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"This clip is the second in a series excerpted from ""Concealed and Denied,"" a short archival documentary without any archival footage. Instead, I restate what the subjects say in media appearances in my own voice, and describe what you're not seeing.

In this clip, I describe ""Diamond in the Dunes,"" a documentary Christopher Rufo directed and broadcast nationally on PBS in 2014, and how a voiceover speaks for Uyghur subjects whose onscreen words Rufo doesn't translate.

Before today's culture wars, Rufo made documentary films. The techniques he used to silence his subjects on screen would continue as a key tactic in his propaganda campaigns to infiltrate the national conversation.

""Concealed and Denied"" opens tonight at @luxmovingimage, as part of my ""Narrative Warfare"" exhibition, which runs until May 31, 2026. It is screening @prismaticground in New York next month.

#ConcealedAndDenied #JordanLord #documentary #essayfilm #experimentalfilm"

This clip is the first in a series excerpted from "Concealed and Denied," a short archival documentary without any archival footage. Instead, I restate what the subjects say in media appearances in my own voice, and describe what you're not seeing.

In this clip, I describe Christopher Rufo's appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight in September 2020—the moment he first called on Trump to ban critical race theory from the federal government—and a podcast host's recap of what followed and Rufo's right-wing political strategy. Here, a single cable news appearance became a federal executive action in three days.

"Concealed and Denied" is installed at @luxmovingimage, as part of my "Narrative Warfare" exhibition, which runs from April 11–May 31, 2026. It is screening @prismaticground in New York next month.

#ConcealedAndDenied #JordanLord #documentary #essayfilm #experimentalfilm #blockedandreported

Online Workshop: Reading and Listening: Media Literacy Lab with Jordan Lord and Tiffany Sia

Date: Sunday 24 May 2026
Time: 2-4pm BST
Online [Zoom]

Led by artists and filmmakers Jordan Lord and Tiffany Sia, this media literacy lab accompanies Lord’s exhibition “Narrative Warfare” and Sia’s film ‘Do Not Circulate’ (2022) and continues an ongoing project developed in Lord’s practice in collaboration with Sia.

The session asks how we might reframe questions of media literacy drawing on questions that have animated their shared work:

- how narratives are constructed, weaponised, and contested across documentary, news media, and state-produced imagery
- what it means to read these forms under conditions in which the production of reality itself is at stake

Starting from the notion that access practices such as audio description and captioning are themselves forms of reading, we will consider how access is both a precondition and means of media literacy.

We will examine how state powers mediate access to audiovisual documents of violence, including those that nation-states produce and circulate as instruments of domination.

- This online workshop is free but registration is required. Link in bio.
- Capacity is limited.

Live captioning and BSL interpretation are available upon request. Please contact events@lux.org.uk by Monday 19 May 2026

@jrd_lord @t1ffany4scal3

Online Workshop: Reading and Listening: Media Literacy Lab with Jordan Lord and Tiffany Sia

Date: Sunday 24 May 2026
Time: 2-4pm BST
Online [Zoom]

Led by artists and filmmakers Jordan Lord and Tiffany Sia, this media literacy lab accompanies Lord’s exhibition “Narrative Warfare” and Sia’s film ‘Do Not Circulate’ (2022) and continues an ongoing project developed in Lord’s practice in collaboration with Sia.

The session asks how we might reframe questions of media literacy drawing on questions that have animated their shared work:

- how narratives are constructed, weaponised, and contested across documentary, news media, and state-produced imagery
- what it means to read these forms under conditions in which the production of reality itself is at stake

Starting from the notion that access practices such as audio description and captioning are themselves forms of reading, we will consider how access is both a precondition and means of media literacy.

We will examine how state powers mediate access to audiovisual documents of violence, including those that nation-states produce and circulate as instruments of domination.

- This online workshop is free but registration is required. Link in bio.
- Capacity is limited.

