Time is an Egg
Embodied, Rhythm, Video art2025
5:30 min video looping
Film Time is an Egg visualizes the holistic study of marginimas (traditional egg decoration) technique. Lithuanian designer Eglė dives into her family heritage and interprets values behind the custom. Genre of magical realism is used to make connections between the perception of time and the sun, ritual and memory. Sunlets are tributed as the answer to all questions of existence.
The techniques and images used in the film were informed by the meditative, layered, repetitative and domestic process of marginimas.