Artist: Gintaras Makarevicius (LT)
Genre: Art Film
Lithuania, 2002 / 3 min (Mini DV), b/w & sound

The Film
Fragments from a rough everyday conflict, recorded at night, become laconic titles on a screen without an image. The phrases that appear, one after the other, across the empty stretch of the video monitor—»Open the door!«, »Why are you silent?«, »Can you hear me?«, etc. do not correspond to the aggression and tension of the soundtrack in the headphones. Like a skilled surgeon, the author has separated the sounds in the original tape, cut out non-Lithuanian words, translated the remaining text into English, and realized his intention with formal means only—the Gothic lettering on the black screen. What he has achieved is the complete sterilization of conflict.
Text from: Walls for NATO, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, 2001

Gintaras Makarevicius
Gintaras Makarevicius (b. 1965 in Trakai, Lithuania) studied painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts 1988-1994.