For the most loyal viewers, the festival, which is taking place for the ninth summer in a row, is like an inseparable part of July and August, like a ritual, an attribute of every summer, which includes cinema, fellowship and new discoveries. However, this time the festival organizers invite you to expand the concept of “ritual” and to discover “ritual” not around the cinema, but in it.
The theme of the festival is ritual
“Ritual consists of repetitions, symbols and structuring movement. The purpose of the ritual is to tame time. The same can be said regarding experimental cinema,” the festival organizers say.
This year’s program includes films that attempt to stop or adapt to the passing of time, and symbols that fill the space with recognizable content, actions, characters, and objects. The organizers of the festival offer to experience the known, but unknown, ritual space through cinema.
Ritual research and performance evening at the MO Museum
Traditionally, the opening of “Compressed Time” will take place in the cinema hall of the MO Museum, where on July 24 (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. the “ritual” of the festival will be started by a fresh cocktail of one-screen works of 19-25-year-old art students “The future will not be shown on television (under 25 and already experimenting!)”. This program is curated and presented by Vilnius film artist Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy, in collaboration with Laura Gudaite and Jurijs Dobriakovs.
Raito Low Jing-Yi filmo „Blumentanz“ stop kadras
On the first day of the festival, the audience will also be treated to an international program of experimental films.
July 25 (Thursday) at 7 p.m. This is not the first year that “Suspaustas vajkas”, cooperating with “Baltic Analog Lab” (LV), will present “SPECTRAL Expanded” and invite you to a cinema performance evening with Miguel Ángel Puertas and artist duo Marek Pluciennik and Başak Günak. The event will be followed by a discussion with the artists.
“Ryškiai Matinė” program, eco-poetry and familiarization with creative processes in Nida
From July 30 to August 1, the festival program will traditionally move to Nida, where the Nida Evangelical Lutheran Church will become an unusual movie theater for three consecutive evenings. July 30 (Tuesday) the audience will be waiting for the program “Rishkiai Matinė” by Pablo Marino, a filmmaker from Argentina, in which the themes of travel and ritual are interwoven into a poetic narrative. The creator’s films, according to the festival organizers, not only demonstrate his unique artistic vision, but also deeply engage with the broader movements of avant-garde cinema. An artist will also participate in the event.
Marek Pluciennik ir „Baltic Analog Lab“
July 31 (Wednesday) the audience will be treated to a film program created by Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė and Mikló (Miki) Ambrózy, where the projects of the three artists will be presented. In their works, the creators look at cinema through various filmmaking methods and create hybrid performances. By opening up their unfinished works to others, these artists invite to join the creative process itself. Get ready to answer the question – “Does the sea have a heart?”
And on the last night in Nida, August 1. (Thursday) the audience will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in eco-poetry. This is a film program curated by Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy that will expand our senses and remind us of the need and impact of experimental arts.
In Klaipėda – from the genealogy of Lithuanian experimental cinema to films from Kuala Lumpur
From August 14 to 16, fans of experimental cinema are invited to the “Hof” event space, where the third part of this year’s “Compressed Time” program – the “ritual” – will take place. August 14 (on Wednesday) the Klaipėda program of the festival will be opened by eco-poetry, which invites the dialogue to “start with observation with the fingers”. “In this program, the films are arranged as couplets. Each film asks questions that are answered or made more difficult by the other,” says program curator Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy.
On August 15 (Thursday), the audience will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the speculative genealogy of Lithuanian experimental cinema and to look at the program of exceptional films from Kuala Lumpur.
In Klaipėda, the three-day workshop, which has already become traditional, will await the audience. More information coming soon. And the journey of “Compressed Time” will be closed by a “ritual” film program, which, responding to the theme of this year’s festival, ritually traveled through Vilnius, Nida and Klaipėda.
Pablo Marín film „Denkbilder“ stop kadras
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The “Compressed Time” festival will be held in Vilnius on July 24-25, will visit Nida on July 30-August 1, and will invite the audience to Klaipėda on August 14-16. Full festival program and schedule of events – On the “Pressed Time” Facebook account.
The “Suspaustas laikas” festival is supported by the Lithuanian Cinema Center, Klaipėda City Municipality “Neringa – Culture Island”, Neringa Culture and Tourism Information Center “Agila”, “Creative Europe”, “Baltic Analog Lab”, companies “Epson”, “DUV” and Clear Chanel.
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2024-07-18 21:43:54
