Jasmine Lynea
Jasmine Lynea is a queer filmmaker and visual artist whose work centers around themes such as self-love, childhood, and spirituality through science. Their work navigates the fluid spaces between truth and myth, offering vibrant, unconventional narratives that envision a loving, queer, and colorful liberating future.
As a 2022 BlackStar Filmmaker Lab fellow, jasmine wrote and directed the fantasy sci-fi short The Love Machine, which premiered at the BlackStar Film Festival and screened at the Afrikana Film Festival. In 2023, their eccentric work earned them fellowships and grants from Mural Arts, the Velocity Fund, Flaherty’s Queer-World Mending program, Independence Public Media Foundation, and Scribe Video.
Currently, Jasmine is a NextFab x Leeway Artist Residence and a 2024 West Philly Creative Arts Grantee.
Awarded Grants
2024
Residencies
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Overview
jasmine lynea will focus their residency on building an immersive installation, entitled The Love Machine II. This installation is inspired by jasmine’s short film, The Love Machine, which follows a black teenage scientist and influencer who builds a machine in his basement that can help restore love within his family. jasmine had the opportunity to direct and write the film as part of BlackStar’s Inaugural Filmmaker Lab and since then, The Love Machine has conceptualized into an immersive installation. By utilizing NextFab’s woodworking, metal, and jewelry facilities, jasmine will build The Love Machine II, a life-sized booth containing three VHS monitors displaying collage videos on loop, containing images of Black love, care, collectivity, and joy. The booth will be designed to accommodate one person at a time, providing a safe and intimate experience for reflection and healing. To recreate the immersive experience portrayed in the film, equipped in the booth will be multimedia capabilities, including audio, visual, and sensory elements.
2020
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Jasmine is developing The Miseducated, an arts, film, dance, and workshop festival showcasing the works of Queer, Black, and Brown artists of color. Intending to serve the students of color at Samuel Fels High-School, the Miseducated Arts Festival will host mental health and wellness workshops throughout the year and culminate with a showcase of multidisciplinary performances in an end of the year festival.
