Memories in the Clouds visualizes Kristina (Žičkutė) Laine’s childhood memories in Soviet Lithuania. The experimental film brings forth Kristina’s worldview as a child, during the vast socio-political changes of the collapsing Soviet Union. Memories blend with moods in a painterly experimental film. Kristina’s Lithuanian voiceover narrates the journey. Past meets the present, documenting the ephemeral definition of real and memory, and how our memories change each time they are accessed. Our memories can differ vastly from actual events and thus, are always subject to interpretation.
Memories are visualized as unstable, fragile, and capricious. Clouds come and go, but the magnificent sky remains overseeing the horizon. The film is based on a combination of timelapse videos of a summer sky, shot in Lithuania and 3D animation. The film also utilizes modern AI algorithms as animators, to visualize the narrated features into the moving clouds.
Kristina Laine (Žičkutė) and Albert Laine are animation artists who work in the fields of animation, VR and media art. They both studied animation in Turku arts Academy and both hold Master’s degrees from Aalto University. Their works have been featured at international media art and film festivals and art exhibitions such as AnimaDoc, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki Festival, MIAF, Tampere Film Festival and in television.
Mediabox is Forum Box gallery’s space dedicated to media art. The program is created in collaboration with AV-arkki.
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