Meeting with Roze Stiebra

Until November 20th, the Aleksejs Naumovs painting exhibition “The Law of the Heart in Metropolises” can be viewed at the Ojārs Vācietis Museum, and part of the exhibition includes sketches created by the artist for director Roze Stiebra's animation film “The Law of the Heart”. To conclude the exhibition, on November 20th at 4:00 PM, the Ojārs Vācietis Museum (Riga, Ojārs Vācietis Street 19) invites you to meet with director Roze Stiebra.

Roze Stiebra met Ojārs Vācietis in 1983 while working on adapting his children's poetry for the animated film “Pocket”. It was one of the first drawn animation films in the history of Latvian cinema. For the film's premiere, the poet Ojārs Vācietis wrote a Manifesto dedicated to the new work and genre. At that time, the film’s artist Laima Eglīte also included the poet in the “Pocket” character gallery, and in the film, the poet can be recognized in a black beret, smiling in the setting of Arcadia Park, as characters from the film fly out of his coat pocket.

“Pocket” is another crossroads inviting to meet Roze Stiebra at the Vācietis house.

“As we await the solstice, there is a thirst for the sun. The image of the sun is present in Roze's visual dramaturgy, and like the Sun itself, she nourishes her children – viewers, like-minded people – with light,” adds event organizer Dace Micāne-Zālīte.

Regarding the film “The Sun Rode into the Sky”, Roze Stiebra has said: “For more than three years, we have followed the Sun's path in the sky – that's how we could figuratively describe the time spent creating the film. This was a special journey because the centenary of Latvia's existence was always alongside us, directly or indirectly influencing us all. Therefore, it seemed so fitting to create a film about light and darkness while waiting for it – because light is beautiful, but darkness is magical and alluring like a mystery. This film is not about good and evil – it is about the diversity of life and how crucial it is not to forget and not to lose the most important things.”

“We invite you to meet with the director, and I would like to say, the philosopher of animation art. She paints words, writes scripts like weaving, endlessly shimmering the Tree of Dawn, where she fuses image, word, and thought into a poetic core,” says Dace Micāne-Zālīte.

“An evening with Roze Stiebra is like rushing upwards, to where the sun is, where the spiritual vertical of folk songs and the path of the artist's mission lie. Walking it, one truly sees the Latvian and universal world she has built – the world of Roze Stiebra's art.”

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