Directed by Aideen Barry, “Folds/Pleats”, presenting the modernist architecture of Kaunas, Lithuania and dedicated to the year of European Capital of Culture Year, is being premiered in Lithuania. The film will be screened for the first time in Kaunas.
The film was made through an unusual process. The artist’s creative practice is based on community involvement: the plot is based on the stories told by the citizens, and the residents of Kaunas become characters in the film. The surrealistic “Folds/Pleats” combines the city’s heritage, history, and its people’s fictional novels.
The title of the architectural film is a metaphor for the recurring elements in interwar architecture and the creative process itself: the plot is folded from thousands of photographs. Stories fold between stories, buildings between buildings. The viewers, together with the characters, peek into the interiors of the buildings, marvel at the typical rounded windows of Kaunas and the elegant staircase doors, and gaze at the ceiling as if lying on a carpet with a cigar smouldering in between his fingers.
During the screening of the film, in the lobby of the Romuva Cinema Center, it will also be possible to see the experiential installation “Folds” and an exhibition presenting the process of making the film. Authors of the exhibition: AIDEEN BARRY, architect POVILAS VINCENTAS JANKŪNAS, technician MINDAUGAS BARNATAVIČIUS.
Director/writer AIDEEN BARRY
Director of Photography MIKAS ZABULIONIS
Music Composers: ARŪNAS PERIOKAS, PATRIS ŽIDELEVIČIUS, IEVA RAUBYTĖ
Editor & Colourist ALEKS RYDZKOWSKA
Foley Artist DOMINYKA ADOMAITYTĖ
Visual effects: ALEKSANDRAS POLEVOJUS, SIMONAS KORSAKAS, QI QIAN
Production: KAUNAS 2022 / MODERNISM FOR THE FUTURE
More about the film: https://www.klostes.com/