Cousin
Kasyte
Documentary Film, 2007
Cousin
Kasyte is a diaristic journey into the Lithuanian
heartland in search of roots, history, and family.
Stashu Kybartas always wondered about his past, his family.
The nuns who raised him didn't know, his relatives didn't
want to discuss it; everyone in his childhood feared to look
back at that old country.
It wasn't until the early 90's and the fall of the Soviet
Union, when Kybartas was allowed to cross borders and make
forays into unmapped farmlands and disappeared villages.
Somewhere there, he finds Kasyte in a veritable anthill
of missing cousins. The dynamic between the two reveals a
culture that built itself around the earth, animals and crops
- the inherited sum of some ancient mode of survival.
Cousin Kasyte was shot on location in Lithuania
by Stashu Kybartas and edited and co-produced by Yoni Goldstein
at Standing Point Films.
| Credits |
Direction/
Production/ Direction of Photography - Stashu
Kybartas
Co-Production/
Editing/ Script Consulting - Yoni Goldstein
Score
- Shaun Williams
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| Format |
SD,
Hi-8, archival footage
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