This year’s festival theme Porosity and the film programmes invites us to explore how we define ourselves and the creation of inner and outer worlds, and discusses the boundaries between them. Videograms 2021 moves from Kaunas to Vilnius, with programming events scattered across November, December and January, different cities and virtual spaces. The first event is the exhibition “Porosity” (curated by Monika Lipšic and Viktorija Šiaulytė) at the cultural venue Sodas2123, open to the public from 18 November to 4 December. The exhibition focuses on the relationship between the living environment/architecture and the inner world of a human/inhabitant.

Later, during thematic screenings at the Skalvija Cinema Center on 8-12 December, the programme What We Left Unfinished (curated by Karolis Žukas) will present archival films by Courtney Stephens, Tomasz Wolski, Mariam Ghani and others, exploring private and public memories. On 15-19 December, a three-part video programme (curated by Gerda Paliušytė) presented in the same cinema space will commemorate the philosophy, work and trajectories of thought of Lauren Berlant (1957-2021). In this programme, the gaze turns to the ability to feel, observe, learn, love, fantasise and desire in a complex world of overlapping artificial realities and regimes – a world that not only limits or disappoints, but also empowers. The programme will showcase a wide range of work by artists and filmmakers representing various generations and a broad geographical spectrum. Featured artists include Myanmar artist Moe Satt, British artist Josiane M.H. Pozi, Indian documentary filmmaker Malati Rao and others. The viewers of the Coming of Age screening will also have the possibility to join the presentation of a new film by artist Daiva Tubutytė, with the participation of the artist herself.