At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics witnessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them. This meditative documentary essay – from a Latvian writer and Lithuanian director whose composed touch has long dovetailed with the stylistically diverse works of the Baltic New Wave – pushes adroitly past the limits of the common historiographic investigation to create a portrait of less-clearly remembered filmmakers. The result is a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation. Or a cinematic poem about cinema poets.

Bridges of Time (Audrius Stonys 2018).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 18mn
Size: 	1.13 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x576 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 911 Kbps
BPP: 	0.130
Audio
#1:  	Lithuanian 2.0ch AC-3 @ 160 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/D043C287631B4F3/Bridges_of_Time_(Audrius_Stonys_2018).mkv

Language(s):Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Russian, Hebrew
Subtitles:English

The post Kristine Briede & Audrius Stonys – Bridges of Time (2018) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The Lithuanian scientist Ausra Revutaite has spent 30 years in the Tian Shan mountain range in Central Asia, straddling the borders between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the autonomous Chinese region of Xinjiang. Some 3,500 meters above sea level with only her faithful dog and gray cat for company, she studies climate change on the Tuyuksu Glacier at an old Soviet-era research station. She loves the solitude and silence that her painstaking work brings her. Magnificent shots of her surroundings and everyday work are interspersed with archive footage of the people who preceded her by a century. Not much seems to have changed.

868MB | 56m 50s | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4065190F23C59DF/Woman_and_the_Glacier_(Audrius_Stonys_2016).mkv

Language:Lithuanian
Subtitles:English hard subs

The post Audrius Stonys – The Woman and the Glacier (2016)  first appeared on Cinema of the World.

“After “Antigravitation” I wanted to make another step up, where the last prop under your actions disappears. “Flying Over the Blue Field” is a movie about loneliness in an infinite sky. Man stays with himself and a home-made plane, balancing on the perimeter between death and life.”

291MB | 19m 49s | 700×532 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/327A15EE3148609/Flying_Over_the_Blue_Field_(Audrius_Stonys_1996).mkv

Language:Lithuanian
Subtitles:English hard subs

The post Audrius Stonys – Skrajojimai melynam lauke AKA Flying Over the Blue Field (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

About the movie
Film is about immeasurable loneliness of child, only loneliness and nothing more. Story was shoot without any manipulation means. Trip to prison, meeting, way home. That’s all. Movie leading to ethical problem, how deep into person’s pain we can interfere, documentary can interfere. (taken from his website stonys.lt)

615MB | 18m 11s | 1920×1080 | mkv
https://nitro.download/view/BA1A6A1A66F7E4E/Alone.(Viena).2001.Restored.1080p.WEB-DL.x264-KnightsOfNi.mkv

Language:Lithuanian
Subtitles:English

The post Audrius Stonys – Viena AKA Alone (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

According to the recorded narrations, 300 years ago, during the Lithuanian-Swedish war, the bell of Plateliai church belfry was taken down and was being carried over the ice of the frozen lake when the ice broke near the Castle island and the bell sank.

100 years later, an expedition of divers organized by the Count Shuazel searched for the sunken bell. It is said that they found the bell, but, for reasons unknown, they let it sink again. It is also said that the sound of the sunken bell can be heard from the depths of the lake.

A film crew together with a team of divers organized an expedition in the summer of 2006 to trace the sunken bell.

598MB | 0:56:15 | 704 × 576 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/68A1738B1D5E480/thebell.avi

Language:Lithuan
Subtitles:English

The post Audrius Stonys – The Bell (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
While shooting “Tree days” (director Sarunas Bartas) I met Georgian Alexander Oboladze. We lived in the same hotel room. From restaurants and parties tycoon he became completely single. For me strange is the situation then man is stranded away from homeland but haven’t lost his mentality, language; just like exotic tree grown up in Lithuania. He was wandering around Vilnius old town, knew every corner and basement of it like no one else. He was looking and finding lost time, things left by other men and creating from it his own unique world.

283MB | 19m 14s | 696×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6B446CCFD6FFCBA/Apostle_of_Ruins_(Audrius_Stonys_1993).mkv

Language:Lithuanian
Subtitles:English hard subs

The post Audrius Stonys – Apostle of ruins (1993) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

About the movie
While shooting “Flying over blue field” we lived in Bir�tonas sanatorium hotel. I was watching treatment procedures. People were plunging into bubble, mud and mineral water baths. They were going circles singing, were standing under cold water spouts. All this seemed like a sacred ritual, that frees from scurf of life. They were naked, like just born, without any signs of standing in society. Movie – silent impression about tired people “harbour”..(taken from his website www.stonys.lt)

151MB | 9m 55s | 694×574 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/40AD057034B96B7/Harbour_(Audrius_Stonys_1998).mkv

Language:Lithuanian
Subtitles:None needed

The post Audrius Stonys – Uostas AKA Harbour (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.