Silent film evening “Film Alchemist from Lithuania”

Animation by Ladislas Starevich
Live music by Viktoras Orestas Vagusevičius

Evening program includes films by one of the pioneers of stop motion animation, Ladislas Starevich, and a discussion by Aleksas Gilaitis & Jurij Meden.

All films will be accompanied by pianist Viktoras Orestas Vagusevičius.

Duration of the films: 80 min.
The discussion will be held in English.

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Aleksas Gilaitis is a freelance film archivist and curator with expertise in the long-term conservation and management of nitrate film collections. In recent years he has worked at the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, the Ltd “Lithuanian Cinema,” and the Jugoslovenska Kinoteka in Belgrade.
Aleksas is founder and head curator of “Pirmoji Banga” . Pirmoji Banga/Film Festival is the first film festival in Lithuania entirely dedicated to archival pre-war films, splitting its program between silent films and early sound films. It has been taking place for the past three years at the cinema center “Skalvija” in Vilnius with increasing popularity.

Jurij Meden is a curator at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna. Previously he worked as head of the program department at the Slovenian Cinematheque in Ljubljana and curator of film exhibitions at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. He helped preserve and restore a number of Yugoslavian experimental films. He also worked as editor at the scientific and academic publishing house Sophia in Ljubljana, editor-in-chief of KINO! journal for cinema, poetry and politics, and co-director of the Nitrate Picture Show, festival of film conservation. He is the recipient of the 2017 Jon Garlock Labor Educator of the Year Award.

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Free entrance, registration contact@ltartvienna.com

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Visual design by Rūta Vėbraitė

Supported by Stadt Wien & Lithuanian Council for Culture