
Emilija Škarnulytė
- Known for
- Directing
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

Hypoxia TBA
Director

Sounds of the Desert 2026
Director, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer
- Xirasia
Xirasia 2023
Director

Riparia 2023
Director

Æqualia 2023
as Æqualia, Director

Tidal Body 2023
Director

Aphotia 2023
Director

Xirasa 2023
Director

Rakhne 2023
Director, Producer, Writer

Aphotic Zone 2022
Director, Writer, Producer

Burial 2022
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- Sounds of the desert
Sounds of the desert 2022
Director
- Absolute Dating
Absolute Dating 2021
Director
- Sunken Cities
Sunken Cities 2021
Director
- Circular Time
Circular Time 2021
Director

Pleasure Prospects 2019
Director

Neon Oasis 2019
Director

Your Body is a Mine 2019
Director

t 1/2 2019
Director

Deep Point Cloud 2019
Director

Mirror Matter 2018
Director

Sirenomelia 2017
Cinematography, Editor, Sound Recordist, Director

Energy Island 2017
Director, Script
- Qso Lens
Qso Lens 2016
Director
- The Footstones in Night Writing
The Footstones in Night Writing 2015
Director

Hollow Earth 2013
Director

Aldona 2012
Director

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film 2011
as Herself (archive footage)
Credits from TMDB.