Promise Me!
Workshop
What have you learnt from the changes in recent years in Latvia and the world?
I have long been convinced that nothing valuable or good can be achieved without effort – even with just a little. There has to be some difficulty. Easy doesn’t count. The experience of the last few years has confirmed the truth of this assumption. The more difficult the better.
How does your project for in SURVIVAL KIT 2 fit in with the festival theme?
Promise me! is about city animals, which no one in the city loves. In the most direct way it is a story about survival and existence. Also about people’s survival alongside nature, which squeezes into the city through any gaps despite anything you may do, into all of us – even as dust, even as spider webs. One survival strategy may be not to leave shit behind, but if shit has happened – to clean it up yourself, without waiting to be asked, or for someone else to clean up behind you. Plus – in the end something useful may arise from any useless item (or shit).
Why haven’t you left yet?
A stupid question. What I need is only in Latvia, in terms of hills and plains, warmth and cold, brevity and length, closeness and distance, proportions of quiet and noise, which I feel every time I return home in the flowering Western European spring and from the window of the plane I see the wet snow covered Mārupe peat swamps, when in 30 degree heat I try to creep into the Baltic Sea, or on August nights, looking into the starry heavens, I’m unable to believe that it was still summer during the day.