New Baltic Cinema

My Grandfather

5 min. | Drama | N/A

A short life story of Algimantas Bučiūnas is told through occasional and complementary fragments from today and from the past that often discord in a very comic way. Director filmed a casual day of her grandfather who lives in Panevėžys. Incongruity of his grandchild's view through the camera and his memories of himself allows the viewer to form an individual portrait of the film character."Despite (or maybe precisely because) my grandfather talking all the time, no one has ever looked closer into stories he's got to tell. Observing him through the lens of my camera for one continuous day, I managed to concoct a rough, fragmented portrait of my grandfather Algimantas. It presents and explores the somewhat comic dissonance between the notion of his own past and the way he appears to me in the present”, says director Rūta Bučiūnaitė.

Rūta Bučiūnaitė

Rūta Bučiūnaitė

Rūta Bučiūnaitė was born in 1990 in Panevėžys and grew up in Vilnius. Currently she is completing her film studies in London. She is planning to work in film in her future (either experimental, documentary or commercial). The short film My Grandfather is her first and so far the only individual project filmed in Lithuania. Presently Rūta is working in the film industry in England.
Languages
Lithuanian
Subtitles
English
Produced
2011: Lithuania

Film information

Director
Rūta Bučiūnaitė
Screenplay
Rūta Bučiūnaitė
Cinematography
Rūta Bučiūnaitė
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