Vytautas Katkus

Vytautas Katkus

Профиль

Vytautas Katkus

Фильмы

Slow
Camera Operator
Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
How to be a Human Being
Director of Photography
During a conference in a hotel, a woman in her mid-thirties meets a man that she used to date in her teenage years. She accuses him of ‘date-rape’ back then. She works at the conference and has to help him prepare for the presentation. They start to talk. It turns out that things were different than she thought for many years.
Tell Me You Love Me
Cinematography
A love story about divorce.
Cherries
A hot summer day. The cherry-tree branches are full of ripe berries, swaying from the wind and weight. A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden. The father is not in a rush, as he now wants to spend more time with his son, leaving the cherries in the background. Working together and staying silent, they both realize how much time they’ve lost during those 30 years. The cherries bring the two men back to their first memories and let them experience them longer, as if to start all over again.
Cherries
Writer
A hot summer day. The cherry-tree branches are full of ripe berries, swaying from the wind and weight. A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden. The father is not in a rush, as he now wants to spend more time with his son, leaving the cherries in the background. Working together and staying silent, they both realize how much time they’ve lost during those 30 years. The cherries bring the two men back to their first memories and let them experience them longer, as if to start all over again.
Cherries
Director
A hot summer day. The cherry-tree branches are full of ripe berries, swaying from the wind and weight. A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden. The father is not in a rush, as he now wants to spend more time with his son, leaving the cherries in the background. Working together and staying silent, they both realize how much time they’ve lost during those 30 years. The cherries bring the two men back to their first memories and let them experience them longer, as if to start all over again.
Techno, Mama
Cinematography
Nikita loves to listen to techno music and dreams to go to Berlin and visit the famous club “Berghain”. His mother Irena doesn’t know about his son’s dreams and soon enough their mutual expectations will clash.
Parking Lot
Cinematography
A short film "Parking Lot" is examining the theme of "emotional hygiene" through the perspective of friendship.
Спальный район
Screenplay
Двое друзей бродят по району советской застройки на окраине Вильнюса. Скоро здесь построят новый аэропорт, и места, где они выросли, больше не станет. Задумчивое постдраматическое кино, снятое на пленку режиссером и оператором Витаутасом Каткусом, — исследование психогеографии постсоветской Литвы.
Спальный район
Director
Двое друзей бродят по району советской застройки на окраине Вильнюса. Скоро здесь построят новый аэропорт, и места, где они выросли, больше не станет. Задумчивое постдраматическое кино, снятое на пленку режиссером и оператором Витаутасом Каткусом, — исследование психогеографии постсоветской Литвы.
Садовое товарищество
Director of Photography
Совместный выезд повзрослевшего сына и стареющих родителей за город должен укрепить их отношения, но укреплять уже нечего. История о распаде семейных связей в живописной (и моментально узнаваемой) обстановке постсоветского дачного поселка исполнена Витаутасом Каткусом с иронией и редким сочувствием к героям, у которых ничего в жизни не получается.
Садовое товарищество
Writer
Совместный выезд повзрослевшего сына и стареющих родителей за город должен укрепить их отношения, но укреплять уже нечего. История о распаде семейных связей в живописной (и моментально узнаваемой) обстановке постсоветского дачного поселка исполнена Витаутасом Каткусом с иронией и редким сочувствием к героям, у которых ничего в жизни не получается.
Садовое товарищество
Director
Совместный выезд повзрослевшего сына и стареющих родителей за город должен укрепить их отношения, но укреплять уже нечего. История о распаде семейных связей в живописной (и моментально узнаваемой) обстановке постсоветского дачного поселка исполнена Витаутасом Каткусом с иронией и редким сочувствием к героям, у которых ничего в жизни не получается.
Пережить лето
Director of Photography
Индре, начинающая и амбициозная психолог, соглашается отвезти в клинику у моря двух пациентов. Один из них — Поулюс, который болен биполярным расстройством, а вторая — Юсте, закрытая в себе. Эта летняя поездка становится первым шагом к их выздоровлению.
Animus Animalis (A Story about People, Animals and Things)
Cinematography
Human beings are the kings of all animals, at least if you ask us humans. Our vanity is given something to mirror itself in, but does not escape without a scratch or two in this documentary, which observes a taxidermist, a deer farmer and a museum curator at work. Three jobs that have one thing in common: turning animals into aesthetic objects, alive as well as dead. When the work is done properly, it is impossible to tell the difference. Dead pets are mummified. At the zoological museum, the animals' glassy eyes stare back at us from the showcases. Even a plastic alligator has its natural place in the human master plan.
12 Chairs
Cinematography
Former KGB agent finds out that his mother in law has hidden her treasures in one of chairs. Fast after he starts the search of diamonds and meets an aggressive modern man who helps him in his endeavors all over the place in nowadays Lithuania. Two very different men are united in their mutual desire to get rich.
The Camel
Camera Operator
A camel dies in the local zoo. Paulius and Indre – two caretakers discover it and try to dispose of the dead animal. But it turns out to be a much harder task than they imagined.
Bridges
Assistant Camera
Two young people, old friends Olivija and Matas, go on a kayak trip in late autumn. Neither is aware of each other's plans and everything works out just fine until one of them says I Love You. As the kayak seems to be as fragile as their friendship they now have to face wild nature and their choices.
Iglu
Writer
Greta, a young woman, returns to Lithuania from abroad to find that her mother turned her room into a hair salon. While thinking of what to do next, Greta sees a TV episode on igloos and decides that the best course of action is to build one outside her mother’s apartment building and live in it. Greta’s igloo becomes the main issue of the neighbourhood – not because it causes them any inconvenience, but simply because it annoys them.
Iglu
Director
Greta, a young woman, returns to Lithuania from abroad to find that her mother turned her room into a hair salon. While thinking of what to do next, Greta sees a TV episode on igloos and decides that the best course of action is to build one outside her mother’s apartment building and live in it. Greta’s igloo becomes the main issue of the neighbourhood – not because it causes them any inconvenience, but simply because it annoys them.
After Rave
Cinematography
Milda is planning to spend a night with her friends, but the news of her grampa's death slowly sets in.
Книжный контрабандист
Camera Technician
Литва в составе Российской империи. Литовская письменность запрещена, но репрессии получают неожиданный отклик: в Литве появляются тайные литовские школы, и контрабандисты литовской книги начинают распространение литовской печати. Хотя большая часть общества по-прежнему относится к этому равнодушно, ряды контрабандистов растут. Жизнь литовской деревни 19-го века, юмор, приключения, риск и трудный выбор- это только небольшая часть того, с чем столкнулся повеса Юргис, познакомившись с контрабандистом книг Мажвидасом..