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Das interdisziplinäre Festival „Polis Adriatic Europe“ präsentiert unter dem Titel „Post-industrial City“ eine Arbeit von dem litauischen Videokünstler Rimas Sakalauskas „Synchronisation“ (2009). Der achtminutige Film wurde im 2010 als der beste studentische Film des Jahres in Litauen anerkannt. Am 27 Mai, um 19.30 Uhr ist die Arbeit im Pula (KC Karlo Rojc) zu sehen.

Rimas Sakalauskas (b.1985) is youngest generation video artist from Lithuania. From early childhood he tend to visual arts and music and thereby was studying in National M. K. Ciurlionis School Of Art. In 2009 he received BA in audiovisual arts, department of photography and media art, Vilnius Academy of Arts. His diploma being awarded with special prize. From 1997 he successfully started to participate in various artistic competitions, shows, exhibitions, festivals and other events. Among most important of his achievements is Baltic Award for the Best Work in the Field of Visual Art in International video and contemporary art festival "Waterpieces 2009", held in Riga, Latvia. His bigest success as visual artist is first prize in International Art Competition "Sound and Vision" which took place in 1997  in Helsinki, Finland. Till now he is an active video artist.

Title: "SYNCHRONISATION" / Genre : Experimental animation / Duration:8'05" / Year:2009

Like in a child’s dream, buildings from the Soviet era start leading their own life in a separate reality. Synchronisation has been compiled from free associations and small impossibilities. The slow tempo and spatial soundtrack give the film a compelling atmosphere and inner logic. Buildings from the Soviet era make the scenes monumental and suggestive

Pretty Vacant examines the potential of spaces and the possibilities of generating contents. The decay of infrastructure, resources, technologies, the numerous abandoned buildings announce the defeat of social values and leave a wide open emptiness in space and spirit. The story of social development after the zest of industrial production and optimism is a story of change among production relations, conditions of production, information society, growth of service trades, but it is as well a projection of negative utopia which raises the question of empty spaces, vacant, abandoned industrial plants as unused space resources. This exhibition, whose aim is to define the time in which we’re living, represents the modification of political and social cartography after the breakdown of ideologies while setting up the connection with the past through pictures as part of the imaginary archive. It embraces different artistic positions with similar worldview and common detection of spaces with works that go from architectural research, photography, film, video, documentary film to painting.