Incident with a Typesetter 1975
The first part of "Provincial Anecdotes".
The first part of "Provincial Anecdotes".
Clay animation film by John Biliūno tale "Light of Happiness." That's an allegoric tale about an insurmountable mountain, at the top of which glow the light of happiness - source of freedom, love and hope.
A young couple is coming back after their honeymoon. On the way home they find themselves in many unexpected situations that are possible to get out of only if you love each other a lot. It is a short film about love. Have you ever seen such one? Sure exactly one like this?
A story about a bunny who decided to grow his own cabbage. And for that it was necessary to get seeds from St. Peter who lives in heaven...
When Vytautas Kalinauskas, who has already created his famous illustrations for Goethe's Faust and Dante's Divine Comedy, was asked what he considered himself to be - a graphic artist, a set designer or a film artist - he answered simply: an artist. He was artistic, elegant, intellectual. According to the art critic Algimantas Patašius, he was "an aristocrat without a coat of arms" who became a sworn aesthetic dissident.
A secretive man’s inner thoughts confronts against the reality.
“Man-Horse” is a film about an old farmer, Jonas, and his horse. It is an intimate story about the existential relationship between human and animal; it is about solitude and the daily effort to survive. The film's director and Jonas Šalomskas are neighbours in the village of Užuguostis. They have known each other for two decades.
Antanas Sutkus. An in-depth look into the soul of a man who could capture attention and find a way to the hearts of people he photographed. Little did they know of the difficult experiences he kept in his heart.
Creator's inner self starts to evolve.
Based on Ion Druță's play of the same name.
Soviet Lithuania, 1975. Fishermen kiss their wives goodbye. They are going off to sea to catch fish on the faraway Atlantic coasts of Africa. The boat is going to be their home for the next five months.
It has been over one hundred years since M. K. Čiurlionis left his lasting imprint on Lithuanian culture. He was a composer, painter, genius, and madman who created an entirely new space, new context, and new universe.
In the course of a single day, young Egle is confronted with her mother's suicide and is consumed by the guilt of having caused her death, all because of not being able to write one letter in the alphabet.
Lonely Lithuanian teenager Rokas, whose mother works abroad, is trying to rise above his depressing post-socialist housing block by singing in a choir. His only refuge – his voice – quickly turns into a threat, as local gangs hunt him for being branded a snitch.
A birdwatcher meets a mysterious stranger in a remote birdwatching tower. As the stranger's presence becomes more disturbing, the birdwatcher gets pulled into an unsettling experience.
Like everything rotates around: vodkas searching, vituperation, floating barge, wind gusts. It seems the people, and the nature feel approaching farewell, and intermittent band, repetitive shots and phrases, accentuated the importance of the passing moment.
A story about the everyday life of five lonely friends filmed in an ironically grim documentary manner. Each of them has their own separate world of loneliness, but when they are together, they complement the company with their individual quirks. Having the same friends, they don't feel alone.
Two men, an aged farmer and his deaf-mute son, live in a remote area, isolated from civilization. Though sharing the same roof, problems, and sorrows they remain very distant from one another. Their attempts at conversation turn to misunderstanding if not conflict. Father thinks his son is abnormal and childish. Son sees his father as insensitive and crude. Can the two men find their way into understanding one another?
Animated short.