newsletter #3

Funny how reality and fiction can sometimes be both so surreal. More often than ever filmmakers seem obsessed by surrealism nowadays. So we decided to go on a quest for a quest for examples and reasons behind such a pheno-menon, as the program at Kaunas International Film festival is filled with perfect examples. First, we caught up with Latvian legendary director Yevgeny Pashkevich; took a deeper look at a Ca-nadian experimental “orgy” called Keyhole; and marvelled at the extreme reality in a Swedish prison documentary like no other, At Night I Fly.

At Night I Fly

The walls are thick. The fences are long. The sentences are high. At Night I Fly, by Michel Wenzer, is a documentary about the inmates of New Folsom prison. However, this time the main theme isn’t the violence and the horrible events that can take place in such a place, but how prisoners spend their time in isolation. It focu-ses on the Arts-in-corrections project, in which prisoners get the possibility to express them-selves through art. READ MORE

Review by Zowi Vermeire (The Netherlands)

Interview: Golf Stream under the Iceberg

Interview by Ugne Gudzinskaite (Lithuania)Yevgeny Pashkevich new film, Latvia´s 2012 Os-car entry, talks about his first feature after a 23 years break, telling us three stories from diffe-rent periods, connected by character of Lilith, the mythical first wife of Adam. READ MOREKeyhole

Review by Donata Juskelyte (Lithuania)Twisted Canadian director Guy Maddin created, in his latest movie Keyhole, a surrealistic, ex-perimental and completely bizarre Odyssey of a man called Ulysses. The name of the main cha-racter perfectly describes the form of this movie. Just like James Joyce’s stream of consciousness technique shaped in his famous novel “Ulysses”, Maddin manipulates us with strange images and a style of epileptic editing, rather than with experi-mental prose. READ MORE

Kaunas international Film Festival 2012