Lara
Baksu

Lara Baksu is a Turkish filmmaker and moving image artist based in London. Her work is rooted in personal experience and explores themes of madness, memory, absence, and transformation. She works intuitively, often filming from within altered states, using long takes, minimal editing, and a handheld sense of time.

Her films resist traditional narrative and lean toward the poetic, the raw, and the durational. I’m in A Room Alone documents a manic episode from the inside, while Ode to Womb follows a dream-led journey through ancestral and imagined landscapes. Her practice is influenced by feminist experimental cinema—especially the work of Chantal Akerman and Marguerite Duras—and is shaped by a need to witness, rather than explain.

Baksu sees filmmaking as a ritual act: a way of holding space for what is fragile, invisible, or difficult to name.