Kristijonas Dirsė is a film director and audiovisual artist based in Lithuania. His work is based on the interaction of sound and image – he explores how music, performance and environment can be transformed into a visual language. His activities are diverse: he creates video projections for theatre, experimental music and fashion films and audiovisual installations. Whether collaborating with the contemporary music ensemble Synaesthesis, developing digital platforms for performances or capturing psychogeographic portraits of the city – he focuses on creating immersive, atmospheric experiences. Kristijonas graduated from Brunel University in London with a degree in music and film, and received a master’s degree in film directing from Université Paris 8. He returned to Vilnius in 2021. Since then, he has contributed to more than ten theatre productions, winning the Fortūna Award and a Silver Crane nomination for his short film Reminiscence.
The idea of the work:
“Flaneur” is an audiovisual installation that explores the human relationship with the city through psychogeographic experience. It invites us to perceive the city not as a structure, but as a state – experienced through intuition, chance and inner impulses. The work was created in collaboration with “Synaesthesis”, curated by Marta Finkelštein, and features music by three young generation composers. The dialogue between sound and image becomes the main tool for creating a subjective experience of the city. The installation is based on the figure of the flâneur – an observer of the city who moves without a clear goal, following his intuition. Such a state allows us to escape from the usual perception of the city and experience it as a fragmented, changing, sensory landscape.
Flaneur offers an experience of the city as an ever-changing, personal, and ultimately indefinable state.
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