The filler
Duration
Year
Theme
Language
Subtitled
Russian English
3:44 min
2019
holocaust
Lithuanian
“The Filler” is an audio walk around the territory of the former Vilna ghetto and the intermittent turns of memories of the Holocaust. Sonic map of the journey consists of musical fragments specially composed for every space, while the direction of movement is defined by voices of four Holocaust survivors, who have moved from their hometown Vilna to Israel after WWII. Creators of “The Filler” have recorded their voices during conversations that took place in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa in May 2019. The festival program presents an excerpt of the second courtyard in Žemaitijos Str.
Dramaturgy Rimantas Ribačiauskas
Director Mantas Jančiauskas
Composers: Jūra Elena Šedytė, Andrius Šiurys
Translation: Rimantas Ribačiauskas, Ana Ablamonova, Olga Lempert, Darius Ross, Vsevolod Chernozub
Subtitles Adama Zubė
Animation Emilija Juzeliūnaitė
Rimantas Ribačiauskas
Playwright and producer working in theatre and digital media sphere or in the intersection of these fields. He has completed cultural management studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and a master's program of interactive media at Trinity College, University of Dublin. For several years, he worked at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, where in cooperation with other creators he wrote texts for the documentary performances “Green Lawn” (“Žalia pievelė”), “Dreamland”, “Marius Repšys performing” (“Vaidina Marius Repšys”), also initiated and coordinated the digital theater archive “Teatroteka”. Since 2020, he has been working as a freelance creator, writing scripts for performances, musical projects, and interactive installations.
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Mantas Jančiauskas
Director of interdisciplinary art projects. He completed his bachelor's and master's studies in directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. After graduation, he did an internship abroad, where he observed and participated in the rehearsals of Milo Rau and Krzysztof Warlikowski. He identifies his creative identity as searching between the directions of documentary, experiential and site-specific theatre. He pays great attention to politically and socially relevant topics, researches the situations of a person who finds himself in borderline situations in terms of morality, geography and time. He presented his performances and creative experiments at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, OKT Vilnius City Theatre, Vilnius Old Theater and abroad.
Jūra Elena Šedytė
Composer and performer, she has been active in the fields of electroacoustic, vocal and collective creativity for the past few years. Develops creative methods inspired by the fusion of modern-improvisational music composition techniques with other disciplines. Collective creative activity is revealed in music and interdisciplinary creative groups: “Edgy Palates”, “Ambulance on Fire”, “Warming, warming”. Jūra Elena also initiates and takes care of the publishing of music works. In 2023 she made her debut as a curator of the electroacoustic music concert series “NICHE”.
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Andrius Šiurys
Composer of electronic, academic instrumental, applied music, member and performer of various groups. In his work, musicality intertwines with surrealism, the expression of the absurd, various images, peculiar masks. The word “dream” is often repeated in program titles, a clear line of insomnia-night-mysticism in the language of metaphors and symbols. The word plays a very important role in the musical expression of the works: epigraphs, poems, excerpts are often presented at the beginning of music sheets. In the aleatoric fragments of the scores, together with the textual images, the drawings of the artist Paulina Simutytė are presented.
