How can we establish a free, peaceful and environmentally friendly society? What kind of future could we build? In Respublika, techno, film and theatre work in concert to create a distinct, utopian world. The members of this multilingual group – brought together by artist Łukasz Twarkowski – conducted a radical experiment on themselves: for several weeks, they withdrew from civilisation to the forests of Lithuania, cutting themselves off from everyday concerns. While exploring the ideas of basic income and utopian societies, actors started DJing and experimenting with life in a rave community and the political potential of music and rave. Director Twarkowski documented this process with his camera and recorded their fears, desires and existential concerns. Using this raw material, he created a colossal six-hour happening. During the performance, the audience is free to explore and wander around. Spectators can be simple observers or, if they want, can sit down at a table with the artists, immerse themselves in the reconstructed environment of the camp, visit the meditative sauna, and of course, they can dance! After all, isn’t dancing to rave music in all its sensual and ritual dimensions also an act of resistance?

"It is not the immersive form; it is not the forest of images; it is not the state of delirium; nor is it even the unique space that gives ‘Respublika’ its value. Its beauty lies in its humanity―naked, unadorned, yet piercingly intimate."
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"Twarkowski combines the strengths of different art forms to raise contemporary questions about the contradictory relationships between the individual and society, the economy, nature, and ourselves."
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