New Artist
We welcome artist Lawrence Lek to the LUX collection.
Click here to learn more about this artist and their works.
New Artist Focus Essay
Read Jade Foster’s New Artist Focus Essay on Alberta Whittle’s moving image practice here.
Featured Festival
Our featured festival for the month of October is The 64th BFI London Film Festival. We wanted to share with you the LUX works that will be featured in this years LFF: Experimenta.
As part of the ‘A Stream of Echoes’ programme, Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) by Suneil Sanzgiri (2024) will have its European premiere.
A Part of the ‘Collective Summoning’ programme, Razeh-del by Maryam Tafakory (2024) will have its UK Premiere.
Click here to learn more about the festival.
Other Festivals Featuring LUX Artists
New York Film Festival: Currents – New York, NY USA
Efforts of Nature by Morgan Quaintance (2023)
Man Number 4 by Miranda Pennel (2024)
Being John Smith by John Smith (2024)
Mirage Festival – Oslo, Norway
Latifah and Himli’s Nomadic Uncle by Alnoor Dewshi (1992)
Image Forum Festival – Tokyo, Japan
A Magical Substance Flows Into Me by Jumana Manna (2016)
Blessed Blessed Oblivion by Jumana Manna (2010)
Downside Up by Tony Hill (1984)
To Keep The Mountain at Bay by Gelare Khoshgozaran (2023)
Efforts of Nature by Morgan Quaintance (2023)
Seoul Animal Film Festival – Seoul, Republic of Korea
A selection of works by Deborah Stratman
Taiwan Women’s Film Festival – Taipei, Taiwan
Electrical Gaza by Rosalind Nashashibi (2015)
Uppsala International Short Film Festival – Uppsala, Sweden
YYAA by Wojciech Bruszewski (1973)
Periodic Vibrations in an Elastic Medium by Janis Crystal Lipzin (1973)
A Grammar For Listening part 1 by Luke Fowler (2009)
DOK Leipzig – Leipzig, Germany
Associations by John Smith (1975)
WNDX Festival of Moving Image – Winnipeg, Canada
The Ragwort by Ellie Kyungran Heo (2023)
New Works
- https://lux.org.uk/work/glass-factory-stekliani-1972-everyday/
- https://lux.org.uk/work/with-horses/
- https://lux.org.uk/work/razeh-del-%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b2-%d8%af%d9%84/
- https://lux.org.uk/work/e-minor/
- https://lux.org.uk/work/nimporte-quoi-exterieur-jour/
- https://lux.org.uk/work/4-ayes/
Now Showing- Screenings
Backcomb by Sarah Pucill (1995) at Club Des Femmes – London, UK. link
Forgaers by Jumana Manna (2022) at Gylleboverket Cinema – Skåne Län, Sweden. link
Foragers by Jumana Manna (2022) at Star & Shadow Cinema – Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK. link
The Nations Finest by Keith Piper (1990) at Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis MN USA. link
All My Life (1966) and Castro Street (1966) by Bruce Baillie, The Flicker by Tony Conrad (1966), Wavelength by Michael Snow (1966), Surviving You, Always by Morgan Quaintance (2020) & Hold Me While I’m Naked by George Kuchar (1966) at Eye Filmmuseum – Amsterdam, Netherlands. link
A Portrait of Ga by Margaret Tait (1952) & All My Life by Bruce Baillie (1966) at Centre Pompidou – Paris France. link
Hydra Decapita by The Otolith Group (2010) at Anthology Film Archives – New York, NY USA. link
And still, it remains by Arwa Abuwara & Turab Shah (2023) at Wexner Center for the Arts – Columbus, Ohio USA . link
Now Showing – Exhibitions
Shelter in Place by Andrea Luke Zimmerman (2021) at SAW – Ottawa, Canada. link
So much I want to say by Mona Hatoum (1983) at Nitija Centre for Contemporary Art – Lillestrøm, Norway. link
Máthair by Keira Greene (2024) at Arnolfini – Bristol, UK. link
Janchi Guksu (Banquet Noodles) (2016) & Did You Eat Rice? (2017) By Ellie Kyungran Heo at Richmond Art Gallery – Richmond, BC Canada. link
LUX Artist News
Following the announcement of LUX Director Benjamin Cook’s departure, we want to reassure you that the Distribution team remains as dedicated as ever to supporting the artists we represent. We’re also excited to continue building and nurturing both new and long-standing relationships with those who support the work we do.
For any distribution-related enquiries or assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Hanan Coumal, Distribution Director
Sophia Musa, Distribution Manager
Click here to read more about Ben’s departure and his historic relationship with LUX.