https://ruta.cargo.site ruta kiaupaite Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:33:55 +0000 https://ruta.cargo.site en https://ruta.cargo.site/ruta-kiaupaite Sat, 06 Feb 2021 16:22:38 +0000 ruta kiaupaite https://ruta.cargo.site/ruta-kiaupaite ruta kiaupaite about works feed producer visual anthropologist, documentary filmmaker https://ruta.cargo.site/about Sat, 06 Feb 2021 16:22:38 +0000 ruta kiaupaite https://ruta.cargo.site/about aboutvisual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker&nbsp; https://ruta.cargo.site/works Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:33:55 +0000 ruta kiaupaite https://ruta.cargo.site/works works <img width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec1dc906785c0f9cd915bac106f5af896eaecb8fb35ad2c449808ba029644445/ezgif.com-gif-maker-1.gif" data-mid="163282482" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/ec1dc906785c0f9cd915bac106f5af896eaecb8fb35ad2c449808ba029644445/ezgif.com-gif-maker-1.gif" />Theories of Care (80min) documentary in development Director Supported by Creative Europe MEDIA<img width="1354" height="908" width_o="1354" height_o="908" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b981b29a7974ccc51d464d51ebb4465b3bf3e353b5bc05ef4004d53d3957211/Screenshot-2022-12-23-at-00.02.54.png" data-mid="163279741" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b981b29a7974ccc51d464d51ebb4465b3bf3e353b5bc05ef4004d53d3957211/Screenshot-2022-12-23-at-00.02.54.png" />The Pickers (80min) documentary in developmentThe Pickers is a lively and immersive story of the ritual of picking, through which the shortcomings of the global economy, the pursuit of eternal progress and the relationship between a man and nature are revealed. Director Supported by Lithuanian Film Center <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbfdd2f45649a8a4abf6b82e47ecf5ce28e6d294d5e5e0446483123867040108/Screenshot-2023-07-13-at-13.54.36.png" data-mid="246794261" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbfdd2f45649a8a4abf6b82e47ecf5ce28e6d294d5e5e0446483123867040108/Screenshot-2023-07-13-at-13.54.36.png" />Swans Back (20min) 2025 dir. Marija Nemcenko, experimental documentary in developmentExhibited at David Dale (2023), Glasgow; Centralla (2024/2025) Birmingham. Vilnius Documentary Film Festival 2025 Producer <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/573c1f26e213cb5b499752d64fa2bc70c79daabbc0b04ff2e4aeca2d17480aa0/img_2426.jpeg" data-mid="171632155" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/573c1f26e213cb5b499752d64fa2bc70c79daabbc0b04ff2e4aeca2d17480aa0/img_2426.jpeg" /> Love Chrestomathy (30min) dance-video installation, completedThe dance performance-installation "Love chrestomathy” is a performance recorded in a video format, in which Erika Vizbaraitė, the winner of the Golden Cross of the Stage, choreographer and dancer embodies a Creature who seeks to understand what love is.Researcher, anthropologistExhibited at MO Museum (2023), part of NEW BALTIC DANCE FESTIVAL <img width="756" height="425" width_o="756" height_o="425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9e53060c53cce4270ed9d368a6669dd0cc6ba81c795c8a1d7a21e08c585e1d0/664079-493153-756x425.jpeg" data-mid="146597705" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/756/i/c9e53060c53cce4270ed9d368a6669dd0cc6ba81c795c8a1d7a21e08c585e1d0/664079-493153-756x425.jpeg" /> Seniors of New York A short documentary featuring world famous abstract painter Kes Zapkus, a translator of Jonas Mekas - Vyt Bakaitis and psychologist and artist Nijole Kudirka.Director, producer, camera Shown on Lituanian National Broadcaster&nbsp;<img width="756" height="425" width_o="756" height_o="425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa93adee761167f36e0c3bb78d53901cb0fc95ed302663bc536fd5a27e8f7275/660419-783680-756x425.jpeg" data-mid="146777443" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/756/i/fa93adee761167f36e0c3bb78d53901cb0fc95ed302663bc536fd5a27e8f7275/660419-783680-756x425.jpeg" />Intersex A short documentary made for Lithuanian National Broadcaster about Intersex&nbsp;- an umbrella term that describes bodies that fall outside the strict male/female binary.Director, producer, cameraShown on Lituanian National Broadcaster <img width="1287" height="724" width_o="1287" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/756a38669439611848e0bff69c468d7e7b52e52d01355db458d21b30a593a05c/74278707_378842662832838_4726675195023065088_n.jpeg" data-mid="146509546" border="0" data-scale="84" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/756a38669439611848e0bff69c468d7e7b52e52d01355db458d21b30a593a05c/74278707_378842662832838_4726675195023065088_n.jpeg" /> Working as a drag queen in your fifties 19’A short documentary created for the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT Producer, researcher, cameraShown on Lituanian National Broadcaster <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3befb0c0d1115400676d932259aaabc7b8a015e817e7d23479e5da28b591a81/97831421_485812225469214_5783669013095645184_n.jpeg" data-mid="146509446" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3befb0c0d1115400676d932259aaabc7b8a015e817e7d23479e5da28b591a81/97831421_485812225469214_5783669013095645184_n.jpeg" /> Spalvos (eng. Colours) is a social documentary series exploring the lives of vibrant individuals across the world. Created for