LAGO25 JURY
Argentine-British artist filmmaker, Jessica Sarah Rinland is a recipient of numerous prizes including Best International Film at Cinéma du Réel, and Documenta Madrid for Collective Monologue, Special Mention at Locarno Film Festival for Those That, At A Distance, Resemble Another, and MIT’s Schnitzer prize for excellence in the arts.
Her most recent solo exhibition was at Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain, subsequently traveling to Katoenhuis, Rotterdam. She has had retrospectives of her films at Flaherty Film Seminar, Anthology Film Archives, Open City Documentary Film Festival, Doc’s Kingdom, London Short Film Festival, among others.
She has participated in residencies including Film Studies Center at Harvard University, Somerset House Studios, MacDowell, and Ikusmira Berriak. Her films are held at the British Film Institute.
LEMOHANG JEREMIAH MOSESE
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is a filmmaker and visual artist hailing from Hlotse, Leriba, Lesotho. His works are a complex investigation of identity and its amorphous quality in relation to time. Indeed, Mosese’s art is a layered exploration of the physical cycles of life, death and rebirth in relation to human subjectivity.
A self-taught filmmaker, his feature-length, visual essay film Mother, I am Suffocating, This is My Last Film About You, was selected for Final Cut in Venice, winning six awards. It premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2019 and continues to be showcased in film festivals and exhibitions, including Moma, BOZAR Brussels, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, and SAVVY Contemporary as a three channel video installation. Mosese was one of three filmmakers selected for Biennale Cinema College with his first narrative feature film, This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection, which won over 30 awards, including the Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking at Sundance Film Festival 2020. The film garnered critical acclaim including glowing reviews in the New York Times and L.A times.
Mosese has also worked as a visual artist, creating installations for various distinguished art institutions. His most recent work, a seven-channel video installation entitled Bodies of Negroes: Sculpting God commissioned by Eye Museum, was shown at several exhibitions including Eye Museum and Tabakalera, International Centre of Contemporary Culture. His four channel video installation entitled, New God, commissioned by Humboldt Forum, was shown in Dak’Art Biennale 2022.
Mosese served as an official juror for several film festivals, including the Berlinale International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Locarno, Eye Museum and San Sebastian Film Festival. He has been invited to be a guest lecturer for several institutions including Cambridge University’s Masters in Writing for Performance, Netherlands Film Academy Masters Program, German Film and Television Academy Berlin and The Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg.
EMMANUEL LEFRANT
Experimental filmmaker and film programmer, Emmanuel Lefrant is for the past 15 years the director of Light Cone, a Paris-based non-profit organization whose aim is the distribution, promotion and preservation of experimental cinema in France and around the world. Its catalogue represents, in terms of its volume and completeness, one of the most valuable and important collections of experimental and avant-garde films in Europe and the world. Thanks to constant expansion, the collection now includes more than 7,000 films and videos, from 1895 to the present day, made by more than 900 film artists from around the world.