Mantas Kvedaravičius

Mantas Kvedaravičius

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Directing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1976-08-28

  • Day of Death

    2022-04-02 (45 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Biržai, Lithuania

Biography

Mantas Kvedaravičius (23 June 1976 – 30 March 2022; Biržai, Lithuanian SSR) was a Lithuanian filmmaker, documentary director, anthropologist and archaeologist known for war reporting in hostile areas. Mantas Kvedaravičius was killed on 30 March 2022 during the Siege of Mariupol (Russo-Ukrainian War).

Kvedaravičius held a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and was an associate professor at Vilnius University. His doctoral thesis concerns "Knots of absence: death, dreams, and disappearances at the limits of law in the counter-terrorism zone of Chechnya" (Cambridge University, 2012). War-torn Chechnya, one of the republics of the Russian Federation, is also the setting of his 2011 documentary film, Barzakh ("Limbo"). His next documentary film, published in 2016, focuses on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, which in the years 2014–15 had come under the attacks of separatist troops. In 2019, Kvedaravičius's first feature film appeared, Partenonas (Parthenon), set in Athens, Odessa, and Istanbul. Based on several years of ethnographic research, it is a movie about the enigmatic workings of memory. In arresting, often disconnected images, the pivotal character revives various lives he may have lived. "Memories betray him, but he knows for sure that in one of these lives, he will be killed."

Crew

  • (2022)

    Mariupolis 2

    Director, Producer

  • (2022)

    Prologos

    Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer, Producer

  • (2019)

    Parthenon

    Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Co-Producer, Screenplay

  • (2019)

    Isaac

    Additional Camera

  • (2016)

    Mariupolis

    Producer, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Editor, Director

  • (2011)

    Barzakh

    Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography