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Article: Deimantas Narkevicius: Akademie der Kunste.
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- Artforum International
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- March 1, 2006
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"We put images and sounds together, but we never discuss with the audience, with people, what it means to do this." English director Peter Watkins thus describes every filmmaker's predicament, in Deimantas Narkevicius's DVD projection The Role of a Lifetime, 2003. Narkevicius, who questions the documentary genre, has found the subject of a lifetime in Watkins, whom he interviewed in Lithuania, where the filmmaker now lives. This self-imposed exile reflects Watkins's professional ostracism, which began in 1966 when the BBC banned The War Game, his vision of nuclear warfare. In works like Punishment Park (1970) or La Commune (Paris 1871) (1999), Watkins has challenged what ...