Contemporary Past is a short programme of study which brings together students and teaching staff from higher education institutions of Lithuania and other countries. The programme is divided into different projects. Although each of them is focusing on different medium, the cross-disciplinary aspect and the theme of contemporary forms of the past representations remain the core of each project. All the projects of the programme encompass courses designed for the programme participants as well as public events.
This year’s project Contemporary Past: Moving Images as a Fluid Memory is a continuity of the project Contemporary Past: New Art Forms in Memorial Building (2009), which was dedicated to commemorational projects realized in Europe and elsewhere, especially focusing on the contemporary solutions for suggestive memorials. Although the project Contemporary past: Moving Images as a Fluid Memory continues to deal with the issues of memories and past representations, its main medium is moving images including a vast variety of expressions (fiction film, experimental film, documentary, video installation, etc.). The main purpose of the project is to open discussions about moving images as a memorial and to explore its power for sculpting in time (Andrej Tarkovsky).