Martyna Ratnik is a Vilnius-based cultural worker. Her practice, spanning writing, filmmaking and curation, focuses on landscapes and their (de)colonization, the aesthetics of boredom and memory politics in the (post-)Soviet space and beyond. Martyna’s work explores the tensions arising between grand narratives and the everyday and is interconnected by the search for various ways history – from personal to planetary – can be embodied and transgressed.

In the past, Martyna has curated film screenings for the Independent Vilnius Cinematheque “Meno Avilys”, London’s Genesis Cinema and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, while her moving-image work, among others, was screened at the European Media Art Festival, LUX Moving Image and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. Having recently completed her Film and Screen Studies BA degree at the University of the Arts London, she is currently working as a member of the London Short Film Festival’s Selection Committee.