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The Corridor
(Koridorius)

Screening on Film
Directed by Sharunas Bartas.
With Viacheslav Amirhanian, Sarunas Bartas, Katerina Golubeva.
Germany/Lithuania, 1994, 35mm, black & white, 85 min.

Bartas described his starkly poetic second feature as "a film about the extremes of exhaustion caused by loneliness, aggression, and love" in the post-Soviet experience. Set amongst the melancholy inhabitants of a rundown apartment building in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, the film unfolds as an associative collage of memory fragments, shards of experience, and chance events amongst a number of the building’s inhabitants—all connected by the metaphor of the corridor, a passage between "yesterday and today, containing many doors." As in the director’s other works, narrative logic is eschewed in favor of the poetry of loss and desire, here made even more abstract by the haunting black-and-white cinematography.

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