Live captioning and BSL interpretation are available upon request. Please contact events@lux.org.uk by Monday 19 May 2026

@jrd_lord @t1ffany4scal3

Read and listen to Louise Hickman’s new text on LUX artist Jordan Lord’s work, now on our website.

This New Artist Focus essay considers Lord’s embedded access-building practice, offering insight into how captioning and audio description operate as practical, aesthetic and political forms within a wider disability arts context.

As Hickman writes: “Lord’s work is a pooling of resources that has both an aesthetic and narrative strategy. Their filmmaking practice builds captioning and audio description into their filmmaking. This commitment, present across Lord’s work, challenges the tendency to treat disability as an object of documentation, narrowly focusing on the symptoms of sickness and disability through a medical lens.”

Read via the link in our bio.

Jordan Lord’s work is distributed through LUX. To view, enquire via our website. Their exhibition ‘Narrative Warfare’ featuring their most recent work ‘Concealed and Denied’ is on at LUX until 31st May.

Image 1: Shared Resources, 2021
Image 2:  After… After… (Access), 2018
Image 3: After… After… (Access), 2018

All images courtesy of the artist.
@jrd_lord @louhicky #JordanLord #LouiseHickman #NewArtistFocus

Read and listen to Louise Hickman’s new text on LUX artist Jordan Lord’s work, now on our website.

This New Artist Focus essay considers Lord’s embedded access-building practice, offering insight into how captioning and audio description operate as practical, aesthetic and political forms within a wider disability arts context.

As Hickman writes: “Lord’s work is a pooling of resources that has both an aesthetic and narrative strategy. Their filmmaking practice builds captioning and audio description into their filmmaking. This commitment, present across Lord’s work, challenges the tendency to treat disability as an object of documentation, narrowly focusing on the symptoms of sickness and disability through a medical lens.”

Read via the link in our bio.

Jordan Lord’s work is distributed through LUX. To view, enquire via our website. Their exhibition ‘Narrative Warfare’ featuring their most recent work ‘Concealed and Denied’ is on at LUX until 31st May.

Image 1: Shared Resources, 2021
Image 2:  After… After… (Access), 2018
Image 3: After… After… (Access), 2018

All images courtesy of the artist.
@jrd_lord @louhicky #JordanLord #LouiseHickman #NewArtistFocus

Read and listen to Louise Hickman’s new text on LUX artist Jordan Lord’s work, now on our website.

This New Artist Focus essay considers Lord’s embedded access-building practice, offering insight into how captioning and audio description operate as practical, aesthetic and political forms within a wider disability arts context.

As Hickman writes: “Lord’s work is a pooling of resources that has both an aesthetic and narrative strategy. Their filmmaking practice builds captioning and audio description into their filmmaking. This commitment, present across Lord’s work, challenges the tendency to treat disability as an object of documentation, narrowly focusing on the symptoms of sickness and disability through a medical lens.”

Read via the link in our bio.

Jordan Lord’s work is distributed through LUX. To view, enquire via our website. Their exhibition ‘Narrative Warfare’ featuring their most recent work ‘Concealed and Denied’ is on at LUX until 31st May.

Image 1: Shared Resources, 2021
Image 2:  After… After… (Access), 2018
Image 3: After… After… (Access), 2018

All images courtesy of the artist.
@jrd_lord @louhicky #JordanLord #LouiseHickman #NewArtistFocus

Concealed and Denied
(Jordan Lord, 2026, 35min)
This archival documentary (without archival footage) remediates primary sources of an American right-wing political strategist’s rise within the Republican establishment in the context of his origins as a “leftist documentary filmmaker.” Audio describing the films he made for broadcast on PBS and continues to release on his Youtube channel, while denying their original sound or images, the film examines the usefulness of documentary infrastructures to right-wing media strategy in waging culture war, from alarmingly successful attacks on critical race theory, DEI, and Black women in positions of leadership to the US government’s mass deportation campaign.— @jrd_lord

