1. LUX Scotland

Events

A dancer is blurred in motion as they circle the camera. Red, yellow and green ribbons stream down from their head piece as the circle of dancers they hold hands with is reflected in the dance studio mirror behind them. A pink logo reading "(ONE WORK)" in stamp-like lettering is overlaid on the centre of the image.

ONE WORK | Ayla Dmyterko, ‘Dance of the Fated Furies’ (2025)

Online Screening 9 September — 7 October 2026
A landscape film still. Deep indigo water fills the bottom half of the image fading into a lighter cloudy blue sky. There is a low angle silhouette of a figure, half submerged in the water, standing tall like a giant in the middle of the image.

Making Myth from the Margins I Workshop with Moira Salt

Workshop 16 September 2026
Composite Jarman 2026 shortlist stills. On the top left a semi transparent figure in coat and hat stands in front of a pebble dash wall and window. A VHS 'play' symbol and time code appear on the top right of the image. In the next image on the top right a figure in an elaborate gold, blue and orange carnival costume processes through a dark urban street. To the bottom right a vintage looking image of a woman sitting on an arm chair wearing a white dress and a pillbox hat with a veil and holding a bouquet of flowers smiles towards the camera. On the bottom right a mannequin wearing a blond wig and a white shirt is sillouetted against a smoky background there a man in a white shirt looks towards the mannequin.

Film London Jarman Award 2026 | Screening and Q&A with Rhea Storr

Screening 22 September 2026
A crowd of people fill the frame cheering and shouting towards the camera.

September Advice Sessions

Event 23 — 30 September 2026
A black-and-white image shows a hand reaching toward a probe microphone embedded in a bed of sphagnum moss. Dense vegetation fills the frame with low-light exposure and pronounced film grain.

Somatic Listening: Practices in Responsive Filmmaking | Workshop with Jess Holdengarde

Workshop 16 October 2026
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Writing

Caitlin Merrett King on Ayla Dmyterko's 'Dance of the Fated Furies'

Writing

Writer and curator Caitlin Merrett King's response to 'Dance of the Fated Furies' phases between critical enquiry and a narrative inundated with a pop cultural cache of emotion.

if four is a riot, it is also a congress: Cicely Farrer on MAXIMUM TILT

Writing

Cicely Farrer reflects on MAXIMUM TILT: a festival of artists’ moving image, responding to the festival format as a whole before identifying three thematic strands of the programme and unfolding them in relation to specific films. Cicely goes on to draw out the programme's provocations and questions how festivals can be spaces which sit with and hold contradiction.

'Dying images and queer utopian memory' | Ingrid Ryberg on Moving Images Within Precarious Structures

Writing

We invited author and director Ingrid Ryberg to respond to Moving Images Within Precarious Structures, framing the programme through her own research and filmmaking practice to consider how different modes of moving image and multiple layers of precarity demonstrate and resist the erasure and loss of intersecting cultural-political struggles.
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Projects

ONE WORK

ONE WORK is a regular online programme exploring contemporary moving image practice in Scotland and beyond.

Weekend Residential

LUX Scotland’s annual Weekend Residential brings together a small selected group of Scotland-based artists, curators, programmers and writers to explore some key questions in one lead artist’s practice through a programme of film screenings, group reading sessions, discussions and meals together over the course of one weekend.

International Collaborations

LUX Scotland works with a range of trusted international partners to deliver projects in Scotland and internationally.

MAXIMUM TILT

LUX Scotland and the University of St Andrews Department of Film Studies and Centre for Screen Cultures present a new festival during Midsummer 2026, programmed by Andrew Black and Anne-Marie Copestake.

We Contain Multitudes

We Contain Multitudes is a three-year collaborative project between Collective, DCA and LUX Scotland working towards creating systemic change in the Scottish arts sector for disabled visual artists and arts professionals.

Commissioning

LUX Scotland's commissions provide an opportunity for artists to create, develop or research new work in partnership with organisations across Scotland and the UK.

Defiling Rain

Between 2024 and 2026 the University of Edinburgh Art Collection and LUX Scotland have beeen working with artist Jamie Crewe to support the development of an ambitious new artwork, and the shaping of an innovative production and partnership model.

Festival Collaborations

LUX Scotland works in collaboration with national and international festivals to present the work of Scotland-based artists and bring the work of international artists to a Scottish audience.

Education, Research & Placements

LUX Scotland works with academic institutions and partners across Scotland to support doctoral research, work placements and fellowships.

Moving Images Within Precarious Structures

Moving Images Within Precarious Structures is an episodic programme of events starting from the proposition that precarity is a condition of artists’ moving image practice that structures not only the ways that moving image is resourced, produced and shared but also the aesthetic and political dimensions of artists’ work.

Film London Jarman Award Touring Programme

Since 2019, LUX Scotland has hosted an artist from the Film London Jarman Award for a special screening and in-conversation in Scotland.

Touring

LUX Scotland presents significant works by Scotland-based and International artists across Scotland as part of special touring programmes.
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