The documentary ANIMUS ANIMALIS immerses us into the heart of animality and addresses our relationship with the living. In a world at the crossroads of reality and artifice, a taxidermist, a livestock farmer and a museum employee bring together life and death. A first film, carved with a scalpel, as precise as a biology manual and as fascinating as Baudelaire’s “Carcass”.
STARRING
WRITER
Aistė Žegulytė
Titas Laucius
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Vytautas Katkus LAC
MUSIC
Gediminas Jakubka
Mindaugas Urbaitis
FILM EDITING
Mikas Žukauskas
PRODUCTION
Meno avilys
DISTRIBUTION
Meno avilys
Aistė Žegulytė
Aistė Žegulytė was born in 1986 in Panevėžys, Lithuania, where she attended high school and Fine Arts School. From 2006 – 2009 she studied Photographic Technology at the Vilnius University of Applied Engineering Sciences, after which she started Television and Cinema Directing at the Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy, where she graduated in 2013. Her graduation project was the documentary film “Identities”. She has made several fictional and documentary short films, “Animus Animalis” is her first feature-length documentary.
FILMOGRAPHY
2010 : VITA (short documentary)
2011 : NORDIC ELEGEY (short)
2012 : ŠKAC (short)
2012 : NIKODEMAS (short)
2013 : TAPATUMAI (short documentary)