10 films / 9 screenplays (1st film: 1986/latest film: 2010)
INSPIRED BY : Andrei Tarkovsky, Katerina Golubeva, Aleksendr Sokurov, Tarr Béla, Léos Carax?
C.C.C. films (strict model in red) : Indigène d'Eurasie (2010), Seven Invisible Men (2005); Children Lose Nothing (2004); Freedom (2000); A Casa (1997); Few of Us (1996); Koridorius (1994); Trys dienos (1991); In Memory of the Day Passed By (1990); Tofolaria (1986)
INFLUENCE ON : Steve McQueen, Audrius Stonys?
Quick scroll : BIBLIOGRAPHY | BOOK | ONLINE ARTICLES | INTERVIEW | WEBSITES | DOCUMENTARY
Indigène d'Eurasie / Eastern Drift (2010) 111' - IMDb Berlinale 2010
- Berlinale 2010, section Forum | press kit PDF [GERMAN] [ENGLISH]
- "Le gros plan par Sharunas Bartas" interview by Thomas Schwoerer (Arte, Feb 2010) video 3'28" [FRENCH] [GERMAN]
- "Indigène d'Eurasie : la course éperdue d'un trafiquant pour s'extraire de la mafia" par: Isabelle Regnier (Le Monde, 7 Dec 2010) [FRENCH]
- "Le contemplatif cinéaste lituanien s'essaie avec brio au film noir" par: S. Kaganski (Inrockuptibles, 7 Dec 2010) [FRENCH]
- "La ligne zone de Sharunas Bartas" par: Philippe Azoury (Libération, 8 dec 2010) [FRENCH]
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Seven Invisible Men (2005) IMDb
- "Seven invisible men - Sharunas Bartas. Splendeurs et décadence chez les moujiks" By: Guillaume Bozonnet (Peau Neuve, ?) [FRENCH]
- "Vestiges et vertiges des Soviets" By: Olivier Seguret (Libération, 19 May 2005) [FRENCH]
- Review By: Amélie Dubois (Les Inrockuptibles, #524, 1st Jan 2005) [FRENCH]
- Review By: ? (Cahiers, #562, Dec 2005) [FRENCH]
- "Met de mensheid is het sowieso over"By: Dana Linssen (Filmkrant, #283, Dec 2006) [DUTCH]
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- Review By: Serge Kaganski (Les Inrockuptibles, #269, 30 Nov 1999) [FRENCH]
- "Freedom" By: Yann Gonzales (Chronicart, 2000) [FRENCH]
- "Les prisonniers du désert, 'Freedom' de Sharunas Bartas : un grand film d'aventures entre Ford et Corto Maltese" By: Serge Kaganski (Les Inrockuptibles, #269, 18/12/2000, p. 42-43) [FRENCH]
- "L'errance désespéré d'un trio dans le désert" By: Jean-Claude Loiseau (Télérama, #2657, 13 Dec 2000, p.50) [FRENCH]
- "L'écho du monde" By: Hélène Raymond (Fluctuat, Dec 2000) [FRENCH]
- "Hoop sterft het laatst" By: Dana Linssen (Filmkrant, #226, Oct 2001) [DUTCH]
- Review By: Florian Abèle (Objectif-cinéma) [FRENCH]
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- Review By: Serge Kaganski & F. Bonn (Les Inrockuptibles, #120, 30 Nov 1996) [FRENCH]
- "AbracadaBartas" By: Didier Péron (Libération, 16 mai 1997) [FRENCH]
- "La cinémathèque de Babel. A propos de The House de Sharunas Bartas" By: Jérôme Lauté (revue Eclipses, 1998) [FRENCH]
- "Verdwaalde passanten in een verveloos huis" By: Petra van der Ree (Filmkrant, #196, Jan 1999) [DUTCH]
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- Press kit, excerpt from Le Monde (JM Frodon, 9 Sept 1996), Positif #425/426 (Noël Herpe, july/Aug 1996), Cahiers #505 (Thierry Lounas, Sept 1996), Le Courrier Art et Essai #51 (15 Sept 1996) PDF [FRENCH]
- Review By: Vincent Ostria (Les Inrockuptibles, 18 Sept 1996) [FRENCH]
