Warmblooded and Earthbound
Eglė Budvytytė, Warmblooded and Earthbound, 2024, installation view at Rozenstraat during Sonic Acts Biennial 2026. Photo by Pieter Kers.
Warmblooded and Earthbound explores the intimacies between land and body, delving into themes of ritual, death, care, and community. Set against Lithuanian landscapes, the film moves across river shores, limestone and clay quarries, dissolving the hierarchy between body and landscape, revealing their deep interconnection.
The film’s choreographed scenes and song lyrics draw inspiration from multiple sources, including the research of Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas and her theories of Neolithic matrilineal societies – their burial rituals and their understanding of the sacred and the everyday as inseparable.
Director: Eglė Budvytytė\nVoice, melodies, lyrics: Eglė Budvytytė\nPerformed by and co-created with: Ming Jou Chen, Fazle Shairmahomed, Noha Ramadan, Tomislav Feller, Esther Mugambi, Kristina Skaldina, Saulė Budvytyte, Alexandra Krivulina
The work was commissioned by Frac Ile-de-France in the context of the Lithuanian Culture Season in France.

















