International premiere

TESA MAN

Local title
TESA MAN
Original title
TESA MAN
Director
Uģis Olte
Country
Latvia
Year
2024
Festival
28th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
Rebels with a Cause Competition
Genre
experimental
Subject
art, mysticism

Post-metal squall of Tesa, set to the slow-motion rhythm of a dying world.

I
The band – Tesa – plugs straight into the veins of the planet, touching upon the ancient pulse slowly becoming lost and forgotten. Art born out of surroundings, in sync with nature. It’s a message back: we’re here to listen. A signal to the universe.
Primordial. Preverbal.
II
The man looks on in anguish. A need arises to commit and to serve. Inspired to carve a new world out of clay, wood and mud, on the ruins of the old. Build it, and they will come.
Texture. Structure.
III
The spirit emerges from the grit and grain of the earth; liberated by music, reborn in dance. Herald of the better times ahead.
Nurture. Future.

All become one in Uģis Olte’s experimental music film that proves again: music can make the world go round and also stop it. Witness.

Tristan Priimägi

Director
Uģis Olte
Screenwriter
Uģis Olte
Cast
Andris Eglītis, Dace Eversa, Dārta Cīrule, Elizabete Milta, Agate Marija Bukša, Klāvs Mellis, Kitija Geidāne
Producer
Paula Jansone, Annija Korpa, Līva Vernere, Henriks Eliass Zēgners, Uldis Cekulis
Cinematographer
Jānis Šēnbergs, Aleksandrs Okonovs, Andrejs Strokins, Baiba Kļava, Dainis Kļava, Mārcis Ābele, Uldis Cekulis, Valdis Celmiņš, Ansis Landorfs, Ingus Iļjučonoks
Music
TESA MAN
Runtime
Language
no dialogue
Director
Uģis Olte

Uģis Olte

Stuck in Stikine (2007, doc), Double Aliens (2015, doc), Liberation Day (2016, doc, co-dir), Upurga (2021)

Screenings

5th Lux Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening110502 / TESA MAN
Q&A guestsLīva Vernere (Producer), Andris Eglītis (Cast, Production design)
Q&A duration
Screening duration
Trailer
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