Meet the Team
Director
Is an international visual artist based in Ireland, who explores and interprets local community, historical and cultural contexts by engaging multiple audiences and participants through social engaged collaborations. Her main interest are in ideas of the strange, intangible and interpreting "otherness". Aideen has presented her projects in multiple museums and galleries world wide and has received numerous awards for her work. She teaches at LIT in Ireland, Penn State Uni, NYU and VCU in the US. She is a member of Aosdána and The Royal Hibernian Academy.
DOP
Video, animation and sound artist who studied Animation at Middlesex University London. He has worked with various projects, including "Lost And Found Kaunas" (short film about Kaunas modernist architecture, 2015), "Artificial" (short film by D. Petkūnaitė, 2020) and in collaboration with Kaunas 2022, Kaunas Artists’ House, Ministry of Transport and Communications and etc.
Editor & Colourist
Internationally working cinematographer and documentarist, who has graduated from the Brera Academy in Milan, Italy. Visually, interested in the experimental use of the digital and analogue cameras, taking the best from both, old and new technologies. As an author, focused on a search of her own identity as well as on women's perspective in a wider sense. Her shorts have been presented and recognized in Poland and Italy. Presently, affiliated with the Royal Holloway University of London.
Set designer
Set designer who works with various video projects. Paulina holds a BA degree in cinema and literature and MA degree in set design. She is an artist, who hosts her own exhibitions and creative workshops for children and adults.
Ugnė Marija Andrijauskaitė
Line producer
Coordinator of Modernism for the future program at Kaunas 2022. She holds a PhD of History and specialises on interwar period and social/cultural history of Lithuania. For many years Ugnė worked with Kaunas International Film Festival and is translating films, scripts and other film material for Lithuanian Film Centre, Art Box production house and other private contractors.
Dalia Narkevičiūtė
Educator
Art and architecture historian, heritage and non-formal education specialist, third generation Kaunasian who is concerned about the vanishing city of the past.
Ieva Raubytė
Composer
Ieva Raubyte is studying music composition at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. She is known for her fluency at playing national Lithuanian instruments and drums, and piano .Raubyte studied composition at Jazz Academy in Kaunas and now experiments in sound design, electroacoustics, experimental and improvisational aspects of music.
Lina Semaskaite
Sound Director
The Sound Director is the award winning Sound Designer, Composer and Sound Director Lina Semaskaite. Her Film credits include Porno Melodrama, When Children Come Home, Through The Fields, Tricolour.
Dominyka Adomaitytė
Foley Artist
Dominyka lives in Prague where she’s a sound design student at FAMU and Foley artist at Soundsquare studio. She’s
working on live action, documentaries and animated projects. Nature plays a big part as an inspiration, helping Dominyka to create sound design rich in texture. Since she came to sound design from a music background, you can often hear a human voice used as another instrument in her projects.
Arūnas Periokas
Composer
Arūnas has experience in the field of architecture and played various music genres as a drummer in number of different bands. Currently he is focusing on individual electroacoustic projects, strongly infused by characteristic rhythms, catchy melodies, experimental soundscapes, collaborating with local musicians in creative happenings, making music for contemporary dance and performative pieces, movies and animation, experimental DIY theater performance, special sound effects and curious about the world of field recordings. As well as making artistic, experimental music videos.
Patris Židelevičius
Composer
Patris works in the contexts of performative, sound, conceptual and visual art. He creates installations, experimental, electro-acoustic music, sound art, collects field-recordings, makes real-time compositions, soundtracks, conceptual sound structures for movement.
Patris combines cello melodies, analogue synthesizer passages, digital sounds, and field-recordings into music that has features of ambient, drone, musique concrète, instrumental improvisation, experimental and other contemporary music styles.
Matas Jančauskas
Sound Effects
Matas Jančauskas. Sound engineer, lecturer, musician. Studied Music Technologies at Kaunas University of Technology. Lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of arts. Working as live and broadcast sound engineer, sound system designer, recording engineer and sound designer. Music enthusiast. Born, raised and living in Kaunas.