The Glass Booth
(Jenny Brady, 2026, 33min)
In her new experimental moving image work The Glass Booth, artist Jenny Brady casts a cinematic gaze on the figure of the interpreter, exploring the interpreting profession and the contemporary landscape of interpretation. Through vignettes set in both extreme and familiar environments, the film portrays the processes of listening, speaking, and forgetting within acts of formal and informal interpretation. This film is a study of the complex, intersubjective nature of interpreters’ work, placing them at the centre, rather than intermediaries that blend into the background. Brady seeks to illuminate the interpretive act – an elaborate, sensory process of listening, decoding and responding. — @aislingclark

🎟️🌐 Tickets and full program guide at prismaticground.com

Concealed and Denied
(Jordan Lord, 2026, 35min)
This archival documentary (without archival footage) remediates primary sources of an American right-wing political strategist’s rise within the Republican establishment in the context of his origins as a “leftist documentary filmmaker.” Audio describing the films he made for broadcast on PBS and continues to release on his Youtube channel, while denying their original sound or images, the film examines the usefulness of documentary infrastructures to right-wing media strategy in waging culture war, from alarmingly successful attacks on critical race theory, DEI, and Black women in positions of leadership to the US government’s mass deportation campaign.— @jrd_lord

The Glass Booth
(Jenny Brady, 2026, 33min)
In her new experimental moving image work The Glass Booth, artist Jenny Brady casts a cinematic gaze on the figure of the interpreter, exploring the interpreting profession and the contemporary landscape of interpretation. Through vignettes set in both extreme and familiar environments, the film portrays the processes of listening, speaking, and forgetting within acts of formal and informal interpretation. This film is a study of the complex, intersubjective nature of interpreters’ work, placing them at the centre, rather than intermediaries that blend into the background. Brady seeks to illuminate the interpretive act – an elaborate, sensory process of listening, decoding and responding. — @aislingclark

🎟️🌐 Tickets and full program guide at prismaticground.com

Performance Lecture: The Ian White Lecture with Jordan Lord on Sunday 19 April at 2pm, ICA

Join us on Sunday 19 April at the ICA for a lecture by Jordan Lord as part of the ongoing Ian White Lecture Series, celebrating the provocative and inquisitive spirit of White through the work of contemporary artists who carry that spirit forward.

In this performative lecture, Jordan Lord will show a version of their new short film ’Concealed and Denied’, an archival film without archival footage that concerns how right-wing propaganda weaponises mainstream media as well as documentary film and its funding structures. News that has unfolded since editing the film will interrupt it, as Lord reflects on the liveness of cinema and media access and the porosity between the cinema, the audience, and the news that surrounds them.

The film is open captioned and audio described in English. The lecture will be live captioned and audio described in English. The presentation will also be interpreted in BSL.

Interested in attending? Please sign up via the link in bio.

This event is also part of an extended programme connected to ‘Narrative Warfare’, Jordan Lord’s solo exhibition at LUX featuring ‘Concealed and Denied’, on view between 11 April - 31 May 2026.

@jrd_lord @abbypsun @opencitydocs

Image Description: Solid blue background with white text at the bottom that reads: “Tonight we celebrate; tomorrow, back to war.”

So excited to share the premiere of ‘Concealed and Denied’ and that it will be screening with An All-Around Feel Good and a virtual Q&A with Rajinder Dudrah and me at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival this Saturday, March 21!

Image description 1:
A webpage for the 21st Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival from 20-22 March 2026 shows the listing for a screening of films by Jordan Lord on Saturday 21 March at 16:00 in the Maltings Cinema at the Barracks, New Cinema. The program runs 94 mins; there’s a link to Buy Tickets. Underneath is a content warning that the program includes Racism / discrimination / slurs. A Relaxed Screening of this programme will take place simultaneously at Berwick Town Hall Council Chamber. The intro & welcome will last 8 mins; the film An All-Around Feel is 25 mins; the film Concealed and Denied is 36 mins; the Q&A conversation with Jordan Lord will last 25 mins.

