Autorius: Evaldas

The creation of Evaldas Jansas “To Be on Show” („Būti išstatytam“) can be hardly applied any specific genre characteristics. Here one may find documental shots of Vilnius city detailed plan presented to the society, and day-to-day life of psycho-neurological pension home inhabitants with the intertwined “faked-up documentary” i.e. – the acted scenes and computer-edited effects. The entire plot of a tragic and auto-ironic fiction is accompanied by the narration of a stuttering hero, how he finds himself in a lunatic asylum.

It is the third work by Evaldas Jansas of “Anthropology” film series (previous ones: “Anthropology of Fake Documentation: Violence”, 2004; and “Anthropology of Abuse”, 2004). The narrative of the film is based on a very ‘personal story’ of the man (it could be fiction or not), and his reflection to the advertisement mediated society. The video work is constructed of documentary and animated images, whish stimulate a comic, ironic and farce like perception. The story by the artist is told in a particularly sincere manner, which reminds the strategy of suggestibility used in advertisement. It makes a contrast with objective images (inversion of advertisement strategies) and knocks out of experiencing the usual satisfaction. The question is: is it a contemporary capitalism which laughs at me, or it is me, making parody of it? (D.Tumpytė)

Author explores the notion of film-making as shooting by deliberately choosing to film people who are not willing to be filmed. The film is a fast montage of opinions, which, very literally, provokes the author’s comparing with the abuser. The next step he does – E.Jansas leaves the camera behind and takes a gun.

The author documents performers experiences on video performance in „Lynch law”.

These are the scenes from the routine life of junkies. The author without any scruple, with the cool glance of his camera snap-shoots pricking with syringe, collecting of poppy „milk” in the gardens, and primitive production of hand-made drug. The film is followed by an off-slip naive story of a young girl, who left her school and had no courage to speak into the camera. She tells the story about the adventures of junkies life and misfortunes of her friends. The story ends with her dream to buy a wide-screen TV.

The video work „Personal code” documents the artist’s visits to the bureaucratic institutions trying to acquire the official permit for a child to travel abroad, to write an official apology for committed criminal offence and getting the warning for „inappropriate behavior” while on probation. It is filmed using stable camera, capturing fragmented images and conversations with the employees of the institutions as well as formal procedures.
„The associability of this artist, publicly acknowledged in the video „Personal code”is real and inevitable, therefore – completely organic and fundamental message of this work is critical and ironic; it refers to the absurdity of bureaucracy and the consideration of a person just as a set of formal numbers filling the system” (Renata Dubinskaite „Evaldas Jansas – the innocent hero of video works”).