Žilvinas Rinkšelis
Coordinator
Coordinator of the Modernism for the Future programme of Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022 and co-creator and administrator of website modernizmasateiciai.lt He is a historian, heritage specialist and leader of voluntary social initiative of city exploration Ekskursas. His main fields of interest are the history of Kaunas and its architectural legacy.
Viltė Migonytė Petrulienė
Curator
Architectural historian Dr. Viltė Migonytė-Petrulienė is curator of regional partnership as well as programme Modernism for the future of Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022. She defended dissertation Lithuanian Resort Architecture Between WWI and WWII (1918–1940) as a Phenomenon of Modernizing Society. Currently is involved as a curator and co-curator in different local and European projects related to riverside and cultural tourism such as the “STAR Cities” Interreg Europe project.
Emilė Kertinauskaitė
Make-up / costumes
Emilė was born an artist, just like her mother. Since her childhood she was interested in drawing and cosplaying. At first it was just a simple hobby, but Kaunas 2022 gave her a chance to test her make up and costume making skills in the production of the film. Emilė has spend her summers in Kaunas, so she is very happy to be a part of European Capital of Culture program.
OUR TEAM OF COLLABORATORS
Story writers
creative writing workshop with Sandra Bernotaite:
Sandra Bernotaitė
Ineta Šuopytė
Kipras Marcalis
Marius Stašauskas
Rasa Petronienė
Roberta Šukauskaitė
Indrė Aleksandravičiūtė
Jolita Večkienė
Neringa Daniulaitienė
Dalia Narkevičiūtė
Audrė Gruodytė
Tomas Gudžiūnas
Makers of stop motion animation:
participats of creative workshops at MTKC:
Simona Jakaitė
Laura Petraitytė
Deimantė Sidaraitė
Vincas Skripka
Monika Lekeckaitė
Gintarė Kalvinskaitė
Evita Ramanauskaitė
Saulė Petrauskaitė
Mindaugas Šalučka
Gabrielė
Arnas Margelis
Modestas Dambrauskas
Karolis Strašinskas
Saulė Konsevičiūtė
Lukrecija Davydovaitė
Eglė Davydovaitė
Dalia Narkevičiūtė
Saulė Matiukaitė
Domantas Terleckis
Saulė Šukaitytė
Gertrūda Zigelytė
Kamilė Salmanavičiūtė
Simona Šidlauskaitė
Erika Matulionytė
Kristijanas Gropas
Smiltė Satkūnaitė
Jogilė Konsevičiūtė
Julija Abrasonytė
Armantė Narbutaitė
Adrija Liachavičiūtė
Gabrielė Balaševičiūtė
Kristijonas Genys
Liutauras Ūsas
Luknė Gudaitė
Monika Lekeckaitė
Viltė Šilkaitytė
Laimis Šilkaitis
Ieva Raitelaitytė
Liudmila Kazlauskienė
Gerda Jarukaitė
Darisa Ignatjeva
Beatričė Stanaitytė
Aušra Lavickienė
Antanas Raitelaitis
Goda Birgiolaitė
Austėja Ūdraitė
Urtė Urmanavičiūtė
Skaistė Gražulevičiūtė
Žemyna Paines
Gerda Jarukaitė
Ema Narkūnaitė
Kipras Steponavičius
Vėtris Butkus
Austėja Koncevičiūtė
Viktorija Liaškinaitė
Simonas Butkus
Emilė Ivanauskaitė
Povilas Mikalauskas
Auksė Armoškaitė
Gintarė Kraulytė
Music:
Ieva Raubytė
Participants of creative workshop at LITUANICON
Brigita Gaitanži
Kostas Gaitanži
Elbė Gaitanži
Justinas Stonkus
Justė Latauskienė
Motiejus Lazauskas
