Revisiting Spaces and Histories. Lithuanian Artist Film Programme
The selection of films by prominent Lithuanian artists of different generations presents a range of artistic languages that are all addressing the subjects of history and place, the specific architectural, documentary, social and mental spaces for narratives.
Earlier films from the late 1990s and early 2000s witness the beginnings of the video as an accessible medium in the country 鈥� the first efforts of the artists to play around with their own video cameras, thus poetically documenting the casual and the everyday, the social situations of the time. The latter are often situated in the modernist settings while other artists are consciously revisiting modernist histories 鈥� of architecture as a derelict heritage or a historical device of social democracy; of art and film as a political tool or a source of psychodelic inspiration; and of a modernist myth of the artist as social renegade. Touching upon those diverse angles, all the films address the themes and poetics which originated in the second half of the 20th century and are somehow witnessing a comeback as a lense to deal with a complex present.
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The selection of films by prominent Lithuanian artists of different generations presents a range of artistic languages that are all addressing the subjects of history and place, the specific architectural, documentary, social and mental spaces for narratives.
Earlier films from the late 1990s and early 2000s witness the beginnings of the video as an accessible medium in the country 鈥� the first efforts of the artists to play around with their own video cameras, thus poetically documenting the casual and the everyday, the social situations of the time. The latter are often situated in the modernist settings while other artists are consciously revisiting modernist histories 鈥� of architecture as a derelict heritage or a historical device of social democracy; of art and film as a political tool or a source of psychodelic inspiration; and of a modernist myth of the artist as social renegade. Touching upon those diverse angles, all the films address the themes and poetics which originated in the second half of the 20th century and are somehow witnessing a comeback as a lense to deal with a complex present.
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