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Evaldas Jansas

Abandoned ★ Mystery

Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur | 16:50 | Lituanie | 2012

This film is based on the expedition to Latvia between the 3rd and 6th of May, 2012. The researchers visited the former Soviet military centre in Irbene with the world?s eighth-largest radio telescope and the Libava fortress, the most expensive and ambitious project of the Czarist Russian army on the Baltic sea, taken over by the Third Reich and then the Soviets. Soundtrack of film is created from audible and hidden sounds, collected from abandoned places and bunkers in Latvia. The soundtrack comprise of field recordings, contact microphones and special circuit for receiving land signals.

Evaldas Jansas (b. 1969) lives and works in Vilnius. In the last decade of the 20 c. Evaldas Jansas became known as a performance and video artist. Transgressive art of Jansas is often autobiographical and conveys an authentic everyday life of the artist. His video works often expose abject reality. The everyday life documented in his works is ephemeral, fragmented, immediate, but it expresses certain ambivalence. The most recent works of Evaldas Jansas combine a grotesque, an absurd and the parody of social themes expressed through the nonlinear montage and narrative.