September 12, Thursday
9:00 PM.
Film night with Mindaugas Meškauskas
19th Century Photographer's Legacy. Dir. M.Meškauskas, documentary f., 2022, Lith., Eng. subt., 70 min. N-7 (Nida Community Centre, Taikos St. 17)
This is a story about the most significant 19th-century Vilnius photographer Józef Czechowicz and historical photographic processes. Filled with a rich archive of photographs, interviews, reconstructed computer-graphic images and acted-out scenes, the narrative goes back to the roots of photography, introducing the 19th century photographic studio and its photographic processes.
September 13, Friday
9:00 PM.
Film night
Back from New York. Dir. R. Rakauskaitė, documentary, 2021, Eng. sub. 62 min. N-13 (Nida Community Centre, Taikos St. 17)
Two artists whose work was constrained during the Soviet era flee to New York. There, they meet their guru Jonas Mekas, creator of avant-garde filmmaking. He leads the way to bohemian circles and helps them discover creative freedom. Twenty years later, the heroes of the film return to their homeland in Eastern Europe. The clamour of the metropolis is replaced by the soothing sounds of nature, a slow rhythm and the depth of life. The spirit of the Master and New York, however, continues to haunt the artists.
