Atene Mendelyte is a Ph.D. candidate in film studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. Prior to that, she studied at the University of Amsterdam and was affiliated to the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis. She is currently working with American avant-garde films in relation to Deleuzian film-philosophy, mental- and neuroaesthetics. Previously, she worked with Samuel Beckett's television plays as well as his theatrical notebooks, concentrating on either film-philosophical or intermedial aspects of his works.