Gėdos akys

Synopsis

A boiled egg on the plate. An ordinary word. A familiar sound. When a Nurse forces 14-year-old Eyeless to eat at a hospital for troubled teenagers, unfinished memories begin to interrupt reality. The past repeatedly hijacks the present.

Statement

I didn’t enter a hospital for troubled teenagers to research a film. I simply wanted to volunteer. I watched children hesitate before drawing a single line, convinced they could not create anything. I heard adults speak about them in front of them, as if the children were deaf. Nothing dramatic. Small, ordinary remarks. Judgements about what children can or cannot do. Repeated often enough to become part of how a child begins to describe themselves. I asked myself: at what point does someone else’s voice become our own? EYES OF SHAME grew from that question. The story begins in a hospital, but it is not about a hospital.

Credits

Director

Tomas Tamošaitis

Production

Afterimage (Tomas Tamošaitis, Laura Almantaitė), Insomniak (Emmanuel Rouglan), Minya Film and Animation (Miljana Dragičević)

Running Time

40'

Language

English

Country

Lithuania, France, Croatia

Main Cast

Upė Tamošauskaitė, Lou Howard, Ginevra Minelli, Nelė Savičenko, Kamilė Petruškevičiūtė, Séverine Batier, Maxence Cazorla, Matas Sigliukas, Tom Vega

Screenplay

Tomas Tamošaitis, Emmanuel Rouglan

Editor

Loïc Allart, Tomas Tamošaitis, Matej Breščaković (VFX)

Music

Jonas Jurkūnas

Sound

Vygintas Kisevičius

Art directors

Tomas Tamošaitis, Skirmanta Jakaitė

Lead developer

Loïc Allart

Developers

Matej Breščaković, Florian Viseux

Lead designer

Skirmanta Jakaitė

Designers

Arminas Didžiokas, Linas Spurga Jr

Artist

Skirmanta Jakaitė

Technical team

Nenad Mitrović, Eduardo Gallardo Lara, Alen Vuković, Joana Correia, Dario Dominik Bagarić, Matías Celis Romero, Ivan Mendoza