The Old Jewish Cemetery

The Netherlands, Latvia2014documentary20'

Employing the unhurried rhythm of editing and austere aesthetics of images, Loznitsa portrays a city park in Riga. His camera is contemplating what is missing from the frames as the park is a remnant of a former cemetery, the only trace of which is a fragment of its fence thrust into the root of a tree. Black and white photographs, long shots, fragmentary frames with abandoned alleyways – all this makes the unreal picture of Riga nowadays. It is accompanied by silence, which is interrupted only for a little while with a piece of Tchaikovsky's “Eugene Onegin” audible from a window in one of the buildings.