Deimantas Narkevičius began working with film in the early 1990s. His works employ a complex practice of memory and depict contemporary society as it confronts painful historical processes. Using either film or digital formats enabled him to explore multiple interpretations of historical narratives and to experiment with the perception of time’s flow. He has found the short film format to be an ideal medium for exploring both visual and sonic language.

In Narkevičius’s films, the dissonance between image and word underscores the impossibility of objective documentary. He avoids close-ups, a common feature in contemporary documentaries used to emphasize the sincerity of the speaker’s testimony. Often, the protagonists in his narratives are absent from the screen, replaced by associative objects, drawings, and archival footage.

In 2023, Narkevičius released his first full-length stereoscopic film, Twittering Soul.

Deimantas Narkevičius was born in 1964 in Utena and currently lives and works in Vilnius. He graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Department of Sculpture, in 1994. In 2008, he received the Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe and the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts.

Narkevičius’s works have been acquired by several dozen art institutions and private collectors, including MoMA in New York, Tate Modern in London, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the French National Contemporary Art Collection, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk (Denmark), and the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in Vilnius.