- "Résistance de la beauté et beauté de la résistance : a propos de Few of us de Sharunas Bartas" By: Jérôme Lauté (revue Eclipses, #19-20, 1st Jan 1997, p. 25-34) [FRENCH]
- Review By: acquarello (Strictly Film School, 11 Jan 2005)
- "Zij die dichtbij lijken zijn het verst" By: Petra van der Ree (Filmkrant, #181, Sept 1997) [DUTCH]
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- "De quoi sommes-nous la somme?" By: Leos Carax (Festival de Tours, Derives.tv, 1995) [FRENCH] on Corridor & Three Days
- "Les terres inconnues de Sharunas Bartas" By: Jean Roy (L'Humanité, 25 Oct 1995) [FRENCH] on Corridor & Three Days
- Review By: Serge Kaganski (Les Inrockuptibles, #28, 30 Nov 1994) [FRENCH] on Corridor & Three Days
- "Empathie" By: Jérôme Lauté (Revue Eclipses n° 28, 1999, pp 34-37, 34 p.) [FRENCH]
- "Une intériorité dévorante. Le Corridor de Sharunas Bartas visité par la peinture de Vilhelm Hammershøi" By: Jérôme Lauté (revue Eclipses, #31, 2000) [FRENCH]
- Review By: acquarello (Strictly Film School, 13 Jan 2005)
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- "De quoi sommes-nous la somme?" By: Leos Carax (Festival de Tours, Derives.tv, 1995) [FRENCH] on Corridor & Three Days
- "Les terres inconnues de Sharunas Bartas" By: Jean Roy (L'Humanité, 25 Oct 1995) [FRENCH] on Corridor & Three Days
- Review By: Serge Kaganski (Les Inrockuptibles, #28, 30 Nov 1994) [FRENCH] on Corridor & Three Days
- "Figures, anti-figures : Trys dienos de Sharunas Bartas" By: Bruno Girard (Lignes de fuite, ?) [FRENCH] PDF
- « Sharunas Bartas: Trajectoires de la rencontre dans Trys Dienos », Journée doctorale en Langues, Lettres et Arts : Autour du cinéma. Réflexions et études de cas (7/8), Université de Provence, Juin 2008. QT Video [FRENCH]
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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Serge Kaganski, "La cité de la joie", Les Inrockuptibles, septembre-octobre 1995, pp 40-41. [FRENCH]
- Jean Roy, "Les terres inconnues de Sharunas Bartas", L'Humanité, 25 octobre 1995. [FRENCH]
- Jean-Michel Frodon, Le Monde, 19 octobre 1995 [FRENCH]
- Philippe Roger, revue Etudes, Tome 385, #5, Nov 1996, pages 543-544. [FRENCH]
- Jean-Michel Frodon, "Le splendide et silencieux mystère des Sayanes", Le Monde, 19 septembre 1996. [FRENCH]
- Laurent Rigoulet, "Grand Angle sur un monde fermé" et Elisabeth Lebovici, "Un chevalier fier comme un Bartas", Libération, 16 Mai 1996. [FRENCH]
- Thierry Lounas, "Le peuple cinéma", Cahiers du Cinéma n°505, 1996, pages 75-76. [FRENCH]
- Olivier Séguret, "Sharunas Bartas, le temps des Tofolars", Libération, 18 septembre 1996. [FRENCH]
- Sarunas Bartas: Un cinema di sguardi su un mondo di incertezze a cura di Tiziana Finzi, Trieste (Italie), 1998 [ITALIAN]
- Vincent Deville, "Sharunas Bartas, un cinéaste en quête de présent perdu", thesis directed by Nicole Brenez, Univ. Paris 1- Sorbonne, UFR d'Histoire de l'art, juin 1999, 103 pp. [FRENCH]
- Jacques Morice, "Le Chaman de Vilnius", Télérama, 13 Décembre 2000, pages 44-46. [FRENCH]
- Laura Sinagra, "Sharunas Bartas", Exile Cinema (ed. Michael Atkinson), New York: SUNY UP, 2008, pp 87-92.
