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Burial

Lithuania, Norway, 2022, 60 minutes, Color, Lithuanian; Turkish captioned, English subtitled


Director:  Emilija Škarnulytė

Screenplay: Emilija Škarnulytė
Cinematography: Emilija Škarnulytė, Eitvydas Doskus, Audrius Budrys, Adam Khalil
Editing: Mykolas Zukauskas, Darius Silenas
Music: Gaute Barlindhaug
Sound: Vytis Puronas
Producer: Dagne Vildziunaite, Elisa Fernanda Pirir
Production: Just a moment, Mer Film

A python slithers and curls over the abandoned control room of "Chernobyl's Big Sister", the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania, whose radioactive core is as an unleashed monster that will slither through time for a million years. From Etruscan ruins and sunken cities to the most modern of underground repositories, director Emilija Škarnulytė follows our attempts to bury the immortal. Addressing the epochal effects of nuclear technology on all levels, Burial follows the cycle of power, an eternal return, another serpent eating its tail.