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DUSTIN LYNN
As a nomadic artist, filmmaker, and musician, Dustin Lynn has traversed the farthest corners of the earth. His work, bears the indelible mark of his travels to Cambodia, Jamaica, Kenya, and beyond. From collaborating with fellow artists, brands, and non profit organizations, through film, music and photography, Lynn reveals a profound understanding of place and the human experience, one that is shaped by his own wandering spirit and keen sense of observation.
Lynn, born in Oakland, California, embraced a nomadic upbringing across the United States. His internationally celebrated 16mm documentaries and experimental films tell a diverse and poetic tale. Over a decade, his films graced prestigious events – 'Official Selections' at The Tribeca Film Festival and New York Film Festival, with recognition at GenArt Film Festival and FilmStock International. Galleries like Karsten Greve showcased his works in Paris, Cologne, and St. Moritz.
Lynn began his filmmaking journey with professional surfer/filmmaker Chris Malloy, contributing to award-winning surf films. He later delved into the realm of fine arts, collaborating with artists such as Marina Abramovic and Gabriel Orozco. Lynn's cinematic prowess also extends to the echelons of the luxury industry, where he directed for esteemed brands like Alexander McQueen, LVMH, NOWNESS and soundtracking for Chanel through his hybrid dream-pop dub releases under the guise Dukes of Chutney on Beats In Space Records / RVNG Intl.
FILM VAULT
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In COLLABORATION with
ADIDAS AUTRE MARINA ABRAMOVIC INSTITUTE ALEXANDER MCQUEEN CHANEL TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
DUKES OF CHUTNEY MARINE QUÉMÉRÉ PAL ZILERI GLOBE INTERNATIONAL NOWNESS LVMH HENNESSY
FERNANDO APODACA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART BERNARDAUD MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART THE MALLOYS
GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE THE HOSPITAL GALLERY CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE TUTTO QUESTO SENTIRE FLO MORRISSEY
GLASSNOTE E RUSCHA V BEATS IN SPACE RECORDS RVNG INTL MGMT TIZIANO POPOLI WINDLE LONDON
THE MOONSHINE CONSPIRACY WOODSHED FILMS JOE G
SCULPT THE FUTURE FOUNDATION ADVENTURE ECOLOGY
PAUL ST. HILAIRE OXFAM INTERNATIONAL
FILMOGRAPHY
TRANQUIL MUSIC • 2001 • 9 minutes • Color/Black & White • 16mm
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
This debut follows a New York City deejay in the weeks leading up
to 9/11, as he makes his way to a summer party in Queens.
*Official Selection of The Tribeca Film Festival 2002.
*Official Selection of GenArt/Starbucks Salon New York 2006.
*Finalist in Delta Airlines Fly-In Movies 2007
THICKER THAN WATER • 2000 • 45 minutes • Color/Black & White • 16mm
Contributing Editor, Music Director - supplemental features
Surfing film / The Moonshine Conspiracy
SHELTER • 2001 • 40 minutes • Color/Black & White • 16mm
Contributing Editor, Music Director - supplemental features
Surfing film / The Moonshine Conspiracy
MAKE TRADE FAIR • 2004 • 3 minutes • Color • 16mm
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Academy Award Nominee, Minnie Driver, travels to Cambodia with
Oxfam International to investigate sweatshop labor.
THE HALFWAY TREE • 2004 • 15 minutes • Color • 16mm
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Composer
Professional surfer, Dan Malloy, finds a new perspective on travel, living and surfing, in Kingston, Jamaica.
*Winner of the Directors Choice Award at FilmStock International UK 2005.
*Official Selection of GenArt’s IGNITE Los Angeles 2005.
A BROKE DOWN MELODY • 2005 • 43 minutes • Color • 16mm
Creative Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Music Director
Follow a unique group of surfers from around the world who discover,
“the future of surfing will come from places you least expect.”
*Winner Best Cinematography Surfer Magazine Video Awards 2005
(Dave Holmcy, Dustin Lynn, Scott Soens and Dan Malloy)
MAJINI • 2005 • 18 minutes • Color • 16mm
Director of Photography
Fernando Apodaca’s haunting dream vignettes, filmed on Peter Beard’s
Hog Ranch, and Lake Turkana, Kenya.
* Winner Best Experimental Short The New York Film Festival 2006.
FAREWELL TO RUINS • 2005 • 15 minutes • Color • 16mm
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Experimental vignettes tell the story of an unknown girl as she travels
throughout the Mayan Riviera, accompanied by the audio diaries of Anias Nin.
*Official Selection of GenArt’s IGNITE Los Angeles 2006.
ONE MILLION FACES • 2006 • 1 minute • Black & White • 16mm
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
In Collaboration with Oxfam International, Amnesty International and Control Arms.Org,
the One Million Faces Campaign premiered at the United Nations Conference on Arms playing a roll
in 139 governments voting in favor of a UN resolution to start work towards an Arms Trade Treaty.
MAGNETIZING • 2007 • 4 minutes • Color/Black & White • 16mm
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Electronic music pioneers Peter Kruder (Peace Orchestra, Kruder & Dorfmeister)
and Roberto Di Gioia (Marsmobil), weave together pieces of a twisted dream story,
to the new single "Magnetizing" from Marsmobil’s Minx, album on G-Stone Recordings.
