While shooting “Flying over blue field” we lived in Birštonas sanatorium hotel. I was watching treatment procedures. People were plunging into bubble, mud and mineral water baths. They were going circles singing, were standing under cold water spouts. All this seemed like a sacred ritual, that frees from scurf of life. They were naked, like just born, without any signs of standing in society. —Audrius Stonys
Audrius Stonys was born on the 28th of April, 1966, in Vilnius. 1984 – 1989 was studying in the National Conservatory of Vilnius (actually Lithuanian Theatre and Music Academy). 1989 has had an internship in the Jonas Mekas Cinema Anthology Archive in New York. Since 1989 has created 12 documentaries and a short fiction film. In 1992 his film “The Land of the Blind” (“Neregiu Zeme”) was awarded with the ECA “Felix” prize as the best documentary of the year. The director is the Jury member in the festivals of Leipzig, Neu Brandenburg, Siena, Sao Paolo – Rio de Janeiro. In 2004 – 2005 was reading a documentary cinema course in the European Cinema College in Denmark. 2006 lectures in Tokyo Waseda University. —stonys.lt