The Chronicler

Also available as part of the short film program Nordic Shorts 2: Where to put the old? ⸺ He is the untiring chronicler of life in Latvia. For decades, the endearingly odd Marģers Martinsons has recorded both the banal and the original on video. The material is stored in boxes, which are stacked to the ceiling. Marģers’ eyesight, however, is fading, and the future fate of his estate is becoming an urgent question. The sheer mass of memories threatens the remembered with oblivion.