In 2012, I was working for Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, and Mantas Kvedaravičius presented his memorable BARZAKH in our festival that year. My dear colleague Sonata Žalneravičiūtė here, in conversation (in Lithuanian) with Mantas, about his first steps into cinema throughout anthropology. Later in October, the film was awarded by our festival as the best documentary from the Baltics.
When I was editing this interview, I remember Mantas' silences, pauses in between the phrases. "I cut out some of his long (though charming) silences", I wrote to Sonata. I will never forget these silences. They will stay forever somewhere there, in between, cut out.

Mantas atsako į Sonatos klausimus

First time this year sleeping outside, sharing a tent with a friend and her kids - I woke up at dawn (as I usually do around this time somehow). Then all of a sudden all the birds started their songs/talks/ morning routine. Not even one after another, but all at the same time. I looked at a clock - it was 4 am, sharp. 
There’s so much life around. 
4:02 AM, 11 June 2023

Morning routine

Paris is New York sometimes
Recorded in Parc des Buttes Chaumont
9:25 PM, 19 June 2023

🎷

Šile Gegė kukavo
Šile Gegė kukavo
Gražiai galvą šukavo
Gražiai galvą šukavo
Graži mano galvelė
Graži mano galvelė
Kaip vasaros dienelė
Kaip vasaros dienelė
Pilnas dvaras svetelių
Pilnas dvaras svetelių
Pilni pirštai žiedelių
Pilni pirštai žiedelių

~~
For Dear Friend Jean-Christophe Mončys (1954-2024)
23:56 PM, 11 June 2024

Lietuva À Paris

Šile Gegė

Recorded on the Brooklyn Bridge, NYC
9:47 PM, 22 September 2017

Night is safer for the blind

Recorded in the pocket 
9:49 PM, 2 March 2018

I'm not done

The composition recorded during the concert-performance 'A Portrait of the Composer' (music composed and selected by Cory Arcangel, performed by organist Hampus Lindwall) at Saint-Denys-du-Saint-Sacrement church in Paris.
20 Oct 2018

Sweet 16

Pu-Erh Tea soundscape in the water, 
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tea sea

Mardi et le lectures illimitées
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austeauste

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