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Hello, Horse. That Awful Road

Approached by locals, Laila Pakalniņa was urged to film the surroundings of what they call "that horrible road." This is a seemingly ordinary Latvian country road, but one that contains in its landscape much of the national sentiment: something that changes but remains the same.

Under this premise, Pakalniņa claims to film also the opposite: that which always remains as it is yet keeps changing anyway. Silent and powerfully evocative, these postcards speak to us of the soul of a country in a trance.