B e a t r i c e  Bukantyte

Caprice is a 15 minute single screen loop, presented in the style of silent cinema: with intertitles and musical accompaniment. Set in “Cafe Cleopatra” (notorious for its high quality absinthe and being open all night), our film is a gallery of fragile, self-obsessed characters unwilling or unable to connect. Over the course of a night, we see them trapped in reveries, gossip and people watching, seeking the buzz of alcohol and the dance embrace. They are like cut flowers or pinned butterflies and they must pay for their capricious beauty with loneliness and a never-ending anxiety about their self-image. Our film offers hints of stories as it moves between moments which are sad, ridiculous, ultra-feminine, orchidaceous.