Miglė Križinauskaitė (b. 1987)
is an audiovisual artist and filmmaker. In 2020, she graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with an MA in film directing and is now a PhD candidate in artistic research, focusing on experimental travelogue filmmaking. Her work often conveys abstract ideas through a personal gaze, exploring themes like the erosion of memory and time, intertwining reality with imagination and experimental art forms.
2024 | Film | Super 8 mm to HD | Color | Sound | 7′
This film is a poetic essay, an ode to the sea. Although it does not place a human being at its center, it is precisely the absence of a human that best reveals the essence of humanity. As poet Kahlil Gibran said, ‘There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.’
2024 | Film | Super 8 mm to HD | Color | Sound | 10′
There is a story circulating among Zen Buddhist monks about two types of monks. First ones are settled and spend all their life in a monastery, they are identified with the blue mountains, while others are like white clouds – constantly traveling from one place to another. In the film, the filmmaker and Won Bo Sunim, a Lithuanian woman who decided to go to South Korea more than 20 years ago and become a Zen monk, embark on a journey in the mountains of South Korea.
2024 | Still image series | 35 mm slides
This photo series delves into the nightscape of Tbilisi through slide photography, showcasing the dynamic interplay of movement, architecture, and ambient light. Each photograph reveals Tbilisi’s soul, where ancient structures and modern lights blend harmoniously, creating a symphony of shadows and illumination. It invites viewers to explore the urban landscape from a new perspective, uncovering the hidden rhythms and ethereal beauty that emerge after dark.
2022 | Film | 16 mm to HD | Color | Sound | 4′
This film is a reflective audiovisual collage of images that have never met and were never meant to meet. It is a rational connection—grounded by inner impulses and emotions—of two irreconcilable realities in space and time.
2022 | Film | HD | B&W | Sound | 3′
The understanding that energy neither originates from nothing nor disappears into nothing leads us to explore the concepts of reincarnation, rebirth, and transmigration from philosophical and religious perspectives.
2021 | Film performance | 35 mm slides | Live sound | 12′
This lively, spatial, sonic, and visual work demonstrates the dynamics of contemporary “expanded” cinema and broadens notions of its creation and presentation. The performance, featuring looping filmstrips, moving slide projections, and a live percussive soundtrack, seeks to create a unique cinematic experience.
2021 | Film | Super 8 mm | Color | Sound
“Lunar Reverie” explores this celestial phenomenon through a dreamlike montage, delving into the moon’s mesmerizing allure and its silent embrace of the countless souls it captivates. The film captures the strange enchantment of the moon’s nocturnal caress, revealing the profound connection between its silvery light and the lunar addicts among us.
2020 | Film | 16 mm to HD | Color | B&W | Sound | 13′
With every moment – one more memory. But memory sometimes goes blind and what is left becomes hazy.
2017 | Film | HD | Color | Sound | 7′
The film is sincere, simple, but at the same time existential thoughts causing story. This is mother’s and her four-year-old daughter’s dialogue. The film shows their journey, which goal is to see The Cosmos, place from where the girl came into her mother’s abdomen.