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Audrius Mickevičius was an interdisciplinary artist, working with film, photography, architecture, installations, graphics, sound and writing. He was a professor in at Department of Media Art at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. In 1983, he made his first 8mm film Requiem for Quartet. Since then, Mickevičius created 17 more films. In recent years, he made several experimental, documentary and fiction films that were screened at various international film festivals and at MoMA, New York. From 2010, he was a member of the Lithuanian Filmmakers Union. He worked and lived in Vilnius, Lithuania, until his untimely death in 2017.

Nerijus Milerius is a scriptwriter, philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vilnius University, Lithuania. He teaches film philosophy, religious cinema, cultural studies and aesthetics. He is the editor and one of the authors of the monography Film and Philosophy and the author of the monography Apocalypse in Cinema: The Philosophical Presuppositions (Vilnius University Press, 2013). Milerius is an author or co-author of several scripts for feature films: Isaac (director Jurgis Matulevičius) released in 2019, and Antigonė (director Oskaras Koršunovas), in development. Milerius was the script editor of the documentary film Exemplary Behaviour and in 2017 he became the co-director of the film.