Lithuanian Short Film Premieres

she’s waiting for the sunset 

My dad asks a 6-year-old me to say something for the future generation as one day I’ll be as old as my great grandma – and time begins to irreversibly move forward.

Martyna Ratnik

Martyna Ratnik is a Vilnius-based cultural worker. Her practice, spanning writing, filmmaking and curation, focuses on landscapes and their (de)colonization, the aesthetics of boredom and memory politics. Martyna’s work explores the tensions arising between grand narratives and the everyday and is interconnected by the search for various ways history – from personal to planetary – can be embodied and transgressed. Since 2022 she has been a member of the London Short Film Festival’s Selection Committee.

Whose Memory?

“Whose Memory?” is an experimental short film that follows two protagonists as they confront their past memories. The film explores the connection between their histories through seemingly unrelated subjects such as swans, homo-sovieticus, migration, and ballet.

Marija Nemčenko Aržanych

Marija Nemčenko Aržanych is an artist working between Lithuania and Scotland, and co-founder of BRUT Collective. She explores Eastern European identity, peripheral practices, and their embodiment. Her multilayered practice also aims to activate the interlinks between migration, nature, and nation-state, while critically attending to the construct of a ‘periphery’.Marija received her BA in Sculpture from University of the Arts London and her MA in Visual Arts from Glasgow School of Art.

Telieka tik pėdsakas

Let Them Vanish with a Trace 

When creating the film “Only a Trace Remains,” a connection was established between the film and soil fungi, without the authors expecting to receive any specific results in return. However, the microorganisms were generous. Although part of the film is no longer on the reel, its traces continue to circulate in the ecological system. How can this complex connection be described?

Miklos Tamas Ambrozy, Gailė Griciūtė

Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy is a Vilnius-based researcher, writer, and artist working with film. He is an active member of the Why Cut When You Can Fade artistic research group, founder of the platform Landing, and a member of the artist-run film lab SPONGĖ. His research topics include degrowth, pollution, film poetics, and the transfer of artistic methods to the broader public.

Gailė Griciūtė is a composer, performer, and sound artist. In her practice she is exploring the fluidity of sound, its ability to always transform, adapt, change, to be in relation with the environment. The artist implements her ideas in various forms: from scores with the smallest details marked out to performances or improvisations, which are created and heard only in the present moment.