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Subject: LUX Distribution Newswire | October - 2025
Date: 21 October 2025 at 13:10:13 BST
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Month 2025	

	
LUX Distribution Newswire / October 2025	

Welcome to our October Newswire. We're thrilled to share upcoming screenings, festivals and exhibitions featuring LUX Artists and their work. This month, we've added an exciting variety of new works to our collection, including 'here and not here' by our featured artist, Andrea Luka Zimmerman. We're also celebrating Maeve Brennan, who received the FLAMIN Productions Award 2025. Finally, one of our new team members, Yassmine Betoui, has brought us a staff pick from the LUX Collection.

Featured Artist / Andrea Luka Zimmerman	

Andrea Luka Zimmerman is a Jarman Award-winning artist and filmmaker whose multi-layered practice explores fragile refusals and counter memories, itinerant lives, human and otherwise, in relation to structural and political injustice  Their latest work ‘here and not here’ (2025), filmed in the Occupied West Bank and Occupied Golan Heights as part of the A.M. Qattan Foundation’s ‘Ways of Traveling’ Residency 2020 – 2023 and inspired by the commitment of writer John Berger, dispatches from a place that both does and does not exist – a state in waiting, a geography beyond, but permanently besieged by conflict, the sites of pressured being and the willed spaces of dream, desire, imagination and resistance. This film diary celebrates not the ‘cruel optimism’ of a false hope but rather celebrates the lived experience of a profoundly precious yet always precarious ‘everyday life’. It was shown for the first time publicly at the Gaza Biennial Istanbul Pavilion on 11 October 2025.   Andrea's works have screened widely around the world including at Berlinale, Locarno, IDFA, Istanbul, BAFICI and IFFR festivals, as well as in cinemas, galleries, and community and activist spaces.   Selected exhibitions include 'Shelter in Place', Estuary Festival, 'Civil Rites', the London Open at Whitechapel Gallery, 'Common Ground' at Spike Island, and 'Real Estates' at Peer Gallery.
Selected writing includes extended essays in 'Brick', 'Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter', 'Open Democracy', (among others) and co-editing the books 'Estate: Art, Politics and Social Housing in Britain' (Myrdle Court Press) and 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness Trauma and Resistance' (House Sparrow Press).
Andrea co-founded the Wayfaring Cinema Collective and cultural collectives Fugitive Images and Vision Machine (collaborators on Academy Award® nominated feature documentary The Look of Silence).

Image credit Elam Forrester
 Read more about Andrea Luka Zimmerman here.
	
Other works by Andrea Luka Zimmerman in the LUX Collection include:	
 	
Wayfaring Stranger 2024	
 	
Shelter in Place 2021	
 	
Art Class 2020	
	
Featured Exhibition / Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica / MACBA, Barcelona, Spain	

Curated by MACBA director Elvira Dyangani Ose, along with Antawan Byrd, Adom Getachew and Matthew S. Witkovsky, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is the first major international exhibition to examine the cultural manifestations of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to the present.   The exhibition addresses the art of the African diaspora as an aesthetics of back and forth, between the artistic production of the African continent and the proposals of Black communities scattered throughout the world. Artists, writers and other cultural workers have reacted over more than a century to global histories of supremacy, conflict and rupture, including slavery, colonialism and racial discrimination, among others.    We are proud to have multiple LUX Artists represented in the exhibition and its public programme:  Exhibition:  Larry Achiampong Relic 1  The Otolith Group MASCON: A Massive Concentration Of Black Experiential Energy.    Grace Ndiritu Still Life – White Textiles  Screening:  John Akomfrah Testament 16 Jan 2026 | 7 pm | Meier Auditorium   The exhibition opens on the 6th of November and runs until the 7th of April 2026 at MACBA, in Barcelona, Spain.  Read more here.
	