Jokūbas Misiūnas ir kiti
Makers and bakers of modernist cakes
Workshop at KMPPMC:
Rasa Virginija Venterienė
Giedrė Polikevičienė
Irena Žiužnienė
Kristina Krikštolaitienė
Janina Narbutienė
Gabrielė Juraitytė
Erika Žukaitė
Emilija Kazakevičiūtė
Karigailė Klimaitė
Lina Danilevičiūtė
Sigita Kontrimienė
Agnė Lukošiūnaitė
Monika Gudavičiūtė
Gabrielė Grabauskaitė
Elizabet Matz
Erika Bagdonienė
Evelina Masedonskaitė
Laimutė Ona Račaitė
Milda Sadauskaitė
Rugilė Petronytė
Thanks:
Marius Vizbaras (photo, management)
Rimvydas Ardickas (photo, video)
Modernist interior props makers
Creative workshops at MTKC:
Viltė Adomaitytė
Vida Slivka
Žemyna Paines
Darija Ignacijavija
Nerijus Babrauskas
Patrikas Šabasevičius
Brigita Karaliūtė
Emilė Masytė
Gintarė Anužė
Nikita Panov
Emilė Medzevičiūtė
Ugnė Žukauskaitė
Creative workshops with pre-schoolers:
Andrėja Dulaitytė
Justė Irtmonaitė
Matas Jurkevičius
Adrijus Jurgelėnas
Gabrielius Jasiukevičius
Gabrielius Pileičikas
Kristupas Rojus Ramanauskas
Jonas Spūdys
Adas Beniulis
Joris Petrolis
Perla Andriukaitytė
Emilis Juška
Palina Laurynaitytė
Liepa Lukoševičiūtė
Austėja Makauskaitė
Matas Miliauskas
Deimantė Paltanavičiūtė
Milana Pažėraitė
Auksė Smolskaitė
Vainius Staugaitis
Deina Tautkutė
Mėja Tylaitė
Meida Valaitytė
Karolis Vilimaitis
Tadas Vilimaitis.
Set Crew
Sugihara house
Actress (Sugihara): Natsuho Matsumoto
Makeup: Emilė Kertinauskaitė
Set assistants: Laura Banisevičiūtė,
Jūratė Jastromskaitė, Gabrielė Oržekauskaitė
Cake scene:
Actor (Matre’d): Justinas Stonkus
Camera assistant: Rimvydas Ardickas
Thanks: Marius Vizbaras
Galaunės house
Actress (Galaunienė): Julija Mintautė
Actress (Maid): Eglė Valadkevičiūtė,
Set assistants: Kristina Gudzinskaitė,
Julija Tuleikytė
Žilvinas Rinkšelis
Production assistant: Justina Bogužaitė
Backstage photo: Martynas Plepys
Thanks for props: Indrė Aleksandravičiūtė,
Aistė Ptašinskaitė,
Kauno Nacionalinis Dramos Teatras
Make up: Emilė Kertinauskaitė
Bank / restaurant scene
Actor (Matre’d): Justinas Stonkus
Actor (Doorman): Žilvinas Rinkšelis
Actress (Restaurant guest): Ugnė Marija Andrijauskaitė
Restaurant guests: Indrė Aleksandravičiūtė
Marius Stašauskas
Nojus Gipas
Austėja Balutytė,
Justina Bogužaitė
Emilė Kertinauskaitė
Thanks for props: Bernelių užeiga,
Kauno Nacionalinis Dramos Teatras,
Food: Wolt
Backstage photo: Martynas Plepys
Water station scene
Actress (Little Girl): Ema Kazulytė
Actress (Kaunas Beast): Raminta Milašiūtė
Actress (Kaunas Princess): Rugilė Aukštakalnytė
Assistants: Modesta Krugždaitė, Danielius Kalasauskas
Beast costume: Rasa Dautartaitė, Emilė Kertinauskaitė
Thanks for props: Aistė Ptašinskaitė
Food: Wolt
Devil in the bank
Actor (Devil): Marius Pinigis
Make up: Emilė Kertinauskaitė
Costume: Emilė Kertinauskaitė, Solveiga Vasiliauskaitė
Hell scene
Actor (Devil): Marius Pinigis
Actor (Devil): Arūnas Mozūraitis
Actor (Devil): Adrian Carlo Bibiano
Make up: Emilė Kertinauskaitė
Costumes: Emilė Kertinauskaitė, Solveiga Vasiliauskaitė
Assistance: Emilija Filipenkovaitė