the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT, each episode seeks to uncover unique and untold stories that lack representation in Lithuanian media. Our first episode is dedicated to gay dads and&nbsp; features BBC journalist Dr David Gregory Kumar and his daughter Marnie, as well as Matthias Nijs and Janno Talu with their daughter Isabella.Producer, researcher, cameraShown on Lituanian National Broadcaster <img width="756" height="425" width_o="756" height_o="425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e920a33fd7a800d1c5573ac27628449cb5d98aa9563e117131b5a7551dc221a/563637-542044-756x425.jpeg" data-mid="146510519" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/756/i/6e920a33fd7a800d1c5573ac27628449cb5d98aa9563e117131b5a7551dc221a/563637-542044-756x425.jpeg" />Polyamory A short documentary for Lithuanian National Broadcaster LRT on the life of four polyamorous individuals and the ethics of consensual non-monogamy. Researcher, cameraShown on Lituanian National Broadcaster https://ruta.cargo.site/feed Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:27:31 +0000 ruta kiaupaite https://ruta.cargo.site/feed feed&nbsp; July 25, 2025 <img width="1588" height="992" width_o="1588" height_o="992" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80e97db35762f4b503fff850dc3d86339dee3d4b60f255d75e9f7262cbbf3bf5/Screenshot-2023-07-25-at-22.15.41.png" data-mid="186072338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80e97db35762f4b503fff850dc3d86339dee3d4b60f255d75e9f7262cbbf3bf5/Screenshot-2023-07-25-at-22.15.41.png" /> April 27, 2025 <img width="999" height="596" width_o="999" height_o="596" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfc9d293c846bc2ab21aca01c6d70a0b2bba8240bc6385d8fecf91de3ef69805/screen-shot-2020-09-11-at-102249-pm.png" data-mid="152343713" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/999/i/cfc9d293c846bc2ab21aca01c6d70a0b2bba8240bc6385d8fecf91de3ef69805/screen-shot-2020-09-11-at-102249-pm.png" /> Still from an unknown film. June 25, 2025 <img width="376" height="250" width_o="376" height_o="250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24bc7c3d8de499646122dd8064fe48b94b45900aeff4d7641e47ac77c87b407e/18.jpeg" data-mid="146491325" border="0" data-scale="41" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/376/i/24bc7c3d8de499646122dd8064fe48b94b45900aeff4d7641e47ac77c87b407e/18.jpeg" /> Movies are made out of darkness as well as light; it is the surpassingly brief intervals of darkness between each luminous still image that make it possible to assemble the many images into one moving picture. Without that darkness, there would only be a blur. Which is to say that a full-length movie consists of half an hour or an hour of pure darkness that goes unseen. If you could add up all the darkness, you would find the audience in the theater gazing together at a deep imaginative night. It is the terra incognita of film, the dark continent on every map. In a similar way, a runner's every step is a leap, so that for a moment he or she is entirely off the ground. For those brief instants, shadows no longer spill out from their feet, like leaks, but hover below them like doubles, as they do with birds, whose shadows crawl below them, caressing the surface of the earth, growing and shrinking as their makers move nearer or farther from that surface. For my friends who run long distances, these tiny fragments of levitation add up to something considerable; by their own power they hover above the earth for many minutes, perhaps some significant portion of an hour or perhaps far more for the hundred-mile races. We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured. Heartbreak is a little like falling in love, in the way it charges everything with a kind of incandescence, as though the beloved has stepped away and your gaze now rests with all the same intensity on all the items of the view that close-up person blocked. June 11, 2025 <img width="1340" height="934" width_o="1340" height_o="934" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0397bbdf8db2f68ccf05dfaa3fceb61ffbb39fed773c504a497216380c32a67a/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-19.56.56.png" data-mid="146492074" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0397bbdf8db2f68ccf05dfaa3fceb61ffbb39fed773c504a497216380c32a67a/Screenshot-2022-06-27-at-19.56.56.png" />Opening scene “Streetwise” documentary (1984) April 27, 2025 A few years ago I heard Jerome Kagan, a distinguished emeritus professor of child psychology at Harvard, say to the Dalai Lama that for every act of cruelty in this world there are hundreds of small acts of kindness and connection. His conclusion: "To be benevolent rather than malevolent is probably a true feature of our species." Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives. Numerous studies of disaster response around the globe have shown that social support is the most powerful protection against becoming overwhelmed by stress and trauma. Social support is not the same as merely being in the presence of others. The critical issue is reciprocity: being truly heard and seen by the people around us, feeling that we are held in someone else's mind and heart. For our physiology to calm down, heal, and grow we need a visceral feeling of safety. No doctor can write a prescription for friendship and love: These are complex and hard-earned capacities.