Deimantas Narkevicus - The Role of a lifetime.

This film ' The Role of a lifetime' hidden within the maze at The Tate Modern explores the complex task of representing history, combining the memories of film maker Peter Watkins with images from diverse sources. Narkevicus's work addresses the relationship between personal memory and political history, so employing archival footage, voice overs, interviews, re-enactments and found photographs his films reinterpret historical events by playing with different narrative structures. Commissioned to create something for a church in Brighton, a place unfamiliar to him, Narkevicus borrowed the experiences of others.

The images that contrive the film contain amateur footage of 1960s Brighton with a series of landscapes drawn by lithuanian artist Mindaques Lukosaitis and the films soundtrack is derived from an interview of the controverisal British film maker Peter Watkins. The juxtopsition of incongruous elements enriches the reading of each image, yet remains enigmatic. 

The familiarity of the amateur footage is not surprising as many English documentary photographers of film makers turn to this leisure life on the south coast. Although I found a complete disconnect between the images and the impersonal and emotionless soundtrack.