NGA Auditorium
27 April, 18:30 a public panel discussion with editors of magazines on visual arts and culture covering the Baltic and Nordic region will take place at the National Gallery of Art.
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NDG Auditorija
We invite you to a discussion and presentation of the documentary short film 'It Rains in Vilnius' ("Piove a Wilno") by Giorgio Ruggeri and Ignė Narbutaitė, which is screened at the exhibition "Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne 1918 - 1948. One City - Many Stories". The presentation will take place on 7 December at 5 pm at the Auditorium of the National Gallery of Art.
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NGA Auditorium
The curatorial discussion series "No Cutting Corners" invites practitioners and theoreticians of visual art exhibition curation to discuss their methods and strategies, the challenges they face, and the broader contexts of contemporary exhibitions.
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NGA Auditorium
The curatorial discussion series "No Cutting Corners" invites practitioners and theoreticians of visual art exhibition curation to discuss their methods and strategies, the challenges they face, and the broader contexts of contemporary exhibitions. Participants of the next talk: Augustas Čičelis, Suza Husse, Laima Kreivytė. Moderated by Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė
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The presentation, moderated by historian Aurimas Švedas, will
explore the archival research and creative process behind the film,
the link with Andrea Griffante's book "Baltic East: Italian views
of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1918-2018", and Giedrė
Jankevičiūtė's curatorial choice to include the piece within the
exhibition "Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne 1918-1948. One City - Many
Stories".
Giorgio Ruggeri's and Ignė Narbutaitė's archival documentary short
film attempts at reconstructing an audiovisual experience of a city
that no longer exists, but that at the same time is still here,
almost unchanged in its essence. In this impression-based,
multilayered portrait of Vilnius, we observe the city through the
perspective of Italian reporters who visited it and wrote about it
between 1920 and 1939.
The film's narrative experiment is based on the combination of
such texts with another corpus of historical sources - archival
footage filmed in Vilnius and its surroundings during the same
years by Polish, Lithuanian, Jewish, and German operators.
Therefore, it moves on the threshold between documentary and
imaginary. Whether all the words and moving images in it are
historical records, their assemblage is purely fictional.
Speakers:
Giorgio Ruggeri - researcher, co-director of "Piove a Wilno"
Ignė Narbutaitė - film editor, co-director of "Piove a
Wilno"
Giedrė Jankevičiūtė - art historian and curator
Andrea Griffante - historian
Moderator:
Aurimas Švedas, historian
Project implementer:
Lithuanian Institute of History
Project is financed by:
Lithuanian Council for Culture and Research Council of
Lithuania
Partners: Lithuanian National Museum of Art and
National Museum in Krakow
