Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks (1990-91-94)
Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks:
1. PRAEJUSIOS DIENOS ATMINIMUI (1990)
2. TRYS DIENOS (1991)
3. KORIDORIUS (1994)
1. PRAEJUSIOS DIENOS ATMINIMUI (1990)
2. TRYS DIENOS (1991)
3. KORIDORIUS (1994)
Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks (1990-91-94)
Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks (1990-91-94)
Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks (1990-91-94)
Praéjusios dienos atminimui (1990) aka "In Memory of the Day Passed By"
Director and writer: Šarūnas Bartas - Lithuania - 1990 - b/w
DVDRIP | 39 min | MKV-x264 720x544 | 25 fps | AC3 224 kb/s | 510 MB
Language: No dialog | No subs needed | Genre: Arthouse - Experimental documentary - Short
The film is a day in the life that passes by, even if it seems neverending. In the morning the streets are alive with people, pedestrians and cars, with loud and exultant noise. Such sounds accompany the restless walk of a woman and her child across a dusty street, while Bartas’ gaze wanders through many different perspectives.
Of this "city symphony," a documentary companion piece to his Three Days, director Sharunas Bartas wrote: "I have always been attracted to the city. Sometimes it seems that it’s nature’s creation; that some invisible force has gathered lots of people into one huge living creature… Nowhere does man feel so lonely as he does in the city. And nowhere does he dive into such reckless rejoicing."
Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks (1990-91-94)
Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks (1990-91-94)
Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks (1990-91-94)
Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks (1990-91-94)
Trys dienos (1991) aka "Three Days"
Director and writer: Šarūnas Bartas - Lithuania - 1991 - color
DVDRIP | 76 min | MKV-x264 720x544 | 25 fps | AC3 224 kb/s | 1.03 GB
Language: Lithuanian | English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch subs embedded in the mkv file | Genre: Arthouse - Experimental - Drama
Cast: Yekaterina Golubeva, Rimma Latypova, Arunas Sakalauskas, Audrius Stonys
Two Lithuanian friends journey from a village in Lithuania to Kaliningrad, the postwar Russian city built on the remains of Prussian Königsberg, where they pick up two Russian girls and spend three days together. In the gray industrial landscapes there, they stroll through town, stand around, search the harbor front unsuccessfully for a place to make love, then part. But this is the only problem they do solve. All four justly feel miserable because their lives are meaningless (the recurrent dull and poorly kept house façads could well be taken as a comparative symbol). The words they exchange reveal hardly anything about them, their body language not much more. In addition, everyone is so absorbed by his or her own distress and hardly capable of bothering about the anguish of the others. The three days end with a pervasive lack of contact.
Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks (1990-91-94)
Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks (1990-91-94)
Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks (1990-91-94)
Koridorius (1994) aka "The Corridor"
Director and writer: Šarūnas Bartas - Lithuania - 1994 - b/w
DVDRIP | 77 min | MKV-x264 720x544 | 25 fps | AC3 224 kb/s | 952 MB
Language: No dialog | No subs needed | Genre: Arthouse - Experimental - Drama
Cast: Yekaterina Golubeva, Viacheslav Amirhanian, Sharunas Bartas, Eimuntas Nekroshius, Mantvydas Janeliunas
Non narrative, with no dialog, set in the country's capital, Vilnius, in a run-down apartment, the film is a highly-symbolic chronicle of daily life there. At one point someone holds a party featuring music, dancing, plenty of cigarette puffing, and a smidgen of sex.
Sharunas Bartas described his starkly poetic second feature as "a film about the extremes of exhaustion caused by loneliness, aggression, and love" in the post-Soviet experience. Set amongst the melancholy inhabitants of a rundown apartment building in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, the film unfolds as an associative collage of memory fragments, shards of experience, and chance events amongst a number of the building’s inhabitants—all connected by the metaphor of the corridor, a passage between "yesterday and today, containing many doors." As in the director’s other works, narrative logic is eschewed in favor of the poetry of loss and desire, here made even more abstract by the haunting black-and-white cinematography.
Three Šarūnas Bartas' Masterworks (1990-91-94)
