I Am Thinking About a Cat

The film will be a cinematic poem written with the light that shone 40 to 50 years earlier. It will be an act of remembering other people's memories, based on photographic negatives from the years 1968 to 1978, found in a rubbish bin and most likely never printed.

Looking at the drafts of the unknown photographer we have named Anton, the son of Emma's aunt, and at his photographic outtakes (so-called mistakes: blurriness, accidental elements in the frame, overexposure, technical double exposures, etc.), we will imagine what he felt and thought, and what those he photographed felt and thought. Or, more precisely, how we would live if these were our photographs.

Starring Andrejs Strokins, Ralfs Neifalts, Mikass Bučmis, Laila Gintere

Directed and written by Laila Pakalniņa

Studio Company Hargla

Financial support: National Film Centre