Image description 2: A webpage of the film listing for Concealed and Denied. A still from the film shows a Twitter blue background with a caption that reads “and create as little visual material for the left as possible.” Below the still is a description of the film that reads: “A slippery, “archival” documentary deconstructing the unlikely rise of a right-wing political strategist who began as a “leftist documentary filmmaker”. Through creative audio description, Lord re-mediates YouTube and broadcast media to probe how documentary tools become weapons in contemporary culture wars—from attacks on critical race theory, to campaigns against Black women leaders and the machinery of US mass deportation.”

So excited to share the premiere of ‘Concealed and Denied’ and that it will be screening with An All-Around Feel Good and a virtual Q&A with Rajinder Dudrah and me at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival this Saturday, March 21!

Image description 1:
A webpage for the 21st Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival from 20-22 March 2026 shows the listing for a screening of films by Jordan Lord on Saturday 21 March at 16:00 in the Maltings Cinema at the Barracks, New Cinema. The program runs 94 mins; there’s a link to Buy Tickets. Underneath is a content warning that the program includes Racism / discrimination / slurs. A Relaxed Screening of this programme will take place simultaneously at Berwick Town Hall Council Chamber. The intro & welcome will last 8 mins; the film An All-Around Feel is 25 mins; the film Concealed and Denied is 36 mins; the Q&A conversation with Jordan Lord will last 25 mins.

Image description 2: A webpage of the film listing for Concealed and Denied. A still from the film shows a Twitter blue background with a caption that reads “and create as little visual material for the left as possible.” Below the still is a description of the film that reads: “A slippery, “archival” documentary deconstructing the unlikely rise of a right-wing political strategist who began as a “leftist documentary filmmaker”. Through creative audio description, Lord re-mediates YouTube and broadcast media to probe how documentary tools become weapons in contemporary culture wars—from attacks on critical race theory, to campaigns against Black women leaders and the machinery of US mass deportation.”

So excited to share the premiere of ‘Concealed and Denied’ and that it will be screening with An All-Around Feel Good and a virtual Q&A with Rajinder Dudrah and me at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival this Saturday, March 21!

Image description 1:
A webpage for the 21st Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival from 20-22 March 2026 shows the listing for a screening of films by Jordan Lord on Saturday 21 March at 16:00 in the Maltings Cinema at the Barracks, New Cinema. The program runs 94 mins; there’s a link to Buy Tickets. Underneath is a content warning that the program includes Racism / discrimination / slurs. A Relaxed Screening of this programme will take place simultaneously at Berwick Town Hall Council Chamber. The intro & welcome will last 8 mins; the film An All-Around Feel is 25 mins; the film Concealed and Denied is 36 mins; the Q&A conversation with Jordan Lord will last 25 mins.

Image description 2: A webpage of the film listing for Concealed and Denied. A still from the film shows a Twitter blue background with a caption that reads “and create as little visual material for the left as possible.” Below the still is a description of the film that reads: “A slippery, “archival” documentary deconstructing the unlikely rise of a right-wing political strategist who began as a “leftist documentary filmmaker”. Through creative audio description, Lord re-mediates YouTube and broadcast media to probe how documentary tools become weapons in contemporary culture wars—from attacks on critical race theory, to campaigns against Black women leaders and the machinery of US mass deportation.”

Upcoming Exhibition: Jordan Lord: ‘Narrative Warfare’ from 11 April to 31 May 2026

LUX is thrilled to present a solo exhibition by artist and filmmaker Jordan Lord, featuring their exhibition premiere of the film ‘Concealed and Denied’.

‘Narrative Warfare’ draws from several years of Lord’s investigation into the structures of documentary filmmaking and media propaganda. The exhibition asks how narratives are engineered and weaponised in contemporary audiovisual culture. At its centre is ‘Concealed and Denied’ (2026), an archival documentary without archival footage. Treating access as a mode of critical analysis, the film reveals how broadcasting techniques shape public understanding.

