03/12/2024
Last Saturday, NIJOLĖ has been screned at Baltic Sea Film Festival in Sweden.
With producer Dagne Vildziunaitė.
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A portrait of the Colombian artist Nijolė Šivickas and her unusual relationship with her son Antanas Mockus.
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NIJOLĖ
Antanas Mockus, once rector of the National University of Colombia, twice Mayor of Bogotá and three times presidential candidate, is proof that it is possible to make politics without corruption. He recently was elected congressman and through his unconventional mixture of education and performative arts, Antanas has been able to transform a whole generation of Colombians. His mother and source of inspiration is the fascinating and mysterious Nijolė Šivickas (1925 - 2018), a Colombian sculptress born in Lithuania. Nijolė has never been very open about her life and even Antanas realizes he knows very little about his mother’s roots. Antanas’ curiosity takes them on an intimate and confronting journey. When Nijolė is invited to her motherland for a retrospective, Antanas tries to convince her to present her work in Lithuania for the very first time. But Nijolė, who has looked at the world of art with strong skepticism, wants nothing more than having back her son in her atelier, to sculpt “something that belongs to him”.
Through Baltic landscapes and the chaotic streets of a Latin American metropolis, Nijolė and Antanas explore topics as art, politics, migration, independence, the emancipation of women and the concept of family. With NIJOLĖ, director Sandro Bozzolo and his team approach both extraordinary characters in their unusual mother-son relationship, in their wonder about what should be remembered and which things are better left forgotten.
