Three Days

The work on this film started in late 2008, when “Ledo Takas” invited me to make a documentary about a disbanded black metal band Dissimulation. I knew the band, I liked what they did, and I said I could do it as long as it didn’t have to be a talking-heads-in-the-grey-backdrop documentary.

We started shooting in January 2009, with -15 Celsius outside, in Anykščiai region, trying to make the characters open up at the bonfire; but the result felt staged. I wasn’t really happy with it. So when the band released the news about getting together to play their last gig in an open-air metal music festival that would take place at the city they were born in, as people and as a band, there was no doubt that this is the best chance we’ll all have at making the film.

For three days before their last-ever (or so they thought) live gig, I was with them in their rehearsal room, in their car, in their lives, backstage, on their after-gig tripping. This time, they did not play some characters; they just went on being themselves, while having the camera crew and me hanging around.

A disclosure, a tight relationship, trust, hope, highs and lows, the essential of relating within the band was the outcome of the days along their path.

Featuring Dissimulation
Directed by Daina Pupkevičiūtė
Written by Daina Pupkevičiūtė & Dissimulation
Produced by Tadas Kazlauskas
Runtime 63′, color, Lithuanian with English subtitles
Ledo Takas production 2011-2012
Premiered at Heavy Metal Film Fest in USA, California, 2011