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Watch Now! ‘The Silver Wave’ (2020) by Michelle Williams Gamaker, now streaming online from 8 - 15 January 2025. We’re h...
08/01/2025

Watch Now! ‘The Silver Wave’ (2020) by Michelle Williams Gamaker, now streaming online from 8 - 15 January 2025.

We’re happy to share Michelle Williams Gamaker’s short film as we near the end of the online exhibition: Imaginary Escape.

Inspired by objects from the Arctic region in RAMM’s collection, Michelle Williams Gamaker tells the story of Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat woman from Nome, Alaska, who became the sole survivor of a doomed expedition to Russia’s Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, which aimed to claim the island for the British Empire.

As the four men Ada travelled with fell ill and eventually died or disappeared in an attempt to seek help, she was left alone on the island. Ada’s diary of this ill-fated voyage, are filled with thoughts of her young son Bennet, who she had had to leave behind in a care home. Extracts from this diary provide the dialogue to the film read by Iñupiat poet and writer Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen, from the Ugiuvamiut tribe.

Captioned version of the film is available.

How to Watch:
- Registered viewers: Check your inbox for the reminder with a link or revisit your original registration email.
- New viewers: Register via the link in bio to receive instant access.

Image: stills from ‘The Silver Wave’, Michelle Williams Gamaker, 2020
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Watch Now! ‘Kings Of The Sky’ (2004) by Deborah Stratman, now live and available to stream online from 19 December 2024 ...
19/12/2024

Watch Now! ‘Kings Of The Sky’ (2004) by Deborah Stratman, now live and available to stream online from 19 December 2024 – 7 January 2025

Our third screening in the online exhibition: Imaginary Escape is Deborah Stratman’s 2004 feature film, ‘Kings Of The Sky’.

The film follows tightrope artist Adil Hoxur as he and his troupe tour China’s Taklamakan desert amongst the Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim people seeking religious and political autonomy. Adil descends from a long line of Dawaz (tightrope) performers. Since he first broke the Guinness World Record in 1997, Adil has become an inadvertent national icon for his people’s struggle, bearing uncanny resemblance to the Dawaz hero of an old Uyghur myth who once freed his countrymen from an oppressive reign of invading ghosts, an apt metaphor for the ongoing tension between the Uyghurs and the Han Chinese.

Captioned version of the film is available.

How to Watch:
- Registered viewers: Check your inbox for the reminder with a link or revisit your original registration email.
- New viewers: Register via the link in bio to receive instant access.

Image: stills from ‘Kings Of The Sky’, Deborah Stratman, 2011


   

LUX Winter Break Notice! Our team will be on a winter break from 23 December to 3 January 2025.Important Dates to Note:D...
12/12/2024

LUX Winter Break Notice!

Our team will be on a winter break from 23 December to 3 January 2025.

Important Dates to Note:

DISTRIBUTION
Booking requests will be processed until 16 December 2024. Requests made after this date will be handled after 6 January 2025.

SHOP
Place your orders by 18 December 2024 to ensure dispatch before the holidays. Orders made after this date will ship after 8 January 2025.

Wishing you a joyful holiday season!

Watch Now! ‘rial & tERROR’ (2011) by Gelare Khoshgozaran, now live and available to stream online from 11 - 18 December ...
11/12/2024

Watch Now! ‘rial & tERROR’ (2011) by Gelare Khoshgozaran, now live and available to stream online from 11 - 18 December 2024

How to Watch:
- Registered viewers: Check your inbox for the reminder with a link or revisit your original registration email.
- New viewers: Register via the link in bio to receive instant access.

Our second screening in the online exhibition: Imaginary Escape is Gelare Khoshgozaran’s early video work, ‘rial & tERROR’ (2011).

Through its anagrammatical title and anachronistic structure, ’rial & tERROR’ creates a fragmented, cross-generational narrative of the Iranian diaspora through moments of collective loss, longing and violent disruption.

The video collage comprises pre-revolutionary Iranian TV commercials of Western commodities, Iranian 1960s psychedelic rock music, pirated tapes of American 1980s pop music videos distributed as contraband in post-revolutionary Iran, and home video. A central question to this experimental video is how the notion of pleasure is shaped through imperial, military and state violence.

Captioned version of the film is available.

Image: stills from ‘rial & tERROR’ Gelare Khoshgozaran, 2011


From Thursday 5/12 until Thursday 19/12 the LUX Bookshop is celebrating the season with our annual Winter Sale.It’s the ...
05/12/2024

From Thursday 5/12 until Thursday 19/12 the LUX Bookshop is celebrating the season with our annual Winter Sale.