A programme of related events and contextual materials will accompany the exhibition- stay connected for updates!

The Exhibition Opening will be on Friday 10 April, from 6-8pm. Please RSVP via the link in bio.

Commissioned by LUX and supported using public funding from The Elephant Trust.

@jrd_lord @abbypsun

Design by Take Courage @takecourage.co

We are thrilled to welcome filmmaker and professor Jordan Lord to campus this weekend for screenings of their shorts, featured here, and a discussion! Join us Saturday morning at Harris Cinema!🍿🥤

Check out our website for more info: https://midwestsuperfest.sites.grinnell.edu

We are thrilled to welcome filmmaker and professor Jordan Lord to campus this weekend for screenings of their shorts, featured here, and a discussion! Join us Saturday morning at Harris Cinema!🍿🥤

Check out our website for more info: https://midwestsuperfest.sites.grinnell.edu

LUX is delighted to welcome Jordan Lord and their work to the LUX collection.

Jordan Lord is a filmmaker, writer, and artist whose work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts; framing and support; access, disability, and documentary. Their films have been shown at festivals and venues including MoMA Doc Fortnight, New York Film Festival, Walker Art Center, Union Docs, and Dokufest. Their film Shared Resources (2021) won the John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media at the Camden International Film Festival and the Critics Jury Prize at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. They have presented solo exhibitions at Piper Keys, Artists Space, and Squeaky Wheel. Their work has been featured in publications such as Screen Slate, Filmmaker Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, Film Quarterly, and Hyperallergic.

LUX first encountered Jordan’s work through a screening of ‘I Can Hear My Mother’s Voice’ (2018), shown as part of Ian White’s exhibition ‘Any Frame is a Thrown Voice’ at Camden Arts Centre in 2018. Subsequent UK presentations have included a screening of ‘Shared Resources’ with @luxscot in 2022, as well as festival screenings at @berwickfilmfest and @cnfw_uk. A solo exhibition of their work was also presented at Piper Keys in London in 2019.

LUX is proud to now distribute five works by Jordan Lord, produced since 2018. For enquiries, please get in touch via our website.

We are also looking forward to sharing a #NewArtistFocus essay on Jordan’s practice by Louise Hickman very soon.

Portrait photo credit: Terra Long.
Image description: Jordan Lord, a white person with a blonde mustache, smiles at the camera, wearing a hat and sunglasses, with their hands folded over their legs, as they sit on a red rock on a sunny day.

@jrd_lord

We're so pleased to announce that our screening of SHARED RESOURCES at #CNFW25 will be followed by a Q&A with director @jrd_lord.

13:00 on July 6th @riocinema

Tickets, day passes, and festival passes available at cnfw.co.uk (link in bio).

The screening will also be introduced by @nosniktamot, curator for @rhizomespring.

The first screening in a day of three personal documentaries about family, SHARED RESOURCES is a thoughtful consideration of the meaning of 'debt'. It also incorporates accessibility into the creative process in a way we've never seen before, incorporating open captions and audio description narrated by different members of the family, which adds an extra layer of meaning to the film that wouldn't be there if it wasn't designed to be accessible for Blind and Deaf audiences.

We're so pleased to announce that our screening of SHARED RESOURCES at #CNFW25 will be followed by a Q&A with director @jrd_lord.

13:00 on July 6th @riocinema

Tickets, day passes, and festival passes available at cnfw.co.uk (link in bio).

The screening will also be introduced by @nosniktamot, curator for @rhizomespring.

The first screening in a day of three personal documentaries about family, SHARED RESOURCES is a thoughtful consideration of the meaning of 'debt'. It also incorporates accessibility into the creative process in a way we've never seen before, incorporating open captions and audio description narrated by different members of the family, which adds an extra layer of meaning to the film that wouldn't be there if it wasn't designed to be accessible for Blind and Deaf audiences.

We're so pleased to announce that our screening of SHARED RESOURCES at #CNFW25 will be followed by a Q&A with director @jrd_lord.

