About the Project:

The Land of Heavens is a short documentary presenting the relationship between man and nature. The film was my passion project which I completed in 2020.

The forest is sacred. It inspired a retired man to come back to his youth and start expressing himself in every way he can think of – by singing, playing self-made instruments, sculpting and painting. The amateur artist combines Lithuanian pagan and folk art symbolic. Stasys placed his mysterious creatures all across the forest, as a contribution to nature and its sanctity.

The documentary was filmed over three days in Stasys' homeland - Vyžuonos (a village in Lithuania). To capture the footage, I used my DSLR camera and a lightweight Rode microphone. Subsequently, I edited the film using Adobe Premiere Pro. The film's narrative was shaped in the editing process, where I spent most of the production time.