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Before Now

The film is sincere, simple, but at the same time existential thoughts causing story. This is mother’s and her four-year-old daughter’s dialogue. The film shows their journey, which goal is to see The Cosmos, place from where the girl came into her mother’s abdomen.

Information

Year
2017
Genre
Documentary
Duration
7'
Production country
Lithuania
Dialogues
Lithuanian

Team

Producer
Jūratė Šepetytė
Script
Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė
Cinematography
Jurgis Eidikis
Editing
Jurgis Eidikis
Sound designer
Tomas Stonys
Composer
Tomas Stonys
Cast
Karilė Bernotaitė, Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė
Production company
Audiovisual Arts Industry Incubator (AMII)

Contacts

Karolis Bernotas (Kino namai TAURAPILIS)

Director's biography

Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė

Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė (b. 1987) is an audiovisual artist and experimental documentary filmmaker, who is currently based in Utena (Lithuania). In 2020, she graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with an MA in Film Directing. Currently, she is a practice-based PhD candidate and her field of interest lies in personal experimental travelogue filmmaking. The artist chooses to present abstract ideas through a subjective and personal way of storytelling. Her work often explores the subject of the erosion of memory and time, and intertwines the reality around us with the abstract and with the forms of experimental art. The filmmaker has directed five short films, which have screened at numerous festivals, such as 25 FPS Festival, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Experimental Film Festival Process, Festival Obskura – Analog film festival, and others.

Filmography: 
Gile’s journey / Gilės kelionė (2016, short animation)
Before now / Tada (2017, short documentary)
Sofia’s dream / Sofijos sapnas (2019, short documentary)
The Bearers of Memories / Prisiminimų nešėjai (2020, short experimental)
Impetus / Impetus (2022, short experimental)
Blue Mountain. White Cloud / Mėlynas kalnas. Baltas debesis (2024, short experimental)