Ltu.presents.....: Once in the XX Century
Release.date.....: 2010.05.30
Store.date.......: N/A
Theatrical.date..: N/A
Genre............: Documentary
Runtime..........: 8min
Language.........: No language / can be heard Lithuanian in the background
Subtitles........: N/A
Video.size.......: 175MB 13x15MB
Audio............: 128kbps 48000Hz Stereo MPEG Layer 3
Video............: 2900kbps 640x464 1.37 25.000fps XviD 1.2.1
Source...........: PAL R2 DVD5
Link.............: http://www.secession.at/art/2007_narkevicius_e.html
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/persons/deimantas-narkevicius/
http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/7818
Rating...........: N/A
Plot.............: Once in the XXth Century (8 min., 2004) shows the installation
of a Lenin statue with an applauding audience on a public square in Vilnius. Using
Lithuanian television footage that originally documented the dismantling of the
Lenin monument in the 1990s, Deimantas Narkevicius edited a new film of the monument
being erected. After the majority of the socialist monuments were removed at the
end of the last century, either by spontaneous popular action or by the state,
they now testify, as fleeting and dematerialized traces, to a collective but
unfulfilled belief in an alternative society. In his video, Deimantas Narkevicius
uses this 'reversal of images' to bring the cult of personality and the public
installation of ideological symbols, which have long since become history, into
the present. In formal terms, Once in the XXth Century is an ironic commentary on
the recurring scenes of ideological manifestations in various political epochs, and
on the resulting iconoclasm as a radical measure of historical correction.
Notes............: DVD title says XX not XXth, same with the links above, except the plot.
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