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Evaldas Jansas. "Sodų g. plaštakės"/The Embassy, © 2016

“Gardens Street” is a literal translation for Lithuanian “Sodų gatvė” – the name of notorious street in the station area of Vilnius, Lithuania, where prostitutes are usually picked by their customers. Prostitution in Lithuania is illegal. The film shows local prostitutes attending regularly a particular spot of Sodų gatvė, which happens to be in front of a tombstone masonry vending place, to wait for the customers. Evaldas Jansas was shooting the views of this spot continuously from a workshop located in a house just in front of it. To make the movie, the artist edited the 40-hour footage depicting the four seasons of the year passing by in “the Embassy“, as he ironically called this area of Gardens street.