Vilnius Academy of Arts

My research on the urban spaces of Vilnius focuses on how urban development and infrastructure decisions reflect the personal and community needs of the residents. How environmental sustainability is taken into account in the creation of a sustainable urban environment: citizens' access to green spaces, leisure areas and their inner well-being in the city. I usecontemporary animation tools to create a dystopian narrative that provokes and raises questions about contemporary urban development processes.

A travel experience, an encounter with other codes and other gods in a contemporary Lithuania. In the country where legends and pagan practices have survived the influence of the Catholic religion and later the Soviet bloc to feed a folklore still tenacious, weighs the strange sensation of presences belonging to another world. If one takes the time to listen and look, the forest seems inhabited, filled with stories and life. This narrative is part of a search of the other and of different spiritualities. Where some indulge in rituals borrowed from Mongolian traditions while others perpetuate a cultural heritage. If Laima, the mother, the one of destiny, of good and bad fortune, still exists in the Lithuanian culture, the ideology of the Soviet bloc is only a painful page of history.

Plica polonica is a disease people used to believe in that would make your hair uncombable. The main protagonist of the film- a severely tangled girl- goes on a search for a "cure". She seeks answers from the most tangled of them all - the infamous Baba Yaga.