Competition Programme  

This documentary film is about the prisoners, creating in places of detention. The film's director listens attentively to the prisoners’ stories, where the leitmotivs of mistakes made in life, punishment and creative work, serving as a form of liberation, intertwine. Showing the world through the eyes of prisoners or social underworld, Jansas puts the spectator into such a context, which we normally do not want to know anything about – he treats us with a full-length portion of rich and specifically contradictory reality not wrapped up in glossy ideological paper, without imposing one truth or any preprepared responses.

Evaldas Jansas

Evaldas Jansas (born 1969) finished fine art studies in Vilnius Art Academy. In the beginning of 2000 he became known as a performance and video artist. He is one of the representatives of the artists’ Emission generation called so by art critics. Very often being transgressive the strategy of Evaldas Jansas’ creative work is autobiographical, conveying the artist’s routine. Even though in Jansas’ videos trivial round is ephemeral, fragmental and proximate, it has a proper duality as well – while recording the reality, he becomes an anthropologist since his characters are people met in the streets and bars. In the newest films of Evaldas Jansas grotesque, absurd and parody on social topics intertwine with the help of non-linear montage and narrative.

Selected Filmography

Personal Code (ID) / Personalinis kodas (2000)
Prick / Dūris (2001)
Anthropology of Abuse / Prievartos antropologija (2004)
To Be on Show / Būti išstatytam (2006)
Sound Track / Garso takelis (2009)