this autumn
Shooting of Troubled Minds in Norway
It was fun and a bit hardcore as well. We were welcomed by Film Camp and Rein Film to experience beauty and harshness of the North. In the landscape throughout Northern Scandinavia, one can find sieidis, places that have unusual land forms different from the surrounding countryside, and that can be considered to have spiritual significance. Each family or clan has its local spirits, to whom they make offerings for protection and good fortune. The Storjunkare are described sometimes as stones, having some likeness to a man or an animal, that were set up on a mountain top, or in a cave, or near rivers and lakes. Honor was done to them by spreading fresh twigs under them in winter, and in summer leaves or grass. The Storjunkare had power over all animals, fish, and birds, and gave luck to those that hunted or fished for them. Reindeer were offered up to them, and every clan and family had its own hill of sacrifice.
MAKING OF BALTIC TRIBES
Behind the scenes of 21st century Pagans
Baltic mythology is the body of mythology of the Baltic people stemming from Baltic paganism and continuing after Christianization and into Baltic folklore. Baltic mythology ultimately stems from Proto-Indo-European mythology. The Baltic region was one of the last regions of Europe to be Christianized, a process that occurred from the 15th century and into at least a century after. While no native texts survive detailing the mythology of the Baltic peoples during the pagan period, knowledge of the mythology may be gained from Russian and German chronicles, later folklore, by way of etymology, and comparative mythology.
PHOTOGRAPHY: RIHARDS RUDZITIS
PHOTOGRAPHY: ILZE CELMILLERE
Location
Tritone Studio
Our accommodations are in the center of city of Riga, Latvia. Equipped with editing room, post production and animation studio and a small greenscreen setup. Feel free to visit us when visiting Baltic lands.
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
