In this documentary, artist Victor Paukstelis reveals his workshops, paintings, and thoughts—the meaning of art, the truthfulness in our time.
The film features music performed by the artist himself.
It is an opportunity to look at creativity from a different perspective. The film is based on the exhibition "Victor Paukstelis. Chromatics. Painting (2020-2023".
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Documentary | 7'40 | Lithuania | 2023
Director: Aleksas Matvejevas
Production: "Vilniaus medija“
The film was directed by TV and documentary film director, screenwriter, and editing director Aleksas Matvejevas, who lives in Vilnius. He graduated from Kyiv university (Journalism, 1994) and continued his studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre's (LMTA) Faculty of Theater and Cinema (1999-2000), where he received a master's degree in screenwriting and directing. Even though he had many teachers, he's the most grateful to Anatoliy Pohrebnyi and Georgij Počepcov (Ukraine) and Henrikas Šablevičius and Arūnas Žebriūnas (Lithuania). Aleksas Matvejevas created such documentaries like "Pasitikiu Tavimi" ("I Trust You"), "Audrys," "Tarp Nemuno ir Dniepro" ("Between Nemunas and Dnieper"), "Ugnis ir Paguoda" ("Fire and Comfort"), a documentary TV series "Kelias į namus" ("The Road to Home"), TV series "Perspektyva" ("The Perspective"), and many more. His film "Pasitikiu Tavimi" was nominated at the "Mirabile Dictu" festival in Rome, a religious film festival in Poland, and also won the "Silver Crane" audience prize in Lithuania, while his TV series "Perspektyva" received the "Artists' Award" last year. As a director, A. Matvejevas seeks to understand a person and reveal his unique personality traits. According to him, a good film must have empathy, irony, humanism, mystery, and lasting value.
