Mantas Kvedaravičius

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 RussoUkrainian 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 counterterrorism zone of Chechnya Cambridge University 2012 Wartorn 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 201415 had come under the attacks of separatist troops In 2019 Kvedaravičiuss 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 Working on yet another Mariupol documentary Mantas Kvedaravičius was killed on 30 March 2022 during the Siege of Mariupol Lyudmyla Denisova Ukraines ombudsperson for human rights alleged that Kvedaravičius was taken prisoner by rashists who later shot him The occupiers threw the directors body out into the street Kvedaravičiuss friend Hanna Bilobrova reported that two days after his death a Russian soldier had led her to his body She said that he had been shot in the stomach but there was no blood on the ground and no bullet hole in the clothes he was wearing Bilobrova who brought his body home to Lithuania has completed his Mariupolis 2 film