filled up, torn open (2022) stands at the intersection of the familiar and the taboo. The familiar is highlighted through repeated references to pop culture, contemporaneity in both its physical and online forms, and religious iconography. The taboo appears in the way these disparate yet corresponding elements converge - through the sensual, intimate, and sometimes violent bodily proximity of the characters that occupy the mise en scène. Nameless and discontinuous, they glide through the narrative with an obscureness that mirrors the fragmentary nature of the film itself. What unites them is the force of desire, the search for limit experiences that would surpass, even if for a brief moment, the constraints of their physical bodies. In the resulting fever dream-like narrative, the status quo of the rational world breaks apart and, in its stead, new radical imaginaries emerge.

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Director/Editor/Writer: Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas; Performers: Gloria Viktoria Regotz, Amanda Lydert, Rieko Whitfield, João Felgueira, Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas; Composer: Jared Bennett; Cinematography: Simona Pranulytė; 3D & GAN animations: Jade Tang, Finn Rabbitt Dove, Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas; Colour Grade: Ona Julija Lukas Steponaitytė; Translator: Alexandra Bondarev; Featuring poetry by Salomėja Neris