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- 2014
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 28 m
- 2014
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 28 m
Summary Fighting for her sanity, Signe Baumane uses wit and imagination to confront the secrets of her family's madness.
Directed By: Signe Baumane
Written By: Signe Baumane
- 2014
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 28 m
- 2014
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 28 m
Rocks in My Pockets
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Summary Fighting for her sanity, Signe Baumane uses wit and imagination to confront the secrets of her family's madness.
Directed By: Signe Baumane
Written By: Signe Baumane
Where to Watch
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Boasting a narrative of extraordinary complexity and density, stuffed with irony, humor and tales-within-tales, the imaginative animated memoir Rocks in My Pockets merges a mini-history of 20th-century Latvia with that of helmer Signe Baumane and her forebears.
Signe Baumane opens her sardonically hilarious, sneakily moving, autobiographical animated feature, Rocks in My Pocket, with what looks like a darker version of one of those chipper psycho-pharmaceutical ads.
The director clearly takes depression and suicidal urges and the possibility they may be hereditary very seriously but that doesn’t mean that the film isn’t often very witty.
There are slow bits, as Baumane delves into stories that are less interesting than others. But overall, her family history is rife with complex characters, and she brings them all to life in a loving, if scrutinizing, way.
This inventive animated feature about depression and familial roots suggests NPR's "The Moth" storytelling series by way of Persepolis, mixing mesmerizing memoir monologue with whimsical animation.
With an insightfulness born from firsthand experience, Rocks in My Pockets posits depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia as conditions that, though potentially lethal, remain manageable, if only through persistent battle.
Depression is such a personal, intangible, mystifying phenomenon. Signe Baumane tries to make sense of it in unexpected fashion — through colorful animation and dark humor — with Rocks in My Pockets.
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Production Company
Rocks In My Pockets,
Studio Locomotive
Release Date Sep 3, 2014
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline A crazy quest for sanity.
Awards
Latvian National Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Chlotrudis Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
