The video “After dusk” is grounded in direct observation and immersion. Filmed in the Monte forest, it unfolds as a nocturnal exploration shaped by sound, memory, and presence. The voice of a lithuanian singer Birute Belada Tauteryte accompanies the work, carrying a text written by the artist that reflects on the rhythms of daily life within the residency.
The soundscape is composed entirely of field recordings gathered during night walks—cicadas, crickets, birds, frogs, and other unseen forest inhabitants. Moving through dense vegetation, where branches stretch from sky to ground and cacti and lianas entangle the space, the camera encounters fragments of a shifting ecosystem.
In the darkness, forms become unstable, and perception is guided as much by sound as by sight. The work traces a sensory passage through an environment in transformation, where the forest emerges as a living, breathing presence, continuously reshaping itself after dusk.
The second video centers on an endlessly rotating lamp projected onto Laima’s tent, creating a fragile, pulsating image in the darkness. Drawn by the light, nocturnal creatures emerge from the surrounding forest, briefly inhabiting the surface before slowly dissolving back into the night. The work unfolds through this quiet rhythm of appearance and disappearance, where the tent becomes both a screen and a threshold between worlds. It connects closely with the composition of Laima’s installation, extending its spatial and sensory logic into moving image, and emphasizing a shared atmosphere shaped by light, presence, and the subtle choreography of the environment.