Join us for an online event with artist Jenny Brady in conversation with Benjamin Cook, the founder Director of LUX and LUX Scotland, on Wednesday 24 September at 7pm.
Together, Cook and Brady will discuss the making and themes of Brady’s new experimental moving image work, The Glass Booth / An Both Gloine. The film casts a cinematic gaze on the figure of the interpreter, exploring the profession and its contemporary landscape. Through vivid scenes set in contexts ranging from international diplomacy to asylum interviews, primary schools, and high-stakes conferences, Brady examines the complex processes of listening, speaking, and remembering that define acts of interpretation.
Emerging from research into the origins of modern interpreting at the Nuremberg Trials, the film places interpreters at the centre, illuminating their work as a demanding, sensory act of negotiation between intention and expression. Building on themes from Brady’s earlier works, Music for Solo Performer (2022) and Receiver (2019), The Glass Booth highlights how interpretation shapes communication, power, and human connection.
Jenny Brady is an artist filmmaker based in Dublin, exploring ideas around speech, translation and communication. Her films have been presented at LUX, The New York Film Festival, Viennale, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Docs Ireland (with AEMI), This Long Century, MUBI, Essay Film Festival, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, TENT Rotterdam, EMAF, Videonale, Camden International Film Festival, Massachusetts, BFI London Film Festival, Images Festival, Toronto, November Film Festival, London the Irish Film Institute, Project Arts Centre, EVA International, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Whitechapel gallery and Tate Liverpool. Her works are distributed by LUX, an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists’ moving image practices and the ideas that surround them.
Benjamin Cook is the founder Director of LUX and LUX Scotland, the UK agencies for the support and promotion of artists working with the moving image and has worked in the visual arts and independent film for the past 25 years as a curator, producer, writer and teacher. He now works as an independent art and film producer and a gestalt therapist.
