ROTATION
Video art
In the background, a reading of the poem “The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot is heard in his original reading aloud. This passage appears in Francis Ford Corpola's film "Apocalypse Now" as read by Colonel Kurtz.
REMEMBER
Video art
Every person harbors a sense of having forgotten something very important, yet the very thing forgotten is “wrapped” in the notion that one does not know it. I see an identity between the concepts of “knowing” and “remembering.”
MIŠKE
(In the forest)
Short film
A pseudo-foreign, auteur short film based on Severinus Boethius’s “Consolation of Philosophy.” The film’s title, “Miške” (lit. “In the Forest”), refers to Mikalojus Čurlionis’s musical and pictorial work “Miške.”
In some cultures, the forest symbolized the space between heaven and earth, a kind of purgatory. Much like Boethius—who, while imprisoned and awaiting a death sentence, was visited and comforted by a maiden named Philosophy—the film’s protagonist reaches an impasse in his quest, where he is struck by an epiphany, a memory, a moment of insight, or perhaps merely an illusion.
The film lacks a conventional plot; instead, the viewer’s attention—and the work’s central meaning—focuses entirely on the protagonist’s quest and whether it ultimately succeeded or failed. This outcome, like other ambiguities in the film, is left for the viewer to decide.
The background audio consists of a reading of the first chapter of the Apocalypse in Lithuanian.
