Dr. GoraParasit

Country: Lithuania

Biography

Gintarė Minelgaitė (b. 1984), known by the pseudonym Dr. GoraParasit, is a Lithuanian theatre artist, experimental filmmaker, and designer. She graduated in acting from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2005 and later pursued a degree in graphic design at the London Metropolitan University. Minelgaitė worked on various publications and as an art director for projects like Future Shorts and Secret Cinema. She returned to theatre, earning a master’s degree in directing from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2013, and participated in Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in New York.

Dr. GoraParasit has created over two dozen installations, theatre works, and experimental films, including 1001 Nights in America (2014), Tuk Tuk Anamnesis (2017), SELF-FLES (2017), and Tik Tok Shakespeare (2020). Her works have been showcased internationally in the UK, US, Israel, and Germany. Known for a grotesque and harsh visual aesthetic, she blends theatrical elements with neuroscience and digital culture, often challenging boundaries.

Her notable awards include the Best Music Video at the 2017 Vilnius International Film Festival and the Golden Cross of the Stage in 2019 for her comic book opera Alfa.

Snow White

In Snow White, director Dr. GoraParasit presents a powerful and healing interpretation of the Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale set against the backdrop of glacial mythology.

BDSM aesthetics allow us to question human nature while simultaneously highlighting the everyday myopia of society, our naivety, and social prejudices. Dr. GoraParasit’s performance explores a range of themes, including glacial ecology, the climate crisis, multilingualism, migration, hate, and social-gender dynamics. It also invites us to contemplate broader existential questions of the present and the future. By seamlessly combining different media – such as twerk dancing, video game logic, soundscapes by composer Sandra Kazlauskaitė, and club music – the director exposes her own psychological vulnerabilities and those of contemporary society.

Writer and director of the film’s scenes Dr. GoraParasit

Composer: Sandra Kazlauskaitė

Lighting artist: Paulius Varonenka

Cameraman : Edgaras Jocius

Choreographer : Ema Senkuvienė

Cast: Susana AbdulMajid, Dainius Svobonas, Mantas Bendžius, Agnieszka Ravdo, Indrė Patkauskaitė, Pijus Narijauskas, Ugnė Žirgulė, Andrius Alešiūnas, Povilas Jatkevičius, Motiejus Ivanauskas, Miglė Navasaitytė, Goda Petkutė,

Mass scene: Artūras Sužiedėlis, Marius Karolis Gotbergas, Livija Andriuškevičiūtė, Ignė Birškutė, Karolina Jablonskytė, Gabrielė Bartkutė, Saulė Zokaitytė, Greta Balčiūnaitė, Daiva Kvedaravičiūtė, Ugnė Vasiliauskaitė, Edvinas Siurblys, Lukas Šimelis, Roberta Lukaševičiūtė, Saulė Šeputytė, Viktorija Kuzabavičiūtė, Kotryna Markevičiūtė, Monika Kvainickaitė, Saulė Šeputytė.