“Compressed time” will fill Nida with ecopoetics and cinematic rituals Culture

Nida, which will become the second stop of the festival for the first time, will invite the audience to learn about ecopoetics, offer to join the work of artists or discover unique cinematic rituals. The three-day program includes exceptional films from all over the world that uniquely respond to the theme of this year’s festival – ritual.

“The purpose of the ritual is to tame time. The same can be said about experimental cinema,” say the festival organizers. How to tame experimental cinema will Nida offer?

. Photo of the authors of the film/Pablo Marin’s stop shot of the film “Resistfilm”.

On the first night, Nida will be flooded by “Vývybinga Materia”

July 30 (Tuesday) 9 p.m. In the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nida, there is a program of films by Pablo Marino, an artist from Argentina, in which the themes of travel and ritual are interwoven into a poetic narrative. The audience will have the opportunity to see seven of Mr. Marin’s films nuancedly exploring geographical urgency, emotional fragility or the cartography of memories.
The artist’s films reveal a unique artistic vision that deeply engages the broader movements of avant-garde cinema. The artist Pablo Marin himself will participate in the evening of the “Living Matter” program.
Creative processes as a ritual experience.

July 31 (Wednesday) program at 9 p.m. a ritual called home – ecopoetics – will begin. The program curated by film artist Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy invites you to delve into the concept of ecology. The carefully selected collection of films explores how our environment shapes us as much as we shape it. Expanding our senses and involving works will allow us to experience ecopoetics as a ritual called home.

In the evening at 10 p.m. will be followed by a public discussion “Why Cut When You Can Fade?”. In a discussion about cinema, choreography, vitality and embodied technique, artists Greta Grinevičiutė (LMTA), Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė (LMTA) and Miklós Ambrózy (VDA) will open their unfinished works to the public and invite them to join the creation process itself and look at the works in their own way. Projects developed by artists range from the intersection of cinema, performance and microbiology to poetic essays and odes to the sea.

Photo of the film’s authors/Miki Ambrózy, the project “Seeds of Disappearance” is being developed.

On the last day of the festival ritual in Nida – the main festival program and a cocktail of bright works

August 1 (Thursday) In the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nida, cinematographic rituals, art and sacred space will come together. Here at 9 p.m. the evening will begin with an international program of experimental films exploring ritual. The program’s films explore the mysterious relationship between symbol and time. After reaching Nida after Vilnius, the main festival program will travel to Klaipėda, responding to the theme of this year’s festival with a ritualistic repetition.

10 p.m. viewers will be treated to the program “The future will not be shown on television (under 25 and already experimenting!)” curated by film artist Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy, in collaboration with Laura Gudaite and Yuri Dobriakovs. This is a vivid presentation of one-screen works by art students aged 19-25. Contemporary issues are touched upon in the works of young artists.

The ritual will continue in Klaipėda

After three days of cinema, as a ritual, in Nida, “Compressed Time” will traditionally move to Klaipėda, where on August 14-16, it will offer Klaipėda residents and guests of the city to immerse themselves in experimental cinema as well. Ecopoetics, speculative genealogy of Lithuanian experimental cinema, exceptional films from Kuala Lumpur itself and three-day workshops, which have become traditional, will await the audience at the “Hofas” event space. More information coming soon.
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The “Compressed Time” festival was held in Vilnius on July 24-25, will visit Nida from July 30-August 1, and will invite the audience to Klaipėda on August 14-16. The entire festival program and schedule of events is on the “Suspaustas laikos” Facebook account – https://www.facebook.com/suspaustaslaikas.