Defence of public spaces and its dramatization built on a strange nostalgia

In a cycle of essays the author discusses various aspects of the development and fate of Vilnius‘ urban public spaces. In this particularly essay he analyses why some campaings that were expected to defend city dwellers‘ rights to public spaces ended in disaster, however, especially campaign of „defending“ Lietuva cinema initiated and directed by artists Gediminas and Nomeda Urbonas and a group of their supporters. The result of this campaign was disastrous and even though many art critics still praise its experience, in fact the campaign was nothing more than a public spectacle