Gabrielė Labanauskaitė

With gentle irony, “Cinephilia” unmasks the illusion of film. Characters migrate through the worlds of reality and fantasy, in circumstances that paradoxically have no questions or answers. The two moons of Lars von Trier shine in the night sky, entrancing the main heroes, Roland and Isabel. Roland rents himself a room where he winds up in situations reminiscent of the plots found in Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” or Roman Polański’s “The Tenant”. A guy visits Roland, claiming that they known each other, and offers him a lot of money to film his suicide. There begins a kaleidoscopic sequence of events and random acquaintances. They make the characters wander through the worlds of reality and fantasy, sometimes both at the same time. A dark comedy that tells nine related stories in which the fates of the characters intertwine.

"The Loops of Emptiness" - it's a visual poem, where words are translated into cinematographic language. This short fiction film invites into forgotten rooms of subconsciousness. Every person strays into those rooms in their dreams or memories. Sometimes we can't unlock the most secret territories of ourselves with any kind of keys, but other times doors just opens up.