
Person
Emilija Škarnulytė
Directing
Biography
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.
Known for

Burial
Director

Energy Island
Director

Pleasure Prospects
Director

Neon Oasis
Director

Rakhne
Director

Hollow Earth
Director

Aphotia
Director

Mirror Matter
Director

Xirasa
Director

Tidal Body
Director
Filmography
- 2026Sounds of the DesertDirector
- 2023XirasiaDirector
- 2023RipariaDirector
- 2023ÆqualiaÆqualia
- 2023Tidal BodyDirector
- 2023AphotiaDirector
- 2023RakhneDirector
- 2023XirasaDirector
- 2022BurialDirector
- 2022Aphotic ZoneDirector
- 2022Sounds of the desertDirector
- 2021Sunken CitiesDirector
- 2021Circular TimeDirector
- 2021Absolute DatingDirector
- 2019Pleasure ProspectsDirector
- 2019Your Body is a MineDirector
- 2019Neon OasisDirector
- 2019Deep Point CloudDirector
- 2019t 1/2Director
- 2018Mirror MatterDirector
- 2017SirenomeliaEditor
- 2017Energy IslandDirector
- 2016Qso LensDirector
- 2015The Footstones in Night WritingDirector
- 2013Hollow EarthDirector
- 2012AldonaDirector
- 2011Free Radicals: A History of Experimental FilmHerself (archive footage)
- —HypoxiaDirector
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