TOXICO (EIGHT REELS TO SHARAMENZA) • 2007 • 30 minutes • Color • 16mm
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Artist Gabriel Orozco, Adventurer Ecologist David de Rothschild, and Photographers Broomberg & Chanarin,
journey into the Ecuadorian Amazon,and the oil industry’s ecological disaster.
*The Hospital Gallery, London, UK, and *Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France.
CHASING TAILS • 2007 • 15 minutes • Color/Black & White • 16mm
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
A psychedelic travel companion on the art of getting lost in Katmandu, Nepal, by a flip of a coin.
THE UNEXPLAINABLE • Vogue Magazine • 2007 • 4 minutes • Color • 16mm
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
The Beastie Boys deal out the betting system, and its factors, in an Atlantic City casino.
SHOWREEL • 2007 • 6 minutes • Color/Black & White • 16mm
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Phantasmagoria sequence from 2001 - 2007
IWC / PLASTIKI EXHIBITION • 2008 • Various Short Films • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
A series of branded shorts documenting the production and adventure of the Plastiki Expedition.
UNTITLED TOKYO PROJECT • 2009 • 20 minutes • Black & White • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Tokyo New Wave essay film juxtaposing Japanese fish markets and a stateless sex worker.
NOWNESS / CORTO MOLTEDO’S POOL PARTY • 2010 • 2 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
A splashy film celebrating the Italian accessories brand’s new Milan boutique.
CORTO MOLTEDO’S SOLITARIA • 2011 • 13 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
A young girl’s intended day of solitude blossoms into a potential romance.
NOWNESS / DIVING FOR MCQUEEN • 2012 • 5 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Composer
The New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn meets Alexander McQueen Creative Director Sarah Burton at the
label’s Paris atelier to explore the house’s intricate, marine-inspired Spring/Summer 2012 collection.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN - OBSCURE DESIRES • 2012 • 3 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Composer
“Obscure Desires” originally premiered at the Old Selfridges Hotel in partnership with Alexander McQueen
and Selfridges, along side films by Christopher Doyle and Michael Pitt.
NOWNESS / HENNESSY V.S.O.P SHANGHAI DEBUT • 2012 • 5 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Composer
A short film for HENNESSY traversing their production from Bordeaux to Torino to Shanghai.
NOWNESS / COLLECTED HARMONY • 2012 • 4 minutes • Color • Film / Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Composer
A visual chronicle of Director Harmony Korine ahead of his Spring Breakers premier
at Venice International Film Festival.
MAI - MISFITS FOR THE TABLE • 2014 • 25 minutes • Color/Black & White • Digital
Director, Editor, Composer
A collaboration between Marina Abramovic, MoMA and Bernardaud.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC X ADIDAS • 2014 • 2 minutes • Black & White • Digital
Director, Composer
Pioneering performance artist Marina Abramovic has partnered with Adidas to produce a new film
which documents the re-enactment of one of her seminal works that was last performed in 1979.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC for MONA • 2014 • 2 minutes • Black & White • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Documentary short showcasing Marina Abramovic’s philosophy and experiences in Australia
for The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania.
STRANGE RUMBLINGS IN SHANGRI LA • 2014 • 60 minutes • Black & White • Digital
Contributing Cinematographer, Composer
A Surfing Documentary for Globe International.
FLO MORRISSEY - IF YOU CAN’T LOVE THIS ALL GOES AWAY • 2015 • 4 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Music Video / Glassnote Entertainment
OLIVIA SALVADORI - ISOLA • 2016 • 5 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Music Video / Sony Music Entertainment
CHANEL - PARIS IN ROME • 2016 • 6 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Short documentary for Chanel’s 13th Métiers d’Art show, Karl Lagerfeld took to the back lots of the famous
Cinecittà film studios in Rome to show the luxury brand’s pre-fall 2016 collection.
ONE NIGHT IN AMSTERDAM • 2017 • 24 minutes • Black & White • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
A reimagined tale of enigmatic performance artist Bas Jan Ader's final intended work.
PAL ZILARI - SS17 • 2017 • 2 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
A campaign film shot on location at the Ricardo Bofill-designed Muralla Roja complex in Calpe
on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Featuring Emmy Award winning actor Matthew Goode.
E RUSCHA V - WHO ARE YOU • 2017 • 5 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Music Video / RVNG. INTL
NOWNESS / MATERA ART RESIDENCY • 2018 • 7 minutes • Color/Black & White • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
A walk through the grounds of the rural Italian artist residency that inspired the work
of maestro filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.
E RUSCHA V - CARRIED AWAY • 2018 • 3 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Music Video / RVNG. INTL
DUKES OF CHUTNEY - LITTLE WAR • 2020 • 5 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Music Video / Beats In Space Records / RVNG. INTL
TIZIANO POPOLI - EVERY THOUGHT FLIES (TIME IS THE TEACHER) • 2021 • 18 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
A short documentary focusing on Italian minimalist Composer Tiziano Popoli,
and the travels that inspire his sound.
Music Video / RVNG. INTL
MARINE QUÉMÉRÉ - HÉICOÏDAL • 2022 • 5 minutes • Color • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Music Video / A L’ouest Records
MAI - NO INTERMISSION • 2022 • 7 minutes • Black & White • Digital
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Short film documentary for Marina Abramovic Institute examining the NO INTERMISSION
performances at the Royal Theater Carre, Amsterdam.
MGMT - PEOPLE IN THE STREETS • 2024 • 6 minutes • Color • Digital
Director of Photography, Lead Editor
Music Video / Mom + Pop Records
PHOTOGRAPHY
RECORDINGS
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