When the two of us went dancing, the Earth was rumbling underneath my feet.

This modernised forest fairy tale is the first ever Lithuanian fiction film using stereoscopic illusion. After 12 years, renowned visual artist Deimantas Narkevičius reverts to cinema with Kyiv-bound harmless witches, weaving fairies, biting snakes, and growing stones. With DoP Eitvydas Doškus he wittily integrates 3D images into his storytelling. This poetical mystery is set in the last years of the 19th century, filmed in gorgeous South Lithuania, voiced with unique ethnographic music and folk songs in a unique dialect of Lithuanian mixed with old Polish.

Storyteller Deimantas magically reveals Doomsday Eve from myths, rituals, prayers, old folks’ warnings, bad signs, and holy chants. The world will go mad with a lot of swearing, bickering, and drinking. A wealthy landlord experiments with a rare stereoscopic device while cutting old photos. In one of them, he sees the revolutionary and pioneer of stereoscopic photography Stanislaw Filibert Fleury. The landlord’s daughter advises not to walk around barefoot during a storm. Bitten by a serpent he promises to go to the dark-haired healer in a dream. She seduces a Hornpiper, who keeps a magical secret – his soul flies like a bird.

Edvinas Pukšta