CINEMATIC SHIFT FROM THE FRONT TO THE BACKGROUND. LANDSCAPE IN A POST WORD ERA

Abstract

With great honour to readers of “Culture Crossroads” we are offering an essay by outstanding Lithuanian documentary film director Audrius Stonys (1966), in which he shares reflections on spatial and temporal changes in documentary films within the historical context by fixating cinematic turns in elements of mise?en?scène, especially in the landscape representation. The author is looking more closely at what is happening in the front and back- ground of the documentary film “Ten Minutes Before the Flight of Icarus” (Dešimt minučių prieš Ikaro skrydį, 1990) directed by Arūnas Matelis (1961), a contempo- rary of Stonys. This particular film has been considered as a landmark which led to a shift towards a new era in Lithuanian documentary cinema.