A small journal about moving images, and the people who make them.

Lumen began in 2021 as a place to put the things we kept making for each other: short films shot on quiet afternoons, interviews recorded over bad coffee, essays we wrote to figure out what we thought about a piece we'd just seen.

We're a team of five — three filmmakers, a writer, and an editor who insists on a real lunch break. We publish roughly twice a month, never on a schedule you can predict, always on something we'd want to read ourselves.

We don't chase trends or write to an algorithm. We make work for people who still believe that a five-minute film can change the weather of a morning, and that a good question, asked patiently, is worth more than a thousand hot takes.