born in 1988, Melbourne, Australia,
Born in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia), Lilah Benetti is an international award winning and critically acclaimed Artist and Filmmaker. Lilah considers their work to be auto-ethnographic; an amalgamation of their personal experiences interwoven within broader social and cultural histories, foregrounding Black Queer identities. Through film they also delve into the world of fiction to illuminate lost and obscured narratives, exploring contemporary forms of resistance in the pursuit of self-determination. With observations from our pre-colonial past, Lilah’s work is often speculative, imaginative and attentive to our immediate futures, recognising that Black Futurism and Queer Futurity are both near and tangible, and require collective agency to build our utopia’s. The basis of Lilah’s work is rooted in visual imaging, considering the boundaries of both the still and moving image as fluid and porous in order to push the medium’s possibilities through scale, method and presentation. Lilah graduated from LaSalle International Art and Design College and has since completed residencies at the MQBMBQ (My Queer Blackness My Black Queerness) Villa Lena (Italy 2022), the Centre for Projection Art (Australia 2023) and received the Honorable Mention at Berlinale (Germany 2022). In 2024, Lilah is set to showcase their work in several major international exhibitions.
