Time forgotten in the notebooks - Jūratė Jarulytė's Northern Lithuania 2016-04-04
In 2015 artist Jūratė Jarulytė was developing a very personal, an almost autobiographical project Lithuanian North. The personal feeling of the project disintegrated in several layers - it is a geographical, emotional and an artistic experience.
Lithuanian light images. The antidote to loneliness 2016-04-01
Ignas Stanys and Vaiva Lanskoronskytė's photography exhibition Lithuanian light images was opened in Vilnius, at the Journalists' House (Jogailos str. 11) on the 1st of April. These are the artistic portrait series of the prominent Lithuanian personalities of culture. Most of the portrait series are accompanied by short photo stories - sound slides, developed from the portrait photographs and conversation fragments.
A look at the Lithuanian photography from 1940's to 1980's 2016-03-22
Kaunas Photography Gallery is currently hosting Šiauliai Photography Museum’s artistic photography collection exhibition Collection. The exhibition features various country's artists representing the development of Lithuanian photography starting with 1940's, until the 1980's. The exhibited photographs examine different periods - the time of Stalinism, "thaw" and Revival. The works point at how the system and time was affecting the aesthetics of the photograph, determined the different viewpoints towards a man, his environment and how it distorted the meaning of photography.
Found ideas 2016-03-15
Gytis Skudžinskas' exhibition Several truthsofphotography, which is taking place in Kaunas at the Post gallery, from March 3 till 15, can easily be considered as yet another "exhibition of photography." Author does not create new images, but aims at looking critically at the role of the image in today's culture overfilled with images.
Images from the ashes. Film - Son of Saul 2016-03-11
Currently, Lithuanian cinemas are screening Hungarian director László Nemes' (1977) feature film Son of Saul (2015, distributor: Scanorama). This film stands out among many other films about the Holocaust. The director is seeking to convey this tragic event of humanity as a personal experience that is happening in the present. He combines different forms of action and avant-garde films; creates and retains suggestive moral allegories, up to the last frame.
Reality monitoring and visual poetry in Albinas Kuliešius' works 2016-03-03
When I look at the documentary photography, in which I recognize Lithuania that I fully understand and which is stuck in my imagination; similarly seen landscapes and people's daily activities, I get the impression that all of this is that universally cognizable, finite accumulation of Lithuanian experiences. Probably I will not be wrong saying that I notice all that in the photographs of Ukmergė-based A. Kuliešius.
Landscapes of longing 2016-02-17
You belong to me is not an exhibition on Mars or sentimental human feelings. The obvious content of photographs and their provoking inexpressiveness, just like the metaphors involved in the text is only a way to form conceptual references that lead beyond the functional perception determined by the purpose of the photographs and the everyday approach to the world around us.
Count S. K. Kosakovskis' legacy: modern look from the past 2016-02-12
Everyday flowers: women's and children's portraits from Count Kazimieras Kosakovskis' photography collection is the name of the exhibition at the National M. K Čiurlionis Art Museum, open until the 6th of March. Upon its opening earlier this year, exhibition could not accommodate all the visitors in a small hall, many of them waited in line, in the corridor, for their turn to get a closer look at the Count's photo albums, registration book, some enlarged photographs and to read the detailed descriptions.
French cinema, mon amour 2016-02-11
The festival of French cinema Winter Screens usually takes place when the winter with its full-blown flu and other viruses has already been tormenting enough and you especially feel like looking not out the window but at the screen, in which you are drawn in by another reality for an hour or two, providing strong emotions, feelings and thoughts. French cinema is amazing, it stands out in the context of all film festivals; it is difficult to define it - the best is to feel it.
Self-grief - a fear of confronting another "I" 2015-12-01
An elderly couple, Jeff (Tom Courtenay) and Kate (Charlotte Rampling) are waiting for an extraordinary event. At the end of the week they will have a big celebration - the 45th anniversary of their marriage. The banquet hall is booked, a list of songs is being put together as well as a snack menu. In Andrew Haigh's film 45 years (2015), which was shown in this year’s Scanorama even time is recorded according to the number of days left until the big event... Only suddenly, everything is perturbed when Jeff receives a letter stating that a body of his lover, who had disappeared 50 years ago was found.