It’s the perfect time to curl up under a blanket and dive into nostalgic, cozy vibes with some of your favourite moving image works on DVD. Or treat your family, lover, friend or yourself to one of our many publications! Discover treasures like 'Shoot Shoot Shoot', exploring the history of the London Film Coop, or immerse yourself in the poetic writings of Orcadian film-poet Margaret Tait in 'Subject Sequences' and 'Personae', alongside many other captivating publications.

Head to our website to discover our biggest discounts to date!

60% off LUX publications
DVDs for just £7 each
Special offers: Buy 3 DVDs, get 1 free, or buy 5 DVDs and get 2 free!

Don’t forget to leave us a note at the check out with your prefered free LUX DVD(s) and we will try our best to accommodate your request!

Prefer to shop in person? Visit us at the Cafe OTO Xmas Fair on 15/12, where we’ll have a stall brimming with a fantastic selection just for you!

Image description: Turquoise lettering over a pond with lily pads in soft grey-blue tones. Light reflects off the water, creating star-like glimmers, with a distortion running through the image, all framed by a matching grey-blue border.

Congratulations to LUX artist Maryam Tafakory for winning the Jarman Award 2024!On behalf of the jury, Matthew Barringto...
04/12/2024

Congratulations to LUX artist Maryam Tafakory for winning the Jarman Award 2024!

On behalf of the jury, Matthew Barrington of Barbican Centre said “Tafakory’s innovative blend of reality and fiction through visual poetry, symbolism and archival compilation firmly establishes her as a worthy winner of the Jarman Award, showcasing an artistic voice that is both profound and essential.”

Maryam’s practice centres underrepresented stories that “talk about what has always been buried in plain sight”, refusing to fall into binary traps glorifying or condemning Iranian cinema. In a series she describes as “a rage against the machine”, Maryam constructs poignant films mixing archival footage and original narratives. ‘Films were an escape from - to a deeper repression’ Jarman Winner Maryam Tafakory on Iranian cinema in an interview by Saeed Kamali Dehghan at The Guardian.

To learn more about Maryam’s works featured in the exhibition read Elhum Shakerifar’s essay on Maryam for her exhibition ‘I want to tell you what I can’t’ which we presented at LUX in 2023.

Photo credits in order:

1. Portrait photo of Maryam by

2. Still from ‘Nazarbazi نظربازى' courtesy of Maryam Tafakory.

3. Image from ‘I want to tell you what I can’t’ exhibition courtesy of LUX

4. Still from ‘Razeh-del رازدل' courtesy of Maryam Tafakory.



Watch Now! ‘At Home But Not at Home’ (2019) by Suneil Sanzgiri is now live and available to stream online from 3–10 Dece...
03/12/2024

Watch Now! ‘At Home But Not at Home’ (2019) by Suneil Sanzgiri is now live and available to stream online from 3–10 December 2024

Part of online exhibition: Imaginary Escape

How to Watch:
- Registered viewers: Check your inbox for the reminder with a link or revisit your original registration email.
- New viewers: Register via the link in bio to receive instant access.

About the film:
“After spending years thinking about questions of identity, liberation, and the movement of people across space and time, I find myself returning to this period in search of moments of anti-colonial solidarity across continents. My research took me from the shores of Goa, to Indonesia, Mozambique, and Angola, finding brief links between nascent liberation movements and my father’s biography.” – Suneil Sanzgiri

Captioned version of the film is available.

Image: stills from ‘At Home But Not at Home’, Suneil Sanzgiri, 2019.


Upcoming Online Exhibition: Imaginary Escape3 December 2024 to 15 January 2025We’re thrilled to announce Imaginary Escap...
21/11/2024

Upcoming Online Exhibition: Imaginary Escape
3 December 2024 to 15 January 2025

We’re thrilled to announce Imaginary Escape, a seven week online exhibition showcasing four films by artists newly added to the LUX Collection.

As we became immersed in these artists’ practices, we were drawn to the ways each grapples with the fractured worlds in the wake of colonialism and state violence, where one must navigate between loss and liberation.

For this programme, we selected early and recent works from these artists that challenge and reframe the narratives of these worlds through unique moving image practices. The title, Imaginary Escape, draws from a line in Suneil Sanzgiri’s At Home But Not at Home, reflecting the power of imagination in resistance and survival.

Films in the Programme + screening schedule:

3 - 10 December
‘At Home But Not at Home’ (2019) by Suneil Sanzgiri

11 - 18 December
‘rial & tERROR’ (2011) by Gelare Khoshgozaran

19 December - 7 January
‘Kings Of The Sky’ (2004) by Deborah Stratman

8 - 15 January
‘The Silver Wave’ (2020) by Michelle Williams Gamaker

Learn more about the online exhibition here: https://lux.org.uk/event/imaginary-escape/

Register now for access and timely updates: https://mailchi.mp/lux/imaginary-escape

Our physical space in Waterlow Park, London, will be closed to the public until March 2025 to allow for essential buildi...
15/11/2024

Our physical space in Waterlow Park, London, will be closed to the public until March 2025 to allow for essential building work and internal development.
 
