Floor scrapers

‘The Floor Scrapers’ is a short dance piece about three friends – two guys and one girl, who are moving in to live together. While scraping the floor, guys find they have feelings for each other, but they are trying to hide them because of a fear to be misunderstood.

Film is inspired by Gustave Calliboite’s painting ‘The Floor Scrapers’.

Information

Year

2014

Genre

Experimental

Duration

Production country

Lithuania

Dialogues

No dialogues

Team

Director

Marija Kavtaradzė Vytautas Katkus

Producer

Klementina Remeikaitė

Script

Vytautas Katkus, Marija Kavtaradzė

Cinematography

Vytautas Katkus

Editing

Vytautas Katkus

Sound designer

Ignas Mateika

Cast

Greta Petrovskytė, Gediminas Rimeika, Lukas Malinauskas

Production company

Afterschool production, LMTA

Contacts

Klementina Remeikaitė

k.remeikaite@gmail.com

Director's biography

Marija Kavtaradzė

Marija Kavtaradze was born in 1991. She started studying Film directing in Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, TV and Film faculty, in 2010. In 2014 she graduated her studies and continued Master degree studies in the same Academy. Her graduate work short film “I‘m twenty something” was awarded for the best student work by Lithuanian Film Academy association ‘Silver Crane 2015’ awards.

Filmography

Before Falling / Paskutinis žmogus, su kuriuo aš kalbėjau (2010, short fiction)

Washed Fairytale / Išskalbta pasaka (2010, short fiction)

Normal people don’t explode themselves / Normalūs žmonės nesisprogdina (2013, short fiction)

Youngblood / Pasakyk, kad neskaudės (2013, short fiction)

The Accident / Avarija (2013, feature fiction)

Floor scrapers / Parketo skūtėjai (2014, short experimental)

I’m Twenty Something / Man dvim keli (2014, short fiction)

Igloo / Iglu (2015, short fiction)

Summer Survivors / Išgyventi vasarą (2018, feature fiction)

Vytautas Katkus

Vytautas Katkus (b. 1991) graduated with a BA in Cinematography from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. He works as a cinematographer for films and video art projects. Katkus won the Best Young Cinematographer Award from the Lithuanian Association of Cinematographers twice and has been a member of it since 2016. His solo-debut short film “Community Gardens” was selected for the 58th Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival. Vytautas’ newest short film “Places” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020.

Filmography

Floor scrapers / Parketo skutėjai (2014, short experimental / fiction)

Igloo / Iglu (2015, short fiction)

Community Gardens / Kolektyviniai sodai (2019, short fiction)

Places / Miegamasis rajonas (2020, short fiction)

Cherries / Uogos (2022, short fiction)