With striking images and meticulous sound work, Burial reminds us of the paradoxical relationship between scientific development and the destruction of nature. Questioning the effects of human activity on the planet we inhabit and which we have put at risk, the film focuses on the unsolved issues of nuclear plants and nuclear activity.
Cinematography
Underwater nuclear cathedral shots that'll wreck you
Sound
Geiger counter ASMR meets industrial dread
Direction
Škarnulytė turns concrete ruins into cosmic horror
Director
Emilija Škarnulytė
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Škarnulytė filmed inside Ignalina, the Chernobyl sister plant—Lithuania's 'closed' zone that EU membership forced into decommission.
The title refers to both nuclear waste storage and cinema itself as burial—images entombing time we cannot outlast.
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