Anastasia Sosunova

Lithuanian-American Kostas and Russian-Lithuanian Dima reconnect in New York decades after serving in the Soviet army together. They fell in love back in the 80s, and Dima joined Kostas in moving from Russia to Lithuania. But as Lithuania gained Independence in the 90s, Kostas left to study in New York, leaving Dima behind. Kostas, now an established author, has published a book based on their separation. Upon reading it, Dima pays a visit, eager to correct a few facts.

From the back seat of a car, we hear a conversation exchanged in whispers. A woodcarver and interviewer are discussing Lithuanian folk traditions during the Soviet era and Lithuania's struggle for independence. Folk art belongs not only to the past but is also part of the present. During the pandemic, parks and forests became places of assembly and venues for new forms of folk art.

As an esoteric, Soviet-era self-improvement practice, coding involves following instructions from a mysterious advisor – mind like a computer, programmable.

In a perpetual loop of representation of the self-designed DIY religion, a thermal imaging video showing close ups of a face, a pole dancer.

You are in a gargantuan depot. There is a tool you need. You find it easily based on the directions above the shelves. As soon as you grab it you feel it needs another object to be complete. But it doesn’t stop with the discovery of the second thing. Before you know it, you already have a whole trolley filled with useful things. Yet how useful? And for what? You need to make them make sense.