The Juggler

2018 · 11m · Lithuania

Directed by Skirmanta Jakaitė

Genres: essay film, experimental

Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal

We fool ourselves that the world is one — a film about the scary, unknown other side of life we never fully grasp.

Picked by Margot

The scouts

Jakaitė builds a genuinely disorienting argument about perception and unknowability—the kind of essay film that resists easy consumption, which is exactly why it shouldn't be ignored.

Felix

The formal architecture here is what matters: how the film uses fragmentation and tonal shifts to enact the epistemological crisis it's theorizing, placing it squarely in a lineage of structural cinema that uses form as argument.

Margot

There's a single cut or transition—likely early in the piece—where the film tips from representing duality into *being* the duality, and that moment of formal commitment is what transforms an interesting premise into something that actually breathes.

Zoe