lau persijn

lau persijn is a Brussels-based filmmaker and co-founder of One Field Fallow (OFF), a queer collective and socio-cultural space in Brussels dedicated to artistic research, neighbourhood work and community work, and of ACAB Kino, a grassroots cinema in Brussels where solidarity, community and resistance are central. lau graduated from KASK School of Arts in Ghent with the film underneath it flickers. lau's film practice researches more-than-human ecologies and explores cinema as a medium for questioning and deconstructing dominant perspectives. underneath it flickers was selected for the Belgian Student Shorts Competition at Film Fest Gent and awarded the Prix du Jury for Jeune Cinéma Belge at Festival En Ville in Brussels. The film was screened at venues including Beursschouwburg, Het Bos, KASKcinema, La Bellone, Pianofabriek, RITCScinema, and WIELS.

lau persijn participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was lau persijn’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Messages Guy Sherwin United Kingdom 1984 34’
Poppies and Sailboats Voiliers et Coquelicots Rose Lowder France 2001 3’
Apiyemiyekî? Ana Vaz Brazil 2020 29’
Instructions on How to Make a Film Nazli Dinçel USA 2018 13’
Words, Planets Laida Lertxundi USA 2018 11’
The Girl Chewing Gum John Smith United Kingdom 1976 12’
Divinations Sarah Vanagt Belgium 2019 35’
Ink in Milk Gernot Wieland Austria 2018 13’
Amérika: Bahia de las Flechas Amérika: Bay of Arrows Ana Vaz Dominican Republic 2016 9’
The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast Forugh Farrokzhad Iran 1963 22’