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.
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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’ | ||