Gallery and Conservatory
During this period, both our Gallery and Conservatory will remain closed, but our Public Programme will continue online. Please follow our website, social media channels, and subscribe to our newswire for updates on new online offerings.
 
Library
Our Library will be closed temporarily, and we are unable to host research visits to the Library or bookings for the Mediatheque.
For inquiries regarding research into our Collection, please contact us at previewing[at]lux.org.uk.
 
Shop
Our physical shop will be closed but you can still order books and DVDs online.  
 
Please note, we won’t be able to take any phone calls for two weeks from 28 November to 12 December 2024.
 
We look forward to welcoming you back soon and thank you for your understanding and continued engagement with LUX.

Read & Listen to our latest New Artist Focus essay by Laura Guy on LUX artist Jamie Crewe’s work, available on the LUX W...
04/11/2024

Read & Listen to our latest New Artist Focus essay by Laura Guy on LUX artist Jamie Crewe’s work, available on the LUX Website. The essay responds to the artists moving image practice with a particular focus on the feminine subject in flight and the way feminine agency is conceived through technologies and regimes of spectatorship in Crewe’s work.

“A restless dialectic of making (the forging of agency) and dissolution (of narrative and image) is persistent within Crewe’s videos. Very often, dissolution offers escape though the terms – and extent – of this escape are ambiguous.” - Laura Guy

Read via link in our bio.

Jamie Crewe’s moving image works are in distribution through LUX. Enquire via our website.

Images:
1: Teleny (2015)

Image courtesy of the artist.



LUX is delighted to welcome Lawrence Lek and his work to the LUX collection.London-based Malaysian Chinese artist Lawren...
30/10/2024

LUX is delighted to welcome Lawrence Lek and his work to the LUX collection.

London-based Malaysian Chinese artist Lawrence Lek unites filmmaking, video games, and electronic music in a singular cinematic universe. He is best known for advancing the concept of Sinofuturism with immersive installations that explore spiritual and existential themes through the lens of science fiction. Featuring la rotating cast of nomadic characters, his works are noted for their dreamlike narratives, evocative imagery, and preoccupation with technology and memory. Lek is represented by Sadie Coles HQ.

We proudly now distribute 18 works by Lek, produced since 2014. If you would like to hire any of these works, please get in touch with our distribution team via the LUX website.

Portrait credit: Portrait by Nishant Shukla. photo credit


Last two weeks to experience Sulaïman Majali’s solo exhibition, featuring Majali’s Margaret Tait film commission ‘in the...
25/10/2024

Last two weeks to experience Sulaïman Majali’s solo exhibition, featuring Majali’s Margaret Tait film commission ‘in the house of names’.

Walking through stages one to four of sleep, the film is inhabited by (and inhabits) an ‘impossible protagonist’. Amidst the land-mind-body disintegration of the dream as a site and realm of exile, this impossible protagonist forms a vehicle and question in the work, escaping language to think out of time with the image.

‘in the house of names’ will be accompanied by captions and audio description by Collective Text.

Screening Schedule
(Duration: 70 minutes)

12pm – 1:10pm
Lunch Break 1:30 – 2pm
2pm – 3:10pm
3:30pm – 4:40pm

Image: Installation view of Sulaïman Majali: ‘in the house of names’ at LUX London.
Image Description: In a dimmed gallery is a large projection of a serene sunset or sunrise over a body of water, the sun, low on the horizon, is obscured in mists or clouds. The horizon blends into the sky. Some reeds emerge above the still waters surface in the foreground. In the background some trees appear through the mist on the edge of the water. 


Job Opportunity: DirectorWe are looking for an experienced strategic and operational leader to guide our ogranisation in...
18/10/2024

Job Opportunity: Director

We are looking for an experienced strategic and operational leader to guide our ogranisation into its next chapter! If you want to make a significant contribution to supporting artists and advocating for artists’ moving image in the UK, this is your chance.

