Earth of the Blind

Earth of the Blind

Director Audrius Stonys

24 min. · Lithuania, 1992 · Documentary · Lithuanian · Subtitles: English · N/A

About the film

This film is impossible to explain by usual plot and character formulas. The film is a unique synthesis of image and sound that pushes viewers to the border of the world graspable for human senses. Boundaries between visible and invisible, audible and inaudible are being blurred. The atmosphere, sounds and people of Earth of the Blind invite one to stop, listen and evaluate human existence in the alienated world. 20 years after the creation of the film, the team gathers again to restore its authentic images and sounds. Digitalized and restored, film offers a unique possibility to see it as it was seen twenty years ago. Earth of the Blind is the first film resurrected to new life in the frames of Anthology of Lithuanian Documentary Cinema Project, implemented by public organization Meno Avilys.

Details

Running time
24 min.
Country, year
Lithuania, 1992
Genre
Documentary
Language
Lithuanian
Subtitles
English
Age rating
N/A

Credits

Director
Audrius Stonys
Screenplay
Audrius Stonys
Cinematography
Rimvydas Leipus
Music
Vidmantas Bartulis, Viktoras Juzonis
More information
www.imdb.com

Festivals and awards

  • European Film Awards Felix Award for the Best Documentary in Europe.
Audrius Stonys

Director

Audrius Stonys

Audrius Stonys was born in 1966 in Vilnius. Director, producer, member of European Film Academy and European Documentary Network. Studied TV and film directing in Vilnius conservatory 1984-1989. Trained at Jonas Mekas Anthology Film Archive in New York. His films got many international film awards. In 1992 the film Earth of the Blind received the European Film Academy’s Felix Award as the Best European Documentary Film of the Year.