Taip toliau:
ANIMAL GAZE

Animals appear on the cinema screens since the beginning of the history of moving images, but recently more and more films are created in effort to reflect on the human-animal relationship and to achieve a new, different sensitivity. Using diverse means of expression filmmakers are trying to transgress traditional tactics of animal representation, usually enforced by humans' assumed position of power over it. A few new examples, previously not screened in Lithuania, are selected for this programme: Andrea Arnold’s film Cow (2021) from Cannes Film Festival, Berlin awarded film Pepe (2024) by Nelson Carlos de Los Santos, and sr (2024) by Lea Hartlaub from Rotterdam Film Festival. Beside these titles, two films, holding a distinct place in the history of cinema, will be screened: Au hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson (1966), which is often cited as an essential turn in the animal representation, making one a full character, and I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like by Bill Viola (1986), which stands out for it’s effort to access our common animal consciousness. Also, two films by Lithuanian filmmakers Aistė Žegulytė and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, being a part of this new tendency and offering fresh perspectives, will be presented in the dialogues with the short films.

Programme is partly financed by: Lithuanian Film Centre, Embassy of Spain in Lithuania, Institut français de Lituanie, Goethe-Institut Lithuania