Other exhibitions featuring LUX artists:	
 	
Ruth Maclennan at National Gallery of Art Vilnius Vilnius, Lithuania 7 Nov - 8 Feb 2026	
 	
Morgan Quaintance at Chelsea Space, Chelsea College or Arts London, UK 10 Oct - 12 Dec  	
 	
Onyeka Igwe at  Tate Britain London, UK 19 Sep - 17 May 2026  	
	
New Works	
 	
here and not there Andrea Luka Zimmerman	
Palestine/ UK | 2025 | 29 mins	
A poetics of expression that acknowledges the perennial challenges of Occupation while refusing the imposed, pejorative, partial and reductive mediatised definitions of a people under constant and escalating oppressions.	
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Penkelemes Onyeka Igwe	
UK/ Nigeria | 2025 | 18 mins	

Moving through the University of Ibadan’s tropical modernist architecture, the film explores the building’s personal and political histories. It presents many contradictory accounts of the place, blurring fiction with reality, analogue with digital, and fragmentation with unity.
	
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East Oakland Mike Dunford	
UK | 2025 | 9 mins	
On living on past dreams.	
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Forest Futures Uriel Orlow	
Italy/ Portugal/ Switzerland/ France | 2025 | 26 mins	
A thought-provoking film that visits ancient forest ecosystems from the earth’s past, imagines future forests in the face of changing climate and shows the forest as a multi-species school, where children practice more-than-human co-existence.	
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We Felt A Star Dying Laure Prouvost	
Belgium | 2025 | 26 mins	

This work navigates various entities and scales of reality, highlighting quantum as a shared feature of all matter, living or non-living, natural or artificial, near or far. Its journey begins in the installation, moving outward through carpet, cables and concrete.
	
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Concert From Bangladesh Shezad Dawood	
Bangladesh/ UK | 2021 | 43 mins	

A mixed reality music concert, using cutting edge technology to take audiences on a virtual audio-visual journey through Bangladesh past and present, encompassing mystical Baul singers from rural Kushtia, experimental electronics and hip hop from the streets of Dhaka, interspersed with archival and contemporary documentary footage.
	
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If you are interested in hiring these works, take a look at our 'How To Order' page here. If you have any questions, contact our Distribution team at distribution@lux.org.uk	
Now Showing	
A selection of screenings / festivals featuring LUX artists:   	
 	
Arwa Aburawah and Turab Shah at  Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center New York, USA 24 Oct	
 	
Beatrice Gibson at  Stichting wysiwyg The Hague, Netherlands 29 Oct	

Sandra Lahire at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain 2 Nov

 	
Maeve Brennan at ASWAT 2025 Beirut, Lebanon 5-8 Nov 2025	
 	
Ben Rivers at  Noordelijk Film Festival  Leeuwaarden, Netherlands 5 - 9 Nov	
 	
Emily Richardson, William Raban, Ben Rivers and Stan Brakhage at  The Garden Cinema London, UK 5 Nov	
	
LUX Artist News	
Maeve Brennan receives FLAMIN Productions Award 2025 	

Artist filmmaker Maeve Brennan has won this year's FLAMIN Productions Award to develop her new moving image project, 'Deep Storage'.   The work will excavate the layered histories embedded in the Winsford salt mine, the oldest and largest working mine in the UK. With a naturally occurring dry atmosphere and consistent ambient temperature perfect for the preservation of paper, parts of the salt mine have been converted into a deep storage facility, holding materials from the National Archives and The Royal Society alongside police records and treasured works of art. Through a forensic lens, Deep Storage will capture what is deemed worth preserving, while imagining a possible future in which these artefacts are discovered.     'Deep Storage' will be produced by LUX. It will be supported by Site Gallery, Sheffield, Sonic Arts, Amsterdam and LUX, and will premiere at Site Gallery in 2027.
	
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Staff Pick	
 	
The Illinois Parables Deborah Stratman	
	
USA | 2016 | 59 mins  'I’ve never been to Illinois, nor do I know much about the place, but Stratman’s film slowly excavates layers of history hidden in plain sight, examining America’s past(s) through allegory. The choreography between land and bodies feels both magnetic and mysterious. You can’t help but become absorbed.'  - Yassmine Betoui, Archive Assistant	
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