"Men of Central Europe" is a project by Aida Čeponytė and Valdas Ozarinskas, focusing on the everyday style of Lithuanian men. One part of the project is a video documentary in which the artists' friends and colleagues talk about their favourite clothes and combinations hanging in their wardrobes, and comment on their attitudes towards fashion and self-expression. The work reveals different personalities, ranging from shy to imposing. This documentary is an intimate and uncompromising document of the time, with interviews between the filmmakers and the characters combined with a gentle self-irony directed at the self and the phenomenon of masculinity, its local, sometimes comic manifestations, and the limited cultural and financial possibilities of the time. On the other hand, underneath the veil of humour, there is a genuine desire to look good, a need for individuality, an enjoyment of the freedom to make decisions and a sense of being part of the Western world. The presented video material was edited together with the co-author of the work, Aida Čeponyte, and the curator of the project, artist Gerda Paliušyte.
The video features Rolandas Rastauskas, Tadas Balčiūnas, Saulius Paukštys, Gintaras Kuginys, Arūnas Baltėnas, Saulius Pilinkus, Darius Gerasimavičius, Gediminas Laurinavičius, Girvydas Duoblys, Donatas Jankauskas, Dainius Liškevičius. N-7 Lithuanian language film with English subtitles. In Lithuanian with English subtitles.