Ivars Seleckis

Born: 1934-09-22

Latvian documentary filmmaker Ivars Seleckis (1934) is one of the founders of the legendary Riga school of poetic documentary film. Seleckis started his career in film in 1958 as assistant cameraman at the Riga Film Studio. In 1966, he graduated from the Moscow Film Institute as a professional cinematographer and made his debut as a documentary director in 1968. A large part of Ivars Seleckis’ filmography belongs to the canon of Latvian film history, including his Crossroad Street (1988), winner of three of the world’s most prestigious documentary awards. Now in his eighties, Seleckis is still busy making new films ‒ despite having received the Lifetime Contribution Award of Lielais Kristaps National Film Festival as he was marking his 80th birthday.

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Bridges of Time

as Self
Released: 2018-07-01

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a...

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Message to Man

as Himself
Released: 1989-06-01

In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad....

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Comeback

as Himself
Released: 2006-09-01

Uldis Brauns' conversation with Ivars Seleckis about films and time.

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