Artūras Barysas Movies

Scenes from Vilnius, the city breathes new beginnings, change is in the air. Then clouds gather and a storm breaks out. Long thought to be lost, this...

A young couple with a child long for an idyllic life in the countryside.

A film by Arturas Barysas, one of Lithuania's "counter-culture" avant-garde pioneers.

The cult character of Vilnius, Artūras Barysas-Baras (1954-2005), even before he became the vocalist of the group "Ir vis tai ka yra gražu...

A lyrical short film (from Artūras Barysas-Baras), with an aura of subversive irony.

A short film by Lithuanian avant-garde filmmaker Artūras Barysas-Baras.

Walk in the forest: The search for mushrooms turns into a psychedelic trip for a young woman.

A slow procession on May 9th, 1980. ”Victory Day”. A military parade is marching, a forest of red flags, veterans in suits covered with...

A man tries in vain to escape his self-imposed cage.

Looking at the skies, pigeons, public folic, op-art.

A couple of America-worshipping cool cats cruise the streets with their pram full of forbidden fruit.

Influenced by Italian neorealism and by the social environment of the heroes: ruins, landscapes, Khrushchev-apartment houses rising on the outskirts...

US is an ironic look at the Victory Day Communist parade on the main street of Vilnius.

A film dedicated to those who intend to begin writing poetry.

Footage from the shoot/editing of Her Love (Excerpt).

Two men climb out of a pit in the earth and dissolve into a wild collage of patterns, images and bodies. Barysas’ most experimental film.

Spring: A woman and two men escape the city and settle in the wilderness. Nothing spoils the idyll. A film as a promise of happiness.

A caution or depiction on the consequences of making mischief.

It’s all about forbidden. Fruit.

A visit to the cafe develops into a Dadaist parody of real socialist service.