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Nevermore is centered on the legend of Edgar Allan Poe, which serves as a ghostly connection between different racial communities in today's Baltimore today. Poe’s figure can be seen as a tool with which to explore popular imagination and to reflect upon present-time anxieties about identity and place.

Director and producer: Gerda Paliusyte (b. 1987) The last two films directed by Gerda Paliusyte were well received in the worlds of contemporary art and cinema. Her documentary film The Road Movie, which captured the legendary rap duo ONYX as they travelled through Vilnius, Lithuania, was commissioned by the XII Baltic Triennial of international art in 2015 and was screened at famous film festivals such as the Toronto Film Festival (as part of the Wavelengths series) in 2017. In 2019, her film project “2002” was selected for Berlinale Talents, the Short Film Station. In her works, Paliusyte explores cultural history and the stereotypes and contradictions found within it. She is interested in various documentary practices (such as docufiction) and diverse historical and popcultural characters, and their relationship with social reality.