Musicologist Vytautas Landzbergis

In 1983, long before becoming a leader of the Lithuanian pro independence movement Sąjūdis, musicology Professor Vytautas Landsbergis was submerged in the Soviet condition. A black and white film clip by Algimantas Kunčius presents a standard room in one of the thousands of precast concrete homes built in Lithuania. It is a sunny summer day and the camera wanders across a table and pans out to the balcony, sliding along cracks in the precast concrete panels to show the common reality of industrially built housing. Landsbergis works in his study on the publication Čiurlionis Music. The symbolist artist and musician Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis work is so sensitive to Baltic nature and spirituality was a key motivation and inspiration while formulating ideas that later galvanized the independence movement.