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“I bumped into Kemežys at the CAC – we were both working there at the time – and I said, ‘Take a photo of me.’ ‘Alright,’ he said, ‘I’ll bring the camera.’ I was sweaty, wearing a T-shirt, but I threw on a jacket. I opened Čiurlionis’ book, which has his portrait in it, and I looked at my reflection in the window of the CAC courtyard on the first floor. I asked him, ‘What do you think, does it look similar if I stand like this?’ Click. It took four takes to do it. We chose one of those photos. Others agreed it looked similar. That portrait of me ended up hanging in a winery – people would say, ‘Yeah, I know, that’s the painter, Čiurlionis.’ It’s like KFC or Che Guevara on a T-shirt, it’s like a brand – you get confused, you get mistaken,” said Donatas Jankauskas-Duonis.

Excerpt from a conversation between Asta Vaičiulytė and Donatas Jankauskas-Duonis

Photo: M.K. Čiurlionis Museum of Art, photographer Gustina Keturakytė

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Lukas Brasiskis interviews Deimantas Narkevičius | From Tarkovsky to AI: On the Evolving Resonance of Solaris

Lukas Brasiskis is the Curator of Film and Video at e-flux. He was a co-curator of the 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023–24) and is one of the three Artistic Directors of the upcoming Seoul Media City Biennale (2025). After receiving his PhD degree in Cinema Studies from New York University in 2022, he has taught courses at Columbia University and Brooklyn College/CUNY. His writing on moving image is widely published, and most recently he was the co-editor of Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe (Berghahn Press, 2024) and Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running (Yale University Press, 2022). Since 2024, he has been a co-editor of e-flux’s weekly publication Film Notes.

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Valentinas Klimašauskas | Vocal Notes for Labouring Worlds

Valentinas Klimašauskas is a curator and writer. In 2024, he curated the Lithuanian pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennial (with Jo.o Laia, artists: Pakui Hardware and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė) and ‘Inflammation’, a solo show by Pakui Hardware, at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius. Together with Jo.o Laia, Klimašauskas curated ‘The Endless Frontier’, the 14th Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius (2021). Other recent curatorial projects include ‘Ocean Eyes’, the Coast Contemporary festival in Lofuotta/L.fot/Lofoten Islands (2023); ‘An Incomplete & Unreliable Guide to Social Media War Room’ as part of the ‘Curated by’ festival at Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna (2021) and ‘The s*x lives of fruit flies’ at Low gallery, Riga (2021). Klimašauskas is the author of Telebodies. Bleeding Subtitles for Postrobotic Scenes (Mousse Publishing, 2024).

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