Distribution News October 2024

October 8, 2024
A golden silhouette of a hijabi woman, stood on a lava-like floor, sky is blood red.

New Artist

An east asian man with short black hair, wearing a khaki jacket, a blue t-shirt and a pair of jeans, stood against a weathered cement wall

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)

FICValdivia – Valdivia, Chile 

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

A mother horse and her young foal lay in a dry, dead field, this field is strewn with rubbish and plastic waste.

 

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.

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