13:00 on July 6th @riocinema

Tickets, day passes, and festival passes available at cnfw.co.uk (link in bio).

The screening will also be introduced by @nosniktamot, curator for @rhizomespring.

The first screening in a day of three personal documentaries about family, SHARED RESOURCES is a thoughtful consideration of the meaning of 'debt'. It also incorporates accessibility into the creative process in a way we've never seen before, incorporating open captions and audio description narrated by different members of the family, which adds an extra layer of meaning to the film that wouldn't be there if it wasn't designed to be accessible for Blind and Deaf audiences.

We're so pleased to announce that our screening of SHARED RESOURCES at #CNFW25 will be followed by a Q&A with director @jrd_lord.

13:00 on July 6th @riocinema

Tickets, day passes, and festival passes available at cnfw.co.uk (link in bio).

The screening will also be introduced by @nosniktamot, curator for @rhizomespring.

The first screening in a day of three personal documentaries about family, SHARED RESOURCES is a thoughtful consideration of the meaning of 'debt'. It also incorporates accessibility into the creative process in a way we've never seen before, incorporating open captions and audio description narrated by different members of the family, which adds an extra layer of meaning to the film that wouldn't be there if it wasn't designed to be accessible for Blind and Deaf audiences.

We're so pleased to announce that our screening of SHARED RESOURCES at #CNFW25 will be followed by a Q&A with director @jrd_lord.

13:00 on July 6th @riocinema

Tickets, day passes, and festival passes available at cnfw.co.uk (link in bio).

The screening will also be introduced by @nosniktamot, curator for @rhizomespring.

The first screening in a day of three personal documentaries about family, SHARED RESOURCES is a thoughtful consideration of the meaning of 'debt'. It also incorporates accessibility into the creative process in a way we've never seen before, incorporating open captions and audio description narrated by different members of the family, which adds an extra layer of meaning to the film that wouldn't be there if it wasn't designed to be accessible for Blind and Deaf audiences.

We're so pleased to announce that our screening of SHARED RESOURCES at #CNFW25 will be followed by a Q&A with director @jrd_lord.

13:00 on July 6th @riocinema

Tickets, day passes, and festival passes available at cnfw.co.uk (link in bio).

The screening will also be introduced by @nosniktamot, curator for @rhizomespring.

The first screening in a day of three personal documentaries about family, SHARED RESOURCES is a thoughtful consideration of the meaning of 'debt'. It also incorporates accessibility into the creative process in a way we've never seen before, incorporating open captions and audio description narrated by different members of the family, which adds an extra layer of meaning to the film that wouldn't be there if it wasn't designed to be accessible for Blind and Deaf audiences.

We're so pleased to announce that our screening of SHARED RESOURCES at #CNFW25 will be followed by a Q&A with director @jrd_lord.

13:00 on July 6th @riocinema

Tickets, day passes, and festival passes available at cnfw.co.uk (link in bio).

The screening will also be introduced by @nosniktamot, curator for @rhizomespring.

The first screening in a day of three personal documentaries about family, SHARED RESOURCES is a thoughtful consideration of the meaning of 'debt'. It also incorporates accessibility into the creative process in a way we've never seen before, incorporating open captions and audio description narrated by different members of the family, which adds an extra layer of meaning to the film that wouldn't be there if it wasn't designed to be accessible for Blind and Deaf audiences.

Cinema is of the mind anyway: Films by Jordan Lord and Tiffany Sia
@walkerartcenter cinema screening on Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 7pm
With big thanks to and moderated by @pablo_oto

How do we read an image? This screening brings together artists Jordan Lord and Tiffany Sia to share recent films that all ask questions about how access practices, such as captioning and audio description, intersect with broader ideas of media literacy. Followed by a discussion with the artists.

Film stills:
Jordan Lord, An All-Around Feel Good, 2024. 25 mins.
Tiffany Sia, A Child Already Knows, 2024. 33 mins.