A musician on his way to meet a fellow fiddler, encounters two girls and is taken aback by their talks about afterlife. The musicians walk towards a village observing events, unable to discern phantasy from reality. Later, both men attend a funeral, where archaic rituals intertwine with the...
The astronaut Chris Kelvin receives a visit from a woman who is a double of his dead wife. This story, told in Stanislaw Lem’s eponymous novel, was once adapted into the film Solaris by the legendary Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky. According to Deimantas Narkevičius, Tarkovsky was not as...
The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism has been symbolically documented by many tv reportages of removals of monumental public sculptures, but the citizens of Vilnius in Lithuania did the unexpected!
Into the Unknown is based on found footage of former DDR-documentary films, which spotlight contexts of the daily life of East Berliners. The footage generates a clash between what is seen and heard, mimicking the chasm between propaganda and reality—and the deceiving power of images.
The Role of a Lifetime raises questions about the ethical and social responsibilities of the artist and about the relationship between cinematic representation and historical record. Narkevicius's film emphasises the value of doubt and the impossibility of objectivity, while providing an intimate...
With the help of film documents, Deimantas Narkevičius reconstructs the creation and inauguration of the Karl Marx Monument, which was designed by the sculptor Lev Kerbel and erected in 1971 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz). All photographs used were originally produced in the GDR for...
"The film Energy in Lithuania is a documentary study of an industrial installation (an electric power plant), which includes conversations with people who have worked there. Although the power plant is functioning, it has now become like a museum of industrial thought. Still, the livelihood of...
Film reel and its material qualities are inseparable from an image it carries. Polarity between the physical marks on celluloid and the photographic image that it supports was an inspiration to create a stereoscopic sculptural illusion, titled Stains and Scratches.
A “reenactment” of something that has never happened but was planned and prepared to the smallest detail: the launch of a nuclear rocket from the Soviet Union.
