Documentary film “Black” presents the work of a charismatic personality of the Lithuanian art scene, the only Lithuanian architect-visionary V. Ozarinskas (Ozė) to a wider audience.
Ozė liked to experiment in his work, so the purpose of our creative team was not only to reveal the worldview of a talented artist, who had died prematurely, but also to create such a short film that would be a separate work of visual arts and cinematography.
This objective will be achieved by integrating the genres of artistic biography, science documentary, and science fiction, making use of nonchonological plot, paying special attention to visual solutions; sparse usage of verbality, and experimenting with sound.
Using archival footage and newly filmed scenes, we will sketch an unidolized portrait of the original artist and his era.
In the film we will raise an unexpected hypothesis – maybe Ozė’s inconvenient “black” creative period, that confused the audience so much, was not only an expression of the artist’s disappointment with himself, others, and the world.
Visionaries are often ahead of their time. Contemporary science states that 70% of the Universe is composed of dark matter, the existence of which can be calculated, but the scientists do not yet have the instruments and insights, in which physical or chemical terms it could be defined. Perhaps Ozė’s black creations are a personal research into dark matter, filling the artist’s universe?
Ozė’s daughter Elena, seeking to understand her father and his work better.
The end often becomes a beginning of new things. And the color black might turn out to be not only that. It is scary to gaze into one’s own depths, as well as into the expanse of space. It is scary to find oneself at the verge of knowing, possibility, life. But if humanity wants to survive and develop, it has no other way.