Our Fire Films

A spoon-fed madam comes head to head with the ugly truth that not only nobody loves her, but that she herself doesn’t love her. A psychedelic tale of glamour, suspense and the inner reaches of human psyche.

Shot in 2 evenings and edited in 24h. Created for the DVinfo.net 2nd annual Charity Challange with the contest theme – gifts.

Type: short film (colour:  b&w, kodachrome)
Status: released 10th of January 2010
@ Vimeo
@ YouTube
@ ExposureRoom
@ Archive.org (download)

Commentary:

The film deals with various personae and energy centres that occupy the human mind and shows them in relationship with each other.
The woman in black is the energy centre of the human psyche that corresponds with the wish of self betterment and annihilation of unsatisfactory personality traits.  But, alas, as Nietzsche said: “Be careful in casting out your devil ‘lest you cast out the best thing about you”, and so we have to continue this jihad or be left with an undeveloped or a degraded personality.

Length: 5 minutes
Genre: psychedelic
Soundtrack: Juanitos, Laura Krastiņa
Script: Google doc (in Latvian)
Licence: Creative Commons BY-SA (Approved for Free Cultural Works)
Team: Andris Krastiņš, Ieva Birnbauma, Margarita Kuhaļska, Laura Krastiņa, Duke*, Mārtiņš Links, Zane Pērkone.

After a Latvian folk tale, a short about a bride, who so loves her bridegroom, that she is willing to follow him even in death and beyond.

Type: short film (colour (mostly))
Status: released
@ YouTube (Latvian // with English subtitles);
@ Vimeo (with English subtitles)
Date of release: 31st of October 2009
Length: 5 minutes
Genre: horror
Soundtrack: original soundtrack by Vaarna (download)
Licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Team: Andris Krastiņš, Mārtiņš Links, Zane Ozola, Duke, Jānis Lasmanis, Jānis Krūmiņš, Edgars Lilje. Thanks to: Jānis Traviņš and Jūlija Stefanoviča.

Dead Bridegroom Takes Away the Bride (short film; eng-subs) from Andris Krastiņš on Vimeo.

A little short film about the life and death of a piece of firewood.
I shot this film, while helping my friend Mārtiņš put firewood for the winter in his barn.
The film is shot entirely from the point of view of a piece of a firewood.
Everything, including sound, recorded with Canon HV-20.
See it on Vimeo or Youtube

The life? and death? of a firewood from Andris Krastiņš on Vimeo.

Further Than Distance is a short film shot for thedvchallenge.com 14th contest, theme – travel.

Full size poster here

Type: short film (colour)
Status: released
@ exposureroom.com (download and view);
@ vimeo.com (download and view)
Date of release: 15th of November 2008
Length: 3:44 minutes
Genre: sci-fi/surreal
Soundtrack: Jaunt; Ehma; Julien Boulier
Licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Team: Andris Krastiņš, Mārtiņš Links, Jūlija Stefanoviča
Film made for thedvchallenge.com 14th contest, theme – travel.
You can read the making-of description and other film maker feedback at DVInfo.

Further Than Distance (short film) from Andris Krastiņš on Vimeo.

Dream Lover is about a girl, who dreams. She dreams herself and her lover, and the game is between herself and herself. She lives and is born from her experiences in the dream realm. Alas, “it is never just a dream”.

Full size poster here
Type: short film (b&w)
Status: released
@ exposureroom.com (download and view);
@ vimeo.com (download and view)
Date of release: 1st of October 2008
Length: 13,5 minutes
Genre: fantasy / horror
Soundtrack: Morpheus album “Rebis” (more info)
Licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Team: Andris Krastiņš, Spirit, Andris V., Mārtiņš Links, Jūlija Stefanoviča
p.s. Dream Lover wasn’t actually intended as horror, but during filming we noticed that it is a bit scary, and then it became more scary.

Dream lover (short film) from Andris Krastiņš on Vimeo.