Atelier Audrius Stonys
Gates of the Lamb is an atypical film in the work of Audrius Stonys. Firstly, because it was initiated by a Lithuanian cleric, Gediminas Numgaudis, who even entirely produced it outside...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
During the Second World War, a Lithuanian farmer found the bodies of three dead soldiers — two Russians and a German — near his house. Fearing reprisals, he quickly buried them in a ravine where he...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
A wedding home movie, the only trace of past happiness, was saved from the flames that destroyed the house of a couple. Stonys follows here the way of the cross of the victims, who are starting again...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Almost entirely composed of archives, Four Steps is Audrius Stonys' most literally ethnographic film. The reels shown do not come from official institutions, but from Lithuanian family films shot...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
During the Swedish-Lithuanian war 300 years ago, the bell of the Plateliai church was apparently dismantled and then left to sink at the centre of the eponymous lake. In 2006, Audrius Stonys followed...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
The start of the film: we hear a nurse in the process of putting a man onto life support. Who is he? The name engraved on a headstone in the next shot? Setting off in the footsteps of Augustinas...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Alone (a prize-winner at Visions du Réel in 2001) is a film whose power appears inversely proportional to the simplicity of its approach: a filmmaking team, which appears on screen several times,...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Fedia draws calmly on his cigarette when the director asks him to comment on God, Heaven and Hell or the Big Bang, which two scholars are “describing” in front of the camera. It's the silence of the...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Accompanied by a dissonant violin, two old friends take up a traditional song evoking an aviator shot down during the war, who never came back to his beloved. Then a child goes down a cycle path,...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
In an isolated village in the Lithuanian countryside, an old woman faces the camera and recites a poem. Later, she will scale a vertiginous ladder up to the roof of a church, like this man who is...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
With Baltic Way , shot at the end of his film studies, Audrius Stonys seizes the first and irrepressible breath of freedom wafting across the places, bodies and views of his people during the...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
From his first film directed in 1989, Audrius laid the foundations of his documentary poetry: filming the life of humble people—here, a community centred around the figure of a priest—like a...
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