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An Evening with Deimantas Narkevičius

14.11’22
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The Head © LUX

This year, the LUCA research seminar Minima Docta, led by Wim Lambrecht and Jeroen Laureyns, focuses on possible contestations of statues and flags in public space.

On this evening, which came about together with Art Cinema OFFoff, we turn our attention to three films by Lithuanian filmmaker Deimantas Narkevičius – The Role of a Lifetime, Once in the XX Century, The Head and July 20.2015 – which examine the profound ways in which the post-Soviet era left its mark on the collective memory.

In a first film, Peter Watkins’ docu-fiction Punishment Park (1971), it was the sadistically forced worship of the American flag that was the seminar’s focus of attention (24÷10). A second talk at BE-Part in Kortrijk will focus on the problematic legacy of colonial statues in Belgian public space with Jan Kempenaers’ series of photographs as a point of departure (21÷11).

Introduction: Wim Lambrecht (Head Visual Arts LUCA School of Arts Ghent)

In collaboration with the research seminar Minima Docta

Narkevicius The Head 1

The Head © LUX

Deimantas Narkevicius

The Role of a Lifetime

LT • 2003 • 17' • colour & b&w • digital

Once in the XX Century

LT • 2004 • 8' • colour • digital

The Head

LT • 2007 • 12' • colour & b&w • digital