Zanete Skarule

BIOGRAPHIE

Žanete Skarule is a Riga-born filmmaker based in Amsterdam. Over the years she has worked in film production in New York and Los Angeles, where she also graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with an MFA in film directing. Žanete works in different genres and techniques – fiction, documentary, experimental, and installation – using both analog and digital mediums. Filmmakers like Jonas Mekas, often regarded as the godfather of avant-garde cinema, have left a significant impact on her artistic practice. Žanete worked in Mekas’ New York-based studio until 2012 when she started her journey as a filmmaker. Her debut award-winning documentary Flying Monks Temple (2017) tells a story of a utopian architectural object created for flying performances at the top of sacred Songshan mountain in China. Besides filmmaking, Žanete is involved in art and film curation.

FILMOGRAPHIE