Asako Ujita: 'Good Night'

18 Jun-8 Aug 2026

Good Night, 2026, Still. Credit: Courtesy of the artist

Overview

LUX presents a first solo exhibition by artist and filmmaker Asako Ujita, featuring her new film 'Good Night'.

'Good Night' is a phrase spoken to a child before sleep, and to the dead before parting. Ujita's film sits in this space where endings and beginnings overlap. Made during Ujita’s pregnancy with her first son, ‘Good Night’ journeys to southern Taiwan where her great-grandfather had lived during the Japanese occupation. Known to her through a single postcard, he becomes an invisible guide through lakes, forests, caves and country roads. 

The film listens to the moments of quiet searching: sound recordists in a cave listening for frequencies beyond human hearing, the filmmaker looking for traces of a family member and prayers offered at a temple. These elliptical enactments and dialogues drift toward a space where love, grief and loss felt deeply yet remain unspoken. Through a method of poetic obliqueness, Ujita blurs the boundaries between documentary and fabulation. 

Shot through soft light and fog, 'Good Night' holds a tension between the landscape's beauty and the colonial violence it contains. Mist rising at dawn, haze settling over rice fields and the quiet rhythm of figures moving through space. These become a language for when direct knowledge is impossible. Ujita lets this history surface as a flame-like presence to be felt between what the land holds and what it refuses to reveal. 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a screening event programmed by Emma Boubara responding to the exhibition. Further details to be announced via the LUX website.

For more information, artist interviews and images please contact Sun Park [email protected]

NOTES TO EDITORS

Asako Ujita (b. 1997, Japan) is a filmmaker and artist working with 16mm film. Her work explores forgotten landscapes and ancestral whispers, where myth, memory, intergenerational trauma and tender love dissolve into fragile dreams.

Unfolding through atmospheres shaped by mist, fire, water, and light, Ujita creates films that drift between documentary observation and dreamlike reflection, evoking loss, inherited wounds, love, vulnerability, and spectral presence. Her practice invites viewers into quiet acts of reflection, using landscape and atmosphere to explore inherited histories, familial memory, and the emotional traces carried across generations.

Her award winning film ‘Fade’, received  the Grand Prix at 25FPS Festival, and gently observes her grandmother’s rural life, where seasons shift and memories gently fade and disappear with love.

Her films have screened internationally, including at Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Beijing International Short Film Festival, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Barbican Centre, and Tate Britain. She graduated from MA Artists’ Film & Moving Image at Goldsmiths in 2025. 

LUX is a UK arts organisation and accredited museum that supports and promotes artists working with the moving image. Originally founded in 1966 as the London Filmmakers Co-operative, it represents an over 50 year history of artists’ engagement with the moving image in the UK. Based in London and Glasgow, it delivers a range of activities, including exhibitions, screenings, educational projects, commissioning, artists professional development and research. LUX represents Europe’s largest collection of films and videos made by visual artists and distributes them to museums, galleries and festivals around the world. www.lux.org.uk

EXHIBITION ACCESSIBILITY

Getting here: LUX is located in Waterlow Park (Highgate), near the Dartmouth Park Lodge Gate on Dartmouth Park Hill. Please note Waterlow Park is on a hill and from Archway Station there is a steep walk up Highgate Hill. 

Address: LUX, Waterlow Park Centre, Dartmouth Park Hill, London, N19 5JF, UK. 

Entrance location on what3words https://w3w.co/rates.fallen.joins

Step Free Access: The LUX building is wheelchair accessible and there are wheelchair accessible toilet facilities.

Auditory/Visual Access: We have a large print guide and magnifying glasses available in the space. The works in the exhibition will be available with Open Captions.

You can learn more about detailed access information on our website. If you have any access needs to attend our events please contact us at +44(0)20 3141 2960 or [email protected].