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.

Film	Credit
Sounds of the Desert2026 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
XXirasia2023 · Director	Director
Riparia2023 · Director	Director
Æqualia2023 · Æqualia, Director	Æqualia, Director
Tidal Body2023 · Director	Director
Aphotia2023 · Director	Director
Rakhne2023 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
Xirasa2023 · Director	Director
Burial2022 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Aphotic Zone2022 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
SSounds of the desert2022 · Director	Director
CCircular Time2021 · Director	Director
SSunken Cities2021 · Director	Director
AAbsolute Dating2021 · Director	Director
Pleasure Prospects2019 · Director	Director
Your Body is a Mine2019 · Director	Director
Neon Oasis2019 · Director	Director
Deep Point Cloud2019 · Director	Director
t 1/22019 · Director	Director
Mirror Matter2018 · Director	Director
Sirenomelia2017 · Director	Director
Energy Island2017 · Director	Director
QQso Lens2016 · Director	Director
TThe Footstones in Night Writing2015 · Director	Director
Hollow Earth2013 · Director	Director
Aldona2012 · Director	Director
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film2011 · Herself (archive footage)	Herself (archive footage)
HypoxiaDirector	Director