Radvila Darius, son of Vytautas Karolis Kaupinis

A musical journey through Lithuania’s television archives

Book event

WITH LIVE MUSIC BY OUTSTANDING MUSICIANS AND AN INGENIOUS COLLAGE FROM TELEVISION ARCHIVES, THE AUDIENCE IS TAKEN BACK TO EVENTS AT THE TIME WHEN LITHUANIA BROKE AWAY FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.

Karolis Kaupinis has used a selection of images from the Lithuanian television archives to take the audience back to 1989 and 1990, a key moment when Lithuania was freed from Soviet control and could claim independence, as can be seen in a wealth of records from the time: excerpts from TV broadcasts, anonymous eye-witness reports, stormy discussions, emotional responses of the crowds, a report in a school of music, young girls parading as models in front of their despondent mothers, as society at large was shifting into another world that is gradually discovered through an installation conveying plenty of charm and wit. A sound track performed by four jazz musicians provides a counterpoint, while the audience observes the early stages, caught between stifling tradition and aspirations to cast off the past and move towards a new era and a better future.

Hugues Le Tanneur

Duration

01:00

Price

From €8 to €15

Schedules

17:00, 19:00

Place

TDV-Sarah Bernhardt - La Coupole

Language

In Lithuanian
Overtitled in French

Original work by the team Karolis Kaupinis, Birutė Kapustinskaitė, Arnas Mikalkėnas, Kristupas Gikas, Kazimieras Jušinskas, Simonas Kaupinis, Goda Palekaitė, Julius Kuršis, Ervinas Gresevičius, Ignas Juzokas