The return of Curonian Pilot
Live-cinema, duration varies, 2013-2015
The first of ongoing symphonic series of five video works (two are completed by this moment) working with certain mythological, historical scapes and discovering interaction of video and music approaches for performing and perception of narration or certain senses and states. All videos in the series are live performed according to scores and co-exist with musical performance. The essential moments are perception of time and the situation of spectators co-existents with silence.
The project is a visual research of mythological landscape of the Curonian Spit. It is performed in a form of live cinema, where different times, documental and staged materials, history and myth unite into one multidimensional layer of the projected image.
The film is based on a spiritual séance held by international group of artists as well as on dreams and stories collected in Nida and cultural landscape of the spit (Thomas Mann, Sartre, closed flight school, etc.). Video streams are reproduced from 2 VHS-players and one computer with media files. Streams are mixed in order and combinations related to scores and defined by twisting draidel. It is always two streams played simultaneously and overlapping. As well on stage there is a smaller screen with archive documentary footage from the spit and audio player reproducing the song performed in traditional Lithuanian manner based on a poem “To the star brother” by Russian anarcho-biocosmist A. Yaroslavskiy, which was specially translated and performed for the project.
These different streams are mixed in real time, while film is performed by special made scores. Duration is variable and equals to one bottle of wine to be drank by performer of the video.
As there are five different languages spoken in the movie and order of scenes is not determined in advance, instead of subtitles there is a special libretto given to spectators.
Project was made in Nida Art Colony in collaboration with Luisa Nobrega (performer) and Nikita Pavlov (cinematographer). Song "Žvaigždžių broliui" performed by Eglė Marčiulaitytė.
