01 ABOUT THE CAMP

Cinema Camp is an International summer event in nature organized by “Meno avilys”, seeking to create the space for an informal dialogue about cinema. Here, film screenings are followed by discussions with filmmakers, film academics read specially prepared lectures, campers take part in creative workshops. Participants can also take a rest by the lake, and dance in the evenings.

Since 2010, the themes of the Camp were: "The boundaries of cinema genres", "Cinema and Freedom", "Cinema and History", "Cinema and Sound", "Cinema and the Body", "Cinema and Politics", "Cinema Eye", “Welcome to Anthropocene".

This year’s Camp is all about “Imperfect Cinema”. But what is it? “Imperfection” might relate to the process of creation, when filmmakers break established rules searching for unconventional language of their own. It could be born on the film set under artificial lights or on the street where everyone can be an actor. It might also be related to the materiality of cinema such as scratched films or glitched videos. Generally, imperfect cinema embodies the opposition to imposed norms, control, and power structures. But then, how do marginal cinema movements start, and how do independent filmmakers, deliberately turning away from the constricting financial mechanisms, work?

We will look for the answers to all of these questions and much more in the Cinema Camp.

GUESTS

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03 PROGRAMME

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Thursday, 9 August

Excursion in Salos

18:00

Imperfect Cinema. Several Stories. A short presentation by Lukas Brašiškis followed by a discussion with Lithuanian filmmakers

19:00

Andrėja Šaltytė presents her video installation “The 7th Declension”

20:30

Film screening Tercer Mundo, Tercera Guerra Mundial (Julio García Espinosa, 1970, 90’), film screening presented by Michael Chanan

21:30

Friday, 10 August

Future Perfect: a talk by Peggy Ahwesh of made and unmade films by Ahwesh with historical framework from Maya Deren. A follow-up discussion is led by Erika Balsom

17:00

Dinner time

19:00

Chance and Film, a talk by Jem Cohen and screening of his films

20:00

Music by Herb Shellenberger and Filomino DJ’s

22:30

Breakfast

10:00

Different But Equal: Soviet Amateur Film Clubs and the Culture of Imperfect Filmmaking, presentation by Maria Vinogradova

11:00

Politics of Imperfection: Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian and Found Footage, presentation by Miriam De Rosa

12:30

Lunch Break

14:00

Imperfect Fit: the video mixtape as curatorial methodology, a presentation by Herb Shellenberger followed by a screening of the select short film program

15:30

Saturday, 11 August

Breakfast

09:00

Baltic Analog Lab: Latvian film collective presents a Baltic experimental film program

10:30

St. Tula, A Patron of Imperfect Films, Peggy Ahwesh’s tribute to Adolfas Mekas followed by a screening of Hallelujah the Hills (Adolfas Mekas, 80'., 1963, JAV)

12:30

Lunch Break

14:30

Imperfection of Films by Edward Owens, a presentation by Ed Halter followed by the screening of Owens’ films

16:00

Native Videographers Shot Back, screening of INAATE/SE (2016, 68') and The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets (2018, 10') by Adam and Zack Khalil followed by a discussion moderated by Leo Goldsmith