The Lithuanian filmmaker Audrius Stonys has characterized his beautiful, mesmerizing films as ”intimate talks with similarly minded people.” Still, his mode of communicating is highly visual; he rarely uses words as he communes with a young girl who visits her mother in prison in Alone, or an older blind woman and a disabled man in Earth of the Blind. While the films display an acute sensitivity to human solitude, as well as to the rural landscape, the subjects of Stonys's poetic documentaries remain intangible. He clusters a number of stories or resonant scenes, linking them intuitively rather than analytically, eschewing explanation. “I have never pretended to be universally understood. Every attempt to speak for thousands is wrong in itself,” he says. DOX critic Tue Steen Muller has observed, “Though he has a much more romantic approach to reality and a more distinct narrative style, Stonys is the most obvious follower to the Armenian master Artavazd Peleshian and his enigmatic film language.”