Thanks for props: Vida Bliumkienė
Food: Wolt
Painter A. Žmuidzinavičius scene
Actor (A. Žmuidzinavičius): Edgaras Žemaitis
Actor (queen guest): Tomas Alenčikas aka Alen Chicco
Actress (Veronika Šleivytė): Emilija Filipenkovaitė
Assistant: Danielius Kalasauskas
Costumes: Solveiga Vasiliauskaitė, Emilė Kertinauskaitė
Thanks for props: Kaunas City Chamber Theatre,
Kaunas National Drama Theatre
Anatomy museum
Actress (A body with no body): Clara Giambino
Extras (tour people): Aistė Radzevičė
Aušra Banaitė, Eglė Pietarytė
Remigija Lumbytė, Gabrielė Litvinskaitė
Brigita Kazlauskaitė, Giedrius Banaitis
Assistant: Danielius Kalasauskas
Costumes: Solveiga Vasiliauskaitė
Thanks for props: Eglė Kazulienė, LSMU
Props: Margarita Kalinka
Church basketball scene
Actor (basketball player): Mindaugas Šatkus
Actor (basketball player): Matas Toliušis
Actress (church lady): Rūta Krasnickaitė
Costumes: Solveiga Vasiliauskaitė
Thanks: Žydrūnas Pavinkšnis of Evangelic Reformed community
Thanks for props: Gediminas Banaitis - Skrandis
Holocaust scene
Actors (family): Aušra Banaitė,
Giedrius Banaitis, Liepa Banaitė,
Lina Banaitė, Eglė Pietarytė,
Joris Šalvaitis, Mykolas Šalvaitis
Gaudenis Šatkus
Actors (solders): Renata Zambrickaitė
Justinas Tamošaitis, Ričardas Chomskis
Thanks: Vida Bliumkienė and P.A.R.A.K.A.S,
Laurynas Mikšys and Aistė Ptašinskaitė for the props
Costumes: Emilė Kertinauskaitė
Chemistry lab
Actress (lab technician): Ema Senkuvienė
Thanks for props: Kaunas Unviersity of Technology
Lady at the window
Actress: Algė Dereškevičiūtė
Wooden doors and windows
Thanks: Povilas Konkulevičius
Artist's studio
Thanks: Blank Page Studio
Thanks for props: Aistė Ptašinskaitė,
Sandra Karnilavičiūtė
Modernist kites
Designer: Vaida Dosinienė
Kite maker: Giedrė Aleksandravičiūtė
Kite flyers: Jurga-Jomantė Varškevičiūtė, Vincas-Goštautas Varškevičius
Assistance: Modesta Krugždaitė, Danielius Kalasauskas
Funicular scene
Actor (George Mačiūnas): Deividas Breivė
Acress (Pandemic ghost): Solveiga Vasiliauskaitė
Actress (Funicular monster): Maja Kriaučiūnaitė
Extras (Funicular passengers): Miglė Kriuglaitė,
Rasa Jarašiūnaitė, Vykintas Gervė,
Teklė Baroti, Jūratė Kelpšaitė
Costumes: Solveiga Vasiliauskaitė
Fire station
Actor (Firefighter): Marius Eidrigevičius
Actor (Firefighter): Hubert Fabien Lagin
Petras Rimša Scene
Actress (Petras Rimša): Akvilė Koženiauskaitė
Costume: Emilė Kertinauskaitė, Paulina Ružauskaitė
Post office
Actress (Ghost): Solveiga Vasiliauskaitė
Costume: Emilė Kertinauskaitė, Solveiga Vasiliauskaitė
Thanks for props: Viltė Migonytė-Petrulienė,
Gediminas Banaitis - Skrandis
Bank scene
Extras (musicians): Viltė Šilkaitytė,
Laimis Šilkaitis, Monika Pociūtė,
Indrė Litvinienė, Marija Čirkova,
Ieva Raubytė
Design: Rolands Zilvinskis
Web: Aideen Barry, Monika Lekeckaitė
Production: Kaunas 2022 / Modernism for the Future
Project supervisor: Viltė Migonytė-Petrulienė
Interns (line production assistance): Justina Bogužaitė,
Modesta Krugždaitė, Danielius Kalasauskas.