronted with his subconscious, and the cowboy undergoes a painful ritual of self-purification.
Lotus
Alice von Trota returns to her father’s manor in Latvia in 1919 to sell it and start a new life. She meets the hostile resistance of the local workers and discovers she has been lured into a carefully tailored trap set by a demonic lawyer, a decadent underground organisation and its necrophile leader. While escaping the clutches of her “helpers”, she meets some silent-cinema enthusiasts and learns to use the cinematograph as a tool for healing and self-discovery, as a weapon against her enemies and as a way to create a masterpiece.
Lotus
Alice von Trota returns to her father’s manor in Latvia in 1919 to sell it and start a new life. She meets the hostile resistance of the local workers and discovers she has been lured into a carefully tailored trap set by a demonic lawyer, a decadent underground organisation and its necrophile leader. While escaping the clutches of her “helpers”, she meets some silent-cinema enthusiasts and learns to use the cinematograph as a tool for healing and self-discovery, as a weapon against her enemies and as a way to create a masterpiece.
He Was Called Chaos Berzins
Harry Berzins is abducted by aliens. Traumatic experience gained is on a foreign planet, where the gray race rules and makes Berzins feel excluded. The only creature he believes is the odd Ufologist Vilma Kavace. While Vilma uses Berzins as an alien attraction bait, his mother, impregnated with a Latvian sperm on another planet, carries his child. Shieet.
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