An Evening with Julius Ziz
Monday, March 23, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
Includes the following films:
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The Wolf
2008. Lithuania. Directed by Julius Ziz. With August Varkalis. Based on a pair of novels by Jonas Mekas. In Lithuanian; English subtitles. 20 min.
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The Window
1999. USA. Directed by Julius Ziz. 19 min.
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And the Pig Was Born
2001. USA. Directed by Julius Ziz. Made from footage found in the basement of Anthology Film Archives. 23 min.
Julius Ziz (Lithuanian, b. 1970) liberates cinema from its theatrical underpinnings, elevating it with a poetic vision at once singular and beautiful. Stories spin off like whirling flanges of plot from conventional narrative, and the films rely on rhythm to suggest what the mind knows in a preconscious manner. It is this "capturing" of thought before its articulation that makes a Ziz experience resonant and valuable. Ziz graduated from the Film Academy in Tbilisi before moving to New York, where he worked with Jonas Mekas at the Anthology Film Archives. In addition to making films, Ziz writes for the theater.
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