Violent tendencies and good table manners are never far apart in the films of Mari Terashima. Her work often plays on the double meaning of “taste”— both a marker of refinement and class, and a violent expression of the desire to consume. From a bloodthirsty toy dog with a penchant for fine dining, to a troupe of self-mutilating, tea party-hosting aristocrats, the three films in this collection, made between 1986 and 2009, combine eccentric characters with imagery at once abject and delicious.

When Hiroyuki Oki (1964-2025) passed away suddenly late last year, Japan lost one of its most singular and tireless artist-filmmakers. His amorphous work, traversing documentary and fiction, frequently harnessed smaller, more intimate forms of cinema (8mm, 16mm, video, the home movie) for their unique potential. This program brings together four such ‘small’ works—short films in which a direct mode of filmmaking comes to express a sense of erotic desire and longing.

As part of LUX's current exhibition 'Narrative Warfare', Jordan Lord presents a screening programme bringing together works by Finnegan Shannon and Louise Hickman, Tiffany Sia, Miranda Pennell and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa.