Public Film Studio “Mazā Ģilde”

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Amateur film studio “Ģilde”, which began its activity in 1958 as “Culture House Public Film Studio of the Trade Union Council of the Republic of Latvia, one of the first leaders,. cinema amateurism veteran Osvalds Dinvietis Osvalds Dinvietis, a graphic artist by profession, acted in the club already since its founding in September 1958. The then artistic director of the LRAP culture house Modris Šubiņš, knowing about Dinvietis’ passion for photography, offered to come to the newly created cinema amateur club, the activity of which initially took place in a lecture hall format, with professional cinematographers sharing experience and trade secrets. After half a year it was necessary to start proving practical readiness for making films, and then from the many cinema lovers crystallised those to whom this love was in an active form – Elmārs Riekstiņš, Edgars Agriņš, Juris Zemitāns, Jānis Podskočijs, Visvaldis Vanags, Šarls Taics and Osvalds Dinvietis. The management of the club was handed into Dinvietis’ hands – he was responsible for the group until the seventies, when this function was gradually taken over by his wife Regīna Dinviete, and then in the nineties – Romualds Pipars. On average in the club there always worked – who actively, who less actively – around twenty filmmakers, and as back then, so today this for a large part is a place where to try out their relationship with cinema – those who fall in love for real quite often go into professional cinema, those to whom cinema turns out to be too demanding look for other means of self-expression. In the winter of 1961/62, Šarls Taics got the idea to shoot a film that would be made with the help of stop-frame in cutout technique. For filming was used one of the 16mm newsreel cameras, with which filming frame by frame was possible. Thus was born the first experimental films in Ģilde studio. Although in reality any amateur film was experimental, Nobody knew how to do anything in the cinema field, Self-education and experiment. Although both applied graphic artists knew color relationships and composition laws, experience in animating characters was possessed neither by Taics nor Dinvietis, and also not by Elmārs Riekstiņš and Jānis Podskočijs, who participated in the making of the film. The film “216. Istabas noslēpums” is a cutout technique made gangster film – “bojevik” parody, which tells about a bandit who goes to rob a bank, but having gotten into the cash desk room marked with number 216, collides against an unexpected obstacle. Dinvietis participated also in the shooting of such cutout films as “Perpendikuls” and “Horoskops”. Another particularly bright facet of the creative activity of Ģilde cinema amateur studio was “PHOTO-FILMS”, These were also experimental genre films. Photographs were filmed. Dynamically filmed and successfully connected with music and sounds. “Aptumsums”, ‘’Runājiet, kalni!’’, ‘’Siseņu lietus’’, and many others. At that time in the internal communications of Channel 1 of USSR Central Television someone was shouting: ‘’Look! Look! Here is how out of nothing one can make a film!’’ On air they were showing the film ”Aptumsums”. The annual amateur film showcases in the sixties, seventies were a significant event in cinema life, because the popularity of cinema amateurism was extremely large. At the moment of the highest wave, in the time from 1975 to 1985 in the republic four hundred films were created per year. In Riga were shown and competed for awards only a couple dozen of the best;. In the 1962 showcase among them noticeable was the animated short film “216. istabas noslēpums”, which was noticed also by professional film makers in the USSR. As a result, the small group of cinema amateurs during two weeks, spending nights in the premises of Šmerlis, reshot the cutout film once more, using the previously made cutouts. When the people of the film studio saw the seriousness with which the zealots of Amatu Street were creating their works, a proposal sounded to come make animation films in Šmerlis. They were invited to write applications for films that could be shot at the film studio; sketches for three stories were submitted. “For some time they answered us nothing, then answered that these applications were not for multiplication films – because multiplication films must be made for children, not about such problems as we made them,” Dinvietis remembers. Well, and after that Burov started making puppet films in the film studio, for children. In the year 65 Osvalds Dinvietis got the idea to create a drawn film. However, even a carefully pragmatized first drawn film created in Latvia required no small effort. “Problēma” was filmed and with success shown in the 1966 republic amateur showcase. In the autumn from Moscow an invitation was received to the international cinema amateur organization UNICA congress and film showcase in the Czechoslovakian resort Marianske Lazne; the 27 people large USSR delegation was selected to be present at a significant moment – the admission of the USSR into the international organization. This meant also the opportunity to see people from the other side of the curtain and in shootings observe life outside the Soviet Union. However, the most surprising observation was the discovery that in the showcase was being shown the film “Problēma”, about which previously the makers of the film had not been informed. The film was awarded with a bronze medal, which onto the stage to receive stepped representatives of Moscow. “Problēma” to this day is the studio’s only drawn animation film. Also other colleagues of the studio have tried a hand in animating – Vaitkuss shot “Atriebība”, Romualds Pipars created a play of colors, lines and images “Mana ragainā mīlestība” from children’s drawings. Today the authors of these drawings are professional artists, photographers and cinematographers. Long before the beginning of the computer era in Ģilde studio was being born the experimental film “Serpentīns”, which strongly resembled today’s computer graphics, back then it was called cinema solarization Back then it was an unreachable dream, but in the studio they accomplished it. Especially must be mentioned the feature films created in Ģilde studio. Cinema amateurs had tackled the most difficult feature film genre – comedy. The most colorful example of these films is “Mārtiņš”. It is hard to find a cinema amateur film festival of that time in which this film would not have been awarded. In 2014 using the frames shot by our studio’s cinema amateurs and attracting materials of many other cinema amateurs was created the full-length documentary film “Monētas dubultportrets“. This film told about people’s life over 70 years in Latvia. From April 26 to June 8, 2014 in the film series “Artists, Amateurs, Alternative Spaces: Experimental Cinema in Eastern Europe, 1960 – 1990” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington (National Gallery of Art) were shown three outstanding works of Latvian documentary cinema, among which “Monētas dubultportrets”. With the consent of the film’s authors, this film was included in the gallery’s funds.