The incredible visual trance of Prologos may very likely blur the viewer’s coherence of the film. The director explores the connections between the real and the illusion, the memory and the routine, the past and the present, and fuses them together with fascinating aesthetical choices. His gliding camera is always pursuing the shadows. What is captured on the lens and interpreted through his gaze is inevitably the debris of reality. We are presented with a great variety of possibilities rather than a closed narrative, and the film is open to our own interpretation. Prologos is the posthumous work of Mantas Kvedaravičius, originally planned as a prequel to the critically acclaimed Parthenon that premiered at Venice Critics’ Week in 2019. (Karen PARK)