Lum has over two decades of rich experience as a filmmaker, visual and media artist, and over
ten years of experience as a researcher and cultural manager. He has worked with film, new
media, and anthropologically informed media creation as a creative director, researcher,
producer, and lecturer.
He holds a Masters in Visual and Media Anthropology (Institute of Social and Cultural
Anthropology) from Freie University in Berlin with highest grades. Prior to that he received a
Bachelor of Science in Applied Arts and Sciences from Rochester Institute of Technology -
Kosovo, where he lectures as of 2020.
During his studies situated within the sub-discipline of Digital Anthropology, he expanded on his
‘Dialectics and Aesthetics of Creating with the Digital - An Anthropology of Interface’ - a
tempo-historic phenomenology – combination of multisided and sensory ethnographic research,
digital ethnography, and interactive film project which investigates the lives of digital artists and
creators. Recently, he began building on a new research project contextualized as reflections
within an Anthropology of Emotions and Intimacy.
As a scholar of EU’s and GoK’s YCS program, Lum joined the Kosovo Cinematography Center
in 2019, to continue his contribution to the sector now also from within the institutions and where
he has led the main film institution for two years (2021-2023). He is also a member of the
European Film Academy.
His latest film and new media works include: “1990s’ School-Houses in Kosova” (2020), "GOF”
– Filmworld (2019), "Women of Liberty" (2018), "Voices from within" (2018), “The numerous
thoughts and things” – interactive film (2017), "Machinima Film" (2016) etc.
