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DECLASSIFIED : Lithuanian Film Posters

9 May-1 Aug 2011

Lithuanian Embassy
London W1U 6AU

Overview

This rare collection of Lithuanian film posters forms part of photographer Marta Ovod’s personal archive of posters spanning a period between 1967-2001. Each poster is not merely a revelatory aesthetic representation of Lithuanian cinema but an effective message-carrier from another epoch, an indispensable tool for cracking open the back-story of Soviet and Independent Lithuania. The posters offer forensic proof of this transitional period, its shifting ideological and socio-political system and the films they promoted.