Aistė Stonytė

“The Mammoth Hunt” is a story about a film reel that for many years has been thought to be lost. On the reel, under conspiracy conditions, an abolished anti-Soviet theatre performance had been documented nearly 50 years ago – a play that served as a cross-section of the period revealing the universal subjects of courage, conformation, loyalty and betrayal.

Talented and charismatic, Lithuanian photographer Virgilijus Šonta was brutally murdered, the perpetrator never found, and the case closed. Thirty years later, we embark on a detective’s journey, delving into the enigmatic life and tragic double existence encoded in his photographs.