DOWN TO EARTH
2018, 18', short hybrid

Lithuania, Poland

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Director: Kipras Dubauskas

Screenwriter: Eglė Razumaitė

DOP: Vytautas Juozėnas

Second camera operator: Kipras Dubauskas

Sound designer: Jokūbas Čižikas

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The film’s protagonist, Adrian from Warsaw, sets off for Lithuania. His destination is the village of Dieveniškės, located in the country’s “appendix,” where he hopes to find relatives. Convinced that part of his identity remains undiscovered, Adrian is drawn to this unfamiliar land, where the spell haunting generations of his family may finally be broken—or his tragic destiny fulfilled.

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His family tree reaches back to the 16th century but contains one incomplete branch. Adrian hopes that newly discovered relatives and this unexplored place will free him from the belief that he is cursed by a black crow—an emblem he discovered in the heraldry of a distant ancestor, the poet Jan Kochanowski.

The circumstances of Kochanowski’s death remain unclear: his grave was robbed and his skull has long been considered missing. The mystery seems to echo in Adrian’s own life—he lost both parents in car accidents, his mother when he was seven and his father when he was nineteen.

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Burdened by a sense of fate, Adrian feels different from others. His life appears to be a chain of strange coincidences and forebodings of a tragic end.

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The video installation includes copies of original documents and props from the film.

Read about the exhibition: https://echogonewrong.com/photo-reportage-exhibition-waiting-another-coming-cac-vilnius/