The Quiet Big Bang

Emerging director Kristiāns Iesalnieks, in collaboration with playwright Ivo Briedis and inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s legendary film—the grotesque tragicomedy *Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* (1964)—has created his own 21st-century take on fear. It is the emerging artist’s painfully personal response and restless reflection on a situation in which the world has once again gone mad and cold. In the young director’s view, “the present age has become even more uncertain, today’s adversary even more abstract, and incompetence even more visible.”