We need someone with:
- Proven leadership and strategic experience
- Excellent communication & negotiation skills
- A passion for equity, equality and the public arts sector

Please visit our website for the Director Application Pack with full details and how to apply. https://lux.org.uk/about/jobs/

Deadline: 5pm on on 18th November 2024

If you have any particular access needs or need any help applying or questions that are not answered in this recruitment pack then please contact us at [email protected]

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Visit the LUX library to watch our digital collection and peruse a wide array of books on film that span decades, border...
12/10/2024

Visit the LUX library to watch our digital collection and peruse a wide array of books on film that span decades, borders and genres 📚

You can check out what’s in the library via the link in our bio. We’ve tagged books by time period and subject matter to make it more functional as a research tool, and we have some great niche titles and new donations coming in all the time. A recent highlight is the PaIestine Film Directory, Eslam Saqqa, 2024 published by the PaIestine Film Institute

The LUX Library also offers a computer with a headset in order to watch DVDs and provide visitors with digital access to the LUX Collection The Cinenova Collection

The LUX Collection is the UK’s largest collection of artists’ moving image by more than 1000 international artists, with over 6,000 works.
The collection has works dating from the 1920s to the present, and it continues to grow with the addition of new works by contemporary artists and restorations of historic works.

Important to note that not all works in the collection are digitised or available to view at short notice. If you want to be sure a certain work will be available to view, please contact [email protected] prior to your visit.

If you want to browse the LUX Collection catalogue please visit our website - you can filter your search by theme, year, title, or artist.

The LUX Library is open during the regular opening hours for the public:
Friday - Sunday
From April to October: 12 - 5pm
From November to March: 12 - 4pm
With a lunch break close 1.30-2pm

Online Screening: ‘in the house of names’ by Sulaïman Majali from 8 to 22 October on the LUX website!We are excited to s...
08/10/2024

Online Screening: ‘in the house of names’ by Sulaïman Majali from 8 to 22 October on the LUX website!

We are excited to share exhibiting artist Sulaïman Majali’s film ‘in the house of names’ online for two week from 8 October to 22 October 2024.

This special screening is part of Majali’s solo exhibition currently on view at LUX London until 3 November 2024.

‘in the house of names’ is a moving image work that takes the clown and the magician as devices to consider the liberatory. The work applies the poetic and conceptual strategies of the crease and the fold to move through the fugitive geography of a sleep cycle.

This online screening will be accompanied by captions and audio description by Collective Text.

Watch the film at the link in bio. 

Image credit: ‘in the house of names’, Sulaïman Majali, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Image description: An image looking down on a valley, in the foreground are yellow grasses and small trees, a figure in dark clothes sits on the ground with their back to us. A small town in the distance occupies the middle of the valley floor surrounded by organised groves of trees. Hills rise in the distance in sharp contrast as if the sun is low. The sky is a hazy blue.


Sulaïman Majali’s solo exhibition, ‘in the house of names’, is now open and running at LUX until 3 November! Here are so...
03/10/2024

Sulaïman Majali’s solo exhibition, ‘in the house of names’, is now open and running at LUX until 3 November! Here are some details to help you plan your visit.

Film Details
The exhibition features a 70 minute film, screened three times daily, with captions available for all screenings.

Screening Schedule:
Screening 1: 12:00pm – 1:10pm
Closed for Lunch Break: 1:30pm – 2:00pm
Screening 2: 2:00pm – 3:10pm
Screening 3: 3:30pm – 4:40pm

Audio descriptions are available via Bluetooth headphones. Just ask our friendly Front of House team for help connecting and using this service.

Sensory note: the film contains flashing lights throughout.

If you have any specific access requirements or questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at +44 020 3141 2960 or via email at [email protected].

Opening Hours:�Friday to Sunday, 12:00pm – 5:00pm

We look forward to welcoming you!

Presented with LUX Scotland


Image description: A snake with mottled black, brown and white markings moving down grey stone outdoor stairs. The stairs are dusted with green leaves and plant matter with five oranges of varying shades of orange dotted around the snake. The ornate balustrade of the stairs is crumbling, with dust, dirt and plants creeping out of the cracks.

Read & Listen to our latest New Artist Focus essay by Jade Foster on LUX artist Alberta Whittle’s work, available on the...
02/10/2024

Read & Listen to our latest New Artist Focus essay by Jade Foster on LUX artist Alberta Whittle’s work, available on the LUX Website. The essay responds to the artists moving image practice with a particular focus on the film ‘Lagareh’ – The Last Born (2022) and highlights the film’s different relationships to disorientation.

“It is ’Lagareh’s’ polyphonic texture, in particular, that causes the distinction between the author, narrator, and performer’s voice to dissipate. Lines are blurred and then amorphously remoulded—this is the artistry of disorientation. The discombobulation, accumulating at the work’s technical midpoint, brings our attention to fluctuating states of stability and instability, what is lost and then returned. Even if potentially unintended by the artist, disorientation as an aesthetic and methodology is key to Whittle’s filmmaking.” - Jade Foster

Read via link in bio

Alberta Whittle’s moving image works are in distribution through LUX. Enquire via our website.

Images:
1-2: ‘Lagareh’ The Last Born (2022)
3: What is a better life (exorcised in the middle) (2021)
4: The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers (2022)

All images courtesy of the artist.
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