prehistoricsoul LAB
Miglė Križinauskaitė / Lithuania
Website: https://miglekrizinauskaite.com/
Instagram: miglekrizinauskaite
Miglė Križinauskaitė is an experimental filmmaker and audio-visual artist from Lithuania, working with analogue media and both moving and still images. Drawing on embodied perception, the poetics of place, and the textures of memory, she explores how the flow of movement, attention, and perception shapes image-making.
The artist holds an MA in Film Directing from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD in artistic research titled Travelogue as Dreamscape: An Experimental Analogue Film Practice. Filmmaker has directed eight short films which have screened in numerous festivals, such as 25 FPS Festival, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Experimental Film Festival Process, Kinoskop – Analog Experimental Film festival, OBSKURA – Analog film festival, and others.
Miglė at prehistoricsoul LAB
During her residency at LAB, Miglė conducted experimental research and preliminary explorations for an analogue film project engaging with the landscapes and ecosystems surrounding the Ayung River in Bali. Through Super 8 mm and 16 mm film experiments, eco-developing techniques, field recordings, and embodied observation, she investigated the relationship between landscape, memory, and perception, forming analogue dreamscapes. During the residency, she also learned from local artists new techniques of working with analogue image and sound, exploring ways to combine these material practices within her filmmaking process.
Her research engaged with ecological image-making and analogue material processes while entering into dialogue with local cultural practitioners and the surrounding environment. Through fieldwork, experimentation, and collaborative exchange, the residency became a space to explore how moving images can emerge from attentive presence within a place and the experience of travel.
Rooted in tactile and sensory filmmaking, Miglė’s practice moves through the intersections of place, body, and memory. Working with the material qualities of Super 8 film, she creates gestures shaped by analogue textures, landscape encounters, and embodied observation, often unfolding as experimental travelogues.
The final short experimental film from this residency, bringing these explorations to fruition, is coming soon.
A grant from the Lithuanian Film Centre supported the artist’s participation in the residency.
