Blue Mountain. White Cloud
Mėlynas kalnas. Baltas debesisThere is a story circulating among Zen Buddhist monks about two types of monks. First ones are settled and spend all their life in a monastery, they are identified with the blue mountains, while others are like white clouds – constantly traveling from one place to another. In the film, the filmmaker and Won Bo Sunim, a Lithuanian woman who decided to go to South Korea more than 20 years ago and become a Zen monk, embark on a journey in the mountains of South Korea.
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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.
