Koridorius

A black-and-white film without words and without a relevant plot, and yet it is not boring. The static camera, at a slow calming pace, transitions from large shots of bleak Lithuanian reality to the details of human faces. This is one of those films where it is futile and mainly unnecessary to try to reconstruct any point or relationships between the characters. Here, it is about the power of the image itself and what lies behind it. It is about the metaphysical power of the image, with the same urgency that black and white photographs have - their freezing of time throws us directly in front of the weight of the objects they depict. Just like them, this film is also inadequate because, just like silent photographs, a silent film is even less capable of capturing reality with its 4:3 rectangular eye compared to movies where the characters speak because, unlike animals, humans have not only a voice but also speech. (2014.09.12)