Waiting

Vilnius, Lithuania, 2015video, 22:40 min, news background loop, dimensions variable

In the spring of 2014, eager for U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Lithuania, the country's public broadcaster announced his arrival at Vilnius Airport. But a delay by the Vice President in exiting the plane caused problems for the broadcaster's live coverage plans. The minutes pass, and as the script that was prepared for the coverage runs out, increasingly complex commentary focuses on the visit's political dimension. Unexpectedly, the wait itself comes to be more significant than the actual visit. In the film a Lithuanian voice-over is added to the broadcast that was originally shown in Lithuanian