- Occupation
Director
- Country
Lithuania
Zickyte Giedre
How We Played the Revolution
The story of the film begins in 1984, the very beginning of perestroika in USSR, when a group of architects decided to organize a one night music band as a New Year’s party joke in Kaunas, Lithuania. The joke proved to be so good that rumors about the new exciting rock band Antis spread from lips to lips. Imposing make-up and props, stylized show, and lyrics were creating pervasive caricature of the Soviet propaganda and perfectly discrediting the absurd of the Soviet reality. Soon their intellectual clownery grew into the Rock Marches - massive events involving thousands of people - that transformed into the big meetings for Lithuanian Independence later named the Singing Revolution.
Giedrė Žickytė has studied journalism, film and TV directing and completed her studies with Master degree in visual arts at Vilnius Art Academy. She works in film, TV and commercial fields from 2003.
The Rebels / TV series / 2010 , 6 x ’35 /in co-prod. with Lithuanian TV channel “Lietuvos rytas TV”
Baras / TV documentary film / 2009, ’50 min, HDV / in co-production with LRT, Lithuania National TV. Channel / Award for the best TV film of the year at Lithuanian National Film Awards “Silver Crane’09”
Teacher and what about you? / 2009, creative documentary, ’35 / Lithaunia
Europe / 2006 / short documentary film / ‘8 min, / Lithuania
Born Innocent / 2005, short fiction film, ’10 min / Lithuania
The Role / 2004, short fiction film, ’20 min / Lithuania