Short and feature films shown in the biggest film festivals in the world - from Visions du Reel, Hot Docs, Camden International film festival, Raindance film festival to Vienna Shorts, FIPADOC, Scanorama film festival, Riga International film festival, Vilnius international film festival, Viennale, Goteborg International film festival, EU Film Days (JP),
ÆQUALIA
Emilija Škarnulytė, LT 2023, 9 min 36 sec
A breathtaking natural spectacle unfolds at the confluence of the milky-white Rio Solimões and the pitch-black Rio Negro in the Amazon. A swimmer trying to navigate the thin line between the rivers finds herself in a jumble of different currents. Torn between the cold dark water of one river and the warm bright water of the other.
A cinematic journey across space and time, Aphotic Zone peers back from the future through dark oceans to witness the threats of climate crisis and economic extractivism; the idealistic prospects of science; and the catastrophic consequences of human greed.
Burial invites viewer for an immersive sensorial trip into the unique and vast Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) in Lithuania, now undergoing a decommissioning process. Cold War energy structures impact recent geopolitical processes and leave planetary threats over long periods of time. The project takes a geological approach – it reads things that compose this flat landscape as a stack of stratigraphic layers. Burial is an intertwined section through the current entanglement of identities, spatial practices, infrastructures and geological resources.
APHOTIC ZONE
Emilija Škarnulytė, LT 2022, 15 min
BURIAL
Emilija Škarnulytė, LT 2023, 60 min
RAKHNE
Emilija Škarnulytė, LT 2024, 7 min
Data is not an abstract concept. It is an object on Earth. As the limitations of data retention in normal environments become more apparent, given the exponential growth of data created, entities that control cloud servers seek more and more novel means of storage. The deep oceanic environment is paradoxical. It offers temperature control, predictable patterns, and insulation from human error and the seasonal vicissitudes of climate above mean sea level.