Director of Programs

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Lum has over two decades of extensive experience as a filmmaker, visual and media artist, and over ten years of experience as a researcher and cultural manager. He has worked with film, new media, and anthropologically informed media creation as a creative director, researcher, producer, and lecturer.

He holds a Masters in Visual and Media Anthropology (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology - Department of Political and Social Sciences) from Freie University in Berlin with highest grades. Prior to that he received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Arts and Sciences from Rochester Institute of Technology in Kosovo, where he lectures in new media studies, anthropology, film, and design.

During 2014-2017 studies situated within the subdiscipline of Digital Anthropology, he expanded on his ‘Dialectics and Aesthetics of Creating with the Digital - An Anthropology of Interface’ - a tempo-historic phenomenology - combination of multisited and sensory ethnographic research, digital ethnography, and interactive film project investigating the lives of digital artists and creators. Lum continues to examine the anthropology - art juncture through sensory, affective and participatory ethnographic methodologies, most recently with the research project under the title “Ontological Epistemologies - An Anthropology of Consciousness, Sentience, and Intimacy in the Thick of the AI Turn”.

As a scholar of EU’s and GoK’s YCS program, Lum joined the Kosovo Cinematography Center in 2019, to continue his contribution to the sector now also from within the institutions and where he has led the main film institution for two years (2021-2023). He is also a member of the European Film Academy.

Notable film and new media works include: “Machinima-film” (2016), “The numerous thoughts and things” - interactive film (2017), “Women of Liberty” (2018), "Gof" - filmworld (2019), “1990s’ School-Houses in Kosova” (2020) etc.