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BOOK on Sharunas BARTAS
- Tony Pipolo, Six films by Sarunas Bartas, Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2003, 12p
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- "De quoi sommes-nous la somme?" By: Leos Carax (Festival de Tours, Derives.tv, 1995) [FRENCH] on Corridor & Three Days
- "Balte-là" By: Serge Kaganski (Les Inrockuptibles, 18-24 septembre 1996, pp 22-24) [FRENCH]
- "Planète Bartas" By: Serge Kaganski (Les Inrockuptibles, 1st Oct 1997) [FRENCH]
- "Are you sitting comfortably?" By: Jonathan Romney (The Guardian, 7 Oct 2000)
- "Being There" By: Michael Atkinson (The Village Voice, 28 Jan 2003)
- "Baltic State. Sarunas Bartas at the Harvard Film Archive" By: Peter Keough (The Phoenix, 20 March 2003) Program
- "Bartas, l'irréductible" By: Isabelle Régnier (Le Monde, supplément spécial Cannes, 15 Mai 2003, p. 4-5) PDF [FRENCH]
- "Cinema of Damnation: Negative Capabilities in Contemporary Central and Eastern European Film" By: Tony McKibbin (Senses of Cinema, December 2004)
- "Towards the aesthetics of slow" By: Matthew Flanagan (16:9, Nov 2008)
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- video interview (ARTE, 17 Sept 1996) [ENGLISH] [FRENCH] on Few of Us
- interview de Sharunas Bartas (Téléréma, 18 Sept 1996) [FRENCH]
- "Sharunas Bartas. La inutilidad de la palabra" By: Enrique Aguilar (Contrapicado.net, Mar-Apr 2006) [SPANISH]
- "Sharunas Bartas over Seven invisible men. Met de mensheid is het sowieso over" interview By: Dana Linssen (Filmkrant, #283, Dec 2006) [DUTCH] on Seven Invisible Men
- "Le gros plan par Sharunas Bartas" interview by Thomas Schwoerer (Arte, 13 Feb 2010) video 3'28" [FRENCH] [GERMAN] on Eastern Drift
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TEXT BY Sharunas BARTAS
- "Lithuania" By: Sharunas BARTAS [LITHUANIAN] [FRENCH]
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- IMDb
- Lithuanian Film Center [LITHUANIAN] [ENGLISH]
- Wikipedia [FRENCH] [ENGLISH] [ITALIAN]
- Les Films du Paradoxe
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- An army of one (2010/Guillaume Coudray/France) 55' [FRENCH] PDF / website / video sample
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Please complete, correct when needed. This is an ongoing resource page to be updated.
12 comments:
Great stuff, Harry! The only substantial piece on Bartas that I've come across in English is Laura Sinagra's excellent overview essay in Exile Cinema (ed. Michael Atkinson, SUNY UP, 2008, pp 87-92). I've added it to the list above.
I like Bartas' films very much, particularly Three Days, The Corridor, Few of Us & Freedom. He's more of a narrative minimalist than a durational/long take "contemplative" filmmaker, but is certainly an integral part of the tradition...
Thanks for the help Matthew.
I've seen only Few of Us and 7 Invisible Men and he uses quite long takes (especially in the former). Though he's not the kind who uses up the full reel of filmstock like Tarr does.
I was wondering what he was up too lately. I'm glad to find out he's got a porject under production (after an earlier one aborted). So I'm looking forward to the release of his new film.
Looking through my notes, the number of shots in 4 of the features are as follows:
Three Days: 219 (ASL 20.9)
The Corridor: 177 (ASL 27.9)
Few of Us: 148 (ASL 38.5 [I think - not sure whether my source is PAL or not])
Freedom: 169 (ASL 32.9)
Haven't done ASLs for the other 3 films yet. I remember there being little discernable pattern to the juxtaposition of "short" & long takes in the first 2 features, but Few of Us and Freedom (as you say) do consist of more uniformly lengthier takes. I think he's more concerned with stillness and distance (long shots of figures & landscapes vs. close-ups of the face) than duration, though. There's a shot in Freedom of the three protagonists trudging across sand into the distance that makes me think of the Magi's (notorious) 9-minute trek in Birdsong, but it's probably only held for a quarter of the time!
I don't think Seven Invisible Men was particularly well received on release, so perhaps that explains the recent inactivity. I hope his new project is going well!
Just remembered Tony McKibbin's relevant article from Senses of Cinema - will link above...
thanks for the information.
French director Guillaume Coudray has made a fascinating documentary film about his experience with Sarunas Bartas, it was premiered in Vilnius in March and got excellent critics, lets hope it will be screened in many other festivals.
http://www.kinopavasaris.lt/en/gallery?akimirkos_id=66&galleryType=kp#../Files/akimirkos_img/436b4e439556e4e566d8f7b45a0644c6.jpg
Also: in the Lithuanian press, it was announced that Guillaume Coudray has made three additional short films about Bartas, to complement the DVD publication of three of the best films of Bartas, to be released soon in France and Lithuania (Few of Us, The House, Seven Invisible Men). So it might mean that the film of Coudray will also be released on DVD, lets hope so.
Thanks for the info, nicoremo! The doc sounds v. interesting, and I'm pleased to hear of more Bartas emerging on DVD. Do you know who is releasing them?
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Hi Matthew and Harry, the features of Bartas and the documentary by Coudray will be released by French company Films du Paradoxe. http://www.dvdparadoxe.com/bartas.html
I'm not sure if it will be available in English, though, Paradoxe's site doesnt say.
Thanks, nicoremo. Lack of English subs won't really be a problem for these, and I hope the transfer of Few of Us (in particular) will improve upon what is already circulating.
I just got these 4 discs from Films du Paradoxe. The documentary has English subs but the 3 films don't. This is no problem for The House and Few of Us but Seven Invisible Men seems to have a lot more dialog. I've only skimmed through them so far but they all look great.
Thanks for the heads up, jacklint. Could you e-mail me (via profile)? I'd love to get my hands on copies - perhaps we could work out an exchange...
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