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Opening of “Artists’ Film International 2025”

Mykolas Valantinas, Lullaby’s Fault, 2025. Film still. Courtesy and copyright of the artist. Created as part of MA in Photography program at École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL).

On November 27th at 7 PM, the opening of the exhibition “Artists’ Film International 2025” (AFI’25) will take place at Sapieha Palace great hall. The exhibition is curated by Povilas Gumbis.

 

Admission is open to everyone who has obtained a free ticket.

 

 

Programme

Antanas Lučiūnas, „Quiet Life“, 2025. Photograph by Diana Puraitė.

“Quiet Life” is an ongoing musical project by Antanas Lučiūnas, unfolding through collaborations across sound, image, and performance. Using the band as a vessel for artistic production, “Quiet Life” functions as an instrument for collective making. This latest formation features Virgile Guillaud on guitar.

 

 

Screening of Mykolas Valentinas’ video work “Lullaby’s Fault” (2025).

 

Lullaby’s Fault explores the interior of a fractured and incoherent psyche. Set in rural Lithuania, it follows twin brothers whose vivid imaginations turn innocent play into violence. Rather than depicting violent acts directly, the film shifts its focus to their aftermath. Alternating between past and present, it explores the surreal, fragmented logic of a mind struggling to process trauma and find healing.

 

 

Artists’s Film International was established in 2008 by Whitechapel Gallery in London and since its inception has seen 32 international venues collaborate. It is an alternative, lateral programme that exemplifies non-hierarchical, borderless and collaborative curatorial models. Responding to urgent global topics, the programme cultivates collective practice and cross-cultural dialogue, fosters the exchange of ideas and perspectives, and provides wide reaching visibility for artists.

 

Dream States – the 18th edition of Artists’ Film International – commences on 3 March, with programming taking place around the world throughout 2025. At the intersection of personal consciousness and external realities, Dream States explores the emancipatory potential of dreams, altered states, and cinematic illusion.

 

 

Caution: the performance contains strobe lighting that may affect photosensitive viewers

 

 

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