Emilija Škarnulytė

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Working between the documentary and the imaginary, Škarnulytė makes films and immersive installations exploring deep time and invisible structures, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political. Winner of the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and the Ars Fennica Award 2023, Škarnulytė represented Lithuania at the XXII Triennale di Milano and was included in the Baltic Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture. She most recently presented works at MORI Art Museum, Kiasma, Gwangju Biennale, Helsinki Biennale, Vilnius Biennale, Henie Onstad Triennale. She has had solo exhibitions at Canal Projects, New York (2024), Ferme-Asile, Sion (2023); Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne (2021); Den Frie, Copenhagen (2021); National Gallery of Vilnius (2021); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2017); Contemporary Art Centre CAC of Vilnius (2015). In 2022, Škarnulytė participated in the group exhibition Penumbra organized by Fondazione In Between Art Film on the occasion of the 59th Venice Biennale. She has films in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Kadist Foundation, HAM, IFA, and her works have been screened at the Tate Modern and Serpentine Gallery in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and numerous film festivals including Rotterdam, Busan, Hotdocs and Oberhausen.

Filmography

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2026
Sounds of the Desert
Movie Director
2023
Xirasia
Movie Director
2023
Riparia
Movie Director
2023
Æqualia
Movie Æqualia
2023
Tidal Body
Movie Director
2023
Aphotia
Movie Director
2023
Rakhne
Movie Director
2023
Xirasa
Movie Director
2022
Burial
Movie Director
2022
Aphotic Zone
Movie Director
2022
Sounds of the desert
Movie Director
2021
Sunken Cities
Movie Director
2021
Absolute Dating
Movie Director
2021
Circular Time
Movie Director
2019
Pleasure Prospects
Movie Director
2019
Neon Oasis
Movie Director

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2019
Your Body is a Mine
Movie Director
2019
t 1/2
Movie Director
2019
Deep Point Cloud
Movie Director
2018
Mirror Matter
Movie Director
2017
Sirenomelia
Movie Cinematography
2017
Energy Island
Movie Director
2016
Qso Lens
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2015
The Footstones in Night Writing
Movie Director
2013
Hollow Earth
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2012
Aldona
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2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Movie Herself (archive footage)
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Hypoxia
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