ABOUT
Eglė Razumaitė is a writer and director born in Vilnius in 1993. She graduated from Vilnius University with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and holds a master’s degree in film directing from the LMTA Faculty of Theatre and Film. In 2017, she participated in the alternative art education program at Rupert Art Center and was actively involved in Lithuanian contemporary art scene until fully turned into filmmaking. Eglė has been working for the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Department of Sacral Art Heritage, since 2017. Together with a collective, she founded an analog moving image lab SPONGĖ. Her short film The Fall won the Lithuanian Association of Cinematographers’ Best Young Cinematographer’s Work prize in 2022 and was nominated for the Lithuanian National Film Award in 2023. Her short film Ootid was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Festival de Cannes in 2024.
Eglė’s work interweaves humanitarian profile studies, interdisciplinary art, and filmmaking developing hybrid forms of cinematic language. She is primarily concerned with themes of attachment and detachment, the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion from centers of power and social groups, the perception of women and transgender women in contemporary culture.
2024, Ootid, super 16mm short film, fiction, world premiere at Festival de Cannes, short film competition
2023, The Fall, super 16mm short film, fiction, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, national premiere at Vilnius International Film Festival
2021, JCDecaux prize: Spaces, installation Radical Tolerance, 15m long curtain with photo-collage and 35mm moving image projection. Jury special mention
2020, Notes from the Underground, super 16mm short film, experimental, national premiere at Vilnius International Film Festival
2018, Down to Earth, 16mm short film, experimental, Waiting for Another Coming - group show, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2017, Water Castle, 16mm short film, experimental, Doesn't Have to be as Ever - group show, Rupert, Vilnius
2017, Delta Mityba outpost in Venice, Lithuanian pavilion, Venice
2016, Young Poor Artists Show’16, Delta bar, with Jonas Palekas, Kipras Dubauskas, Žurnalistų Namai, Vilnius
2016, Performance The Pull No1. together with Kipras Dubauskas, Augantis Poreikis - group show, Šiaulių dailės galerija, Šiauliai
2016, Participant in Walk Vilnius Walk, interdisciplinary project, Vilnius
2016, Animation in the movie Take as much as you can carry, Vilnius, Krakow
2015, Trūkis, Voveraitė - group show at the exhibition, Žilvinas Landzbergas Be Karūnos, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
2014, Personal painting exhibition, Savicko paveikslų galerija, Palanga
2013, XXI-st century anatomy, group show, gallery Arka, Vilnius