Where do we go now?

Spongė Lab is an experimental film laboratory initiated by artists Kipras Dubauskas, Vytautas Juozėnas, Bon Alog, Eglė Razumaitė, and Miki Ambrózy. The laboratory was established in 2019 at the SODAS 2123 cultural complex. Spongė continues the tradition of the earlier collective Tree Lab | Super 8 Picnic in a Hand. The idea of the laboratory is to bring together artists and filmmakers who create independent films, moving images, expanded cinema, and cine-performances in the context of contemporary art.

We engage in interdisciplinary, experimental film practices: independent film creation, installations, educational activities, workshops, readings, curation of films, videos, moving images, audiovisual works, and more. All are united by an interest in analog imagery as an artistic practice. Currently, Spongė Lab host visual artists, researchers, photographers, enthusiasts, and filmmakers. Sponge is a slowly evolving community with people who engage and temporarily reside to use the space for their specific creative project experiments.

We continue to ask ourselves: what lies ahead for alternative moving image cultures? This programme delves into the contemplative pace of the Lithuanian experimental film scene, presenting works that navigate fragmented aspects of memory, historical reflection, and the fluid boundaries between linear and non-linear storytelling.

Spanning archival assemblages, speculative narratives, and essayistic approaches, the selected films reflect on how experimental techniques push the limits of independent filmmaking. As film artists and collective, we also question our trajectory: where do we go from here?

Egyboy “Slow Club“ (2008-2011, 4′)
Vytautas Kazimieras Juozenas “Chronos ABC” (2015, 5’30)
Miki Ambrózy “Granitepoints” (2023, 19’)
Martyna Ratnik „May You Live in Interesting Times“ (2022, 5’)
Egle Razumaite “The Fall” (2023, 22’)
Kipras Dubauskas „36 chambers“ (2019, 3’33)
Yanis Proshkinas “Side effect: you may forget how to swallow” (2024, 2’40)

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Curated by Bon Alog
Special thanks to Lithuanian National Archive
A cooperation between LT.art and filmkoop wien.