filled up, torn open
2022/2024, digital video with animations and sound, duration 8 min, 56 sec
Work supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
Screened at Audra, Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas; Ghent International Short Film Festival.
filled up, torn open (2022/2024) 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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2022/2024, digital video with animations and sound, duration 8 min, 56 sec
Work supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
Screened at Audra, Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas; Ghent International Short Film Festival.
filled up, torn open (2022/2024) 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.
