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DUSTIN LYNN
His films—often shot on 16mm—have emerged from extended periods of immersion in locations including Cambodia, Jamaica, Kenya, Ecuador and coastal North Africa. Rather than document from a distance, Lynn works through proximity, patience, and observation, allowing behavior, landscape, and sound to carry meaning without explanation. His cinema is marked by an interest in untrained intelligence, informal economies, and the moral structures that exist outside institutional systems.
Lynn’s work has screened internationally, including Official Selections at the Tribeca Film Festival and New York Film Festival, with additional recognition from GenArt and FilmStock International. His films and photographic works have been exhibited by Galerie Karsten Greve in Paris, Cologne, and St. Moritz.
He began his filmmaking career collaborating with surfer and filmmaker Chris Malloy, before expanding into the fine art world through projects with artists such as Marina Abramović and Gabriel Orozco. Parallel to his film work, Lynn has directed and composed for fashion and cultural platforms including Alexander McQueen, LVMH, NOWNESS, Adidas and Chanel. As a musician, he releases under the name Dukes of Chutney, blending dream-pop, dub, and ambient structures.
Across mediums, Lynn’s work resists spectacle in favor of presence, and narrative in favor of consequence—seeking, above all, to register how people inhabit the worlds they are given.