LACE is proud to announce the launch of this year’s Artists’ Film International (AFI’24), a touring film program which is collectively curated and presented by fifteen international arts organizations and convened by Forma. AFI’24 introduces the work of talented moving image artists to worldwide audiences, and will be live over 300 days, with exhibitions, screenings and public programmes hosted across four continents. This year the AFI partners have commissioned or selected recent artists’ films which respond to the theme Solidarity. Considering solidarity as a collective form of resistance, togetherness and interdependence, the fifteen films in AFI’24 address the ways in which solidarity is needed, sought and enacted on micro and macro scales. As a body of films, the AFI’24 programme provokes and cultivates radical imaginaries that have the potential to transform our wider, collective experience. LACE’s selection for AFI’24 is Etched in Light (2024) by Cassils. Etched in Light is a participatory visual art and sonic performance led by the artist Cassils in collaboration with the National Center for Transgender Equality and over 140 trans and NB artists. AFI’24 launched at Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland in July 2024, before being presented around the world at AFI’24 partner venues: argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium; Ballroom Marfa, Texas, USA; Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan in eXiLe e.V., (CCAA in EXiLe), Frankfurt, Germany; Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; Forma, London, UK; Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, USA; MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan; Project 88, Mumbai, India; Sapieha Palace, branch of the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland; Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway; Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k), Berlin, Germany. Featuring works by: Bahar Arfan; Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas; Ingrid Bjørnaali, Maria Simmons & Fabian Lanzmaier; Cassils; Collectif Faire-Part; Nadeem Din-Gabisi; Lihuel González; Rana Nazzal Hamadeh; Pınar Öğrenci; Milica Rakić; Caterina Erica Shanta; Mary Sullivan; Aarti Sunder; and more.