On September 5 at 6:00 p.m., the Latvian Film Museum invites you to a lecture titled \u201cCinema Days \u201986 \u2013 40th Anniversary!<\/span><\/strong>\u201d,<\/span> Event Schedule: Educational lecture on Cinema Days \u201986<\/strong> at the Latvian Film Museum: Photo: Valdis Lavrinovi\u010ds. The 1st International \u201cArsen\u0101ls\u201d Festival, 1988. Installation of festival advertisements near the House of Knowledge.<\/p>\n Next year, we will celebrate the 80th birthday of director Augusts Sukuts. With the help of the project \u201cAugust All Year Round,\u201d It has been 40 years since \u201cCinema Days \u201986\u201d\u2014a landmark event in the history of Latvian cinema. The Video Department, established in 1986 within the Latvian Cinematography Committee, was tasked with introducing new technologies and forms into the Latvian film system, as well as promoting the art of cinema. The most joyful event organized by the department and its chief creative force, director Augusts Sukuts, was \u201cCinema Days \u201986\u201d in August 1986. The previously celebrated Soviet Cinema Days were replaced by celebrations marking the birth of cinema. The event marked 90 years since the first films from the cinematograph invented by the French Lumi\u00e8re brothers were screened in Riga in 1896.<\/p>\n \u201cCinema Days \u201986\u201d presented cinema as an endless spectacle and a field of experiences. There were no boundaries between art forms during \u201cCinema Days\u201d\u2014filmmakers, theater actors and directors, visual artists, photographers, musicians, and writers all participated in organizing and celebrating the event. \u201cThe \u2018Cinema Days\u2019 were our conviction and our audacity,\u201d said Augusts Sukuts.<\/p>\n The culmination of the festival was the week\u2019s finale in Ark\u0101dija Park. In every corner of Ark\u0101dija Park, as well as near and on Mara Pond, one could see art installations and performances born of boundless imagination, some of which carried a strong subtext of social criticism. Everything that followed\u2014the establishment of the Riga Video Center, the Riga (now Latvian) Film Museum, and the \u201cArsen\u0101ls\u201d International Film Festival\u2014was largely the result of the sense of cinematic inadequacy created by \u201cFilm Days \u201986\u201d!<\/p>\n Supported by:<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" *EVENTS WILL BE HELD IN LATVIAN WITHOUT ENGLISH TRANSLATION! On September 5 at 6:00 p.m., the Latvian Film Museum invites you to a lecture titled \u201cCinema Days \u201986 \u2013 40th Anniversary!\u201d, and on September 4 and 5, you can visit the installation near the National Film School, where we will be showing video and photo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11],"tags":[18,17,22],"class_list":["post-7246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notikumi","category-arhivs","tag-slideen","tag-slidelv","tag-slideuk"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nand on September 4 and 5, you can visit the installation near the National Film School<\/strong>, where we will be showing<\/span>
\nvideo and photo materials about Cinema Days \u201986. We look forward to seeing you in the Miera Street neighborhood, at 58a Miera Street!<\/span><\/p>\n
\nInstallation near the National Film School<\/strong> featuring video and photo materials about Cinema Days \u201986:
\nSeptember 4, 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
\nSeptember 5, 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.<\/p>\n
\nSeptember 5, 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nwe will hold various events throughout the year dedicated to the legacy of the talented and imaginative Augusts
\nSukuts. The \u201cCinema Days \u201986\u201d anniversary event serves as the kickoff for this project.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.kinomuzejs.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/47_bez_vienkarsa_pilnkrasu_rgb_v_en-300x300.png\")
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