“Signe Baumane’s ROCKS IN MY POCKETS is BOLD, BRAVE and BEAUTIFUL!” |
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In the new animated film Rocks in My Pockets, Latvian-born artist and filmmaker Signe Baumane tells five fantastical tales based on the courageous women in her family and their battles with madness. With boundless imagination and a twisted sense of humor, she has created daring stories of art, romance, marriage, nature, business, and Eastern European upheaval—all in the fight for her own sanity. Rocks in My Pockets was Latvia's official entry for the 2015 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Our version of the film is the original version in English.
What People are Saying About “In the fascinating animated feature ROCKS IN MY POCKETS, artist Signe Baumane searches for deeply personal truths about the women in her family who lived in Soviet-controlled Latvia. She and the audience discovers a compelling history lesson in true stories of bravery, depression, and suicide, which Baumane presents in brightly-colored, surreal animation imagery filled with dark humor and vivid emotions. The film is a fine example of the power and range the medium of animation is capable of.” “CRITIC'S PICK! A sharp, surprising and funny animated feature, plumbing the depths of depression via her family history. Guided by Ms. Baumane’s almost musically accented voice-over, this hand-drawn debut feature is based upon the mental struggles of her Latvian grandmother and other relatives. It’s told with remorseless psychological intelligence, wicked irony and an acerbic sense of humor.” “Sardonically hilarious, sneakily moving... The animation comes from a scary, diabolically funny place. Imagine Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, but much darker.” “Boasting a narrative of extraordinary complexity and density, stuffed with irony, humor and tales-within-tales... imaginative... fascinating and very personal... this modern milestone in animated storytelling... Unfolding at an almost breathless pace, the film boasts aces tech contributions across the board.” “Latvian-born artist and filmmaker Signe Baumane examines her family members' history with mental illness (as well as her own struggles) with humor, delicacy and eye-catching animation techniques.” “Animated in a striking combination of real paper-mache sets and props and hand-drawn 2D figures, the film explores with wit, surreal invention and insight something left far too often undiscussed.” “The Latvian artist, who wrote and directed the movie (her first), has a fresh way of describing scenes and feelings, and an even more intriguing way of animating them... her family history is rife with complex characters, and she brings them all to life in a loving, if scrutinizing, way. ” “A visually stunning masterpiece... an important film... a beautiful conversation starter.”
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