Blurred Border
Blurred Border is a character-driven web documentary portraying two sides of 100 km peninsula, which with the collapse of the Soviet Union was divided into half-Lithuania, half-Kaliningrad. The Curoni…
Blurred Border
Blurred Border is a character-driven web documentary portraying two sides of 100 km peninsula, which with the collapse of the Soviet Union was divided into half-Lithuania, half-Kaliningrad. The Curonian Spit is a narrow sand peninsula, 98 km of length, which separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. In the South, Lithuanian part of the Spit borders with Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation (former germ. Königsberg, lit. Karaliaucius). In the center of this interactive documentary, there are eight characters: four on each side (4 in Kaliningrad and 4 in Lithuania). Two heroes of the same profession from different sides will form the basis of a mirrored portrait. These four portraits of Curionian locals also are reflecting the four seasons on the Curonian Spit. The fisherman is linked with autumn; a writer with winter; a forester with spring and a taxi driver is the most active in summer. According to the origin and composition, the Spit is comprised of natural and human-made complex sections of protective dune-ridge. These various forms were created by waves, wind and the human, which were also helped by the sand grains of various sizes, flora and its distribution, angles and height of dune ridges slopes, and position of the ridge according to the coastline and its inner composition. The natives of the spit, who had created an original ethnic community of fishermen, disappeared during the War and post-War period. Only the spit, forests, and empty fishermen's settlements remained. During the post-War period, the territory was populated by immigrants from the Great Lithuania and other republics, which were a part of the contemporary Soviet Union.
Blurred Border
Documentary
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Blurred Border is a character-driven web documentary portraying two sides of 100 km peninsula, which with the collapse of the Soviet Union was divided into half-Lithuania, half-Kaliningrad. The Curonian Spit is a narrow sand peninsula, 98 km of length, which separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. In the South, Lithuanian part of the Spit borders with Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation (former germ.
Königsberg, lit. Karaliaucius). In the center of this interactive documentary, there are eight characters: four on each side (4 in Kaliningrad and 4 in Lithuania).
Two heroes of the same profession from different sides will form the basis of a mirrored portrait. These four portraits of Curionian locals also are reflecting the four seasons on the Curonian Spit. The fisherman is linked with autumn; a writer with winter; a forester with spring and a taxi driver is the most active in summer.
According to the origin and composition, the Spit is comprised of natural and human-made complex sections of protective dune-ridge. These various forms were created by waves, wind and the human, which were also helped by the sand grains of various sizes, flora and its distribution, angles and height of dune ridges slopes, and position of the ridge according to the coastline and its inner composition. The natives of the spit, who had created an original ethnic community of fishermen, disappeared during the War and post-War period.
Only the spit, forests, and empty fishermen's settlements remained. During the post-War period, the territory was populated by immigrants from the Great Lithuania and other republics, which were a part of the contemporary Soviet Union..