Lana Jokel

Filmmaker Lana Jokel was born in Shanghai, China. She grew up in Brazil, educated in France and the United States. She studied languages in college and also attended Boston Museum of Fine Arts School.  

Her film career began with the American documentary pioneers Richard Leacock  and D.A. Pennebaker. She edited Norman Mailer’s “Maidstone” and Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey’s “Heat”, as well as many of Michael Blackwood’s documentaries on art and music before making her own documentaries.  

Among her own films were “Andy Warhol” 1973, “Larry Rivers Public and Private” 1992, “Large Scale Projects-Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen” 1992, “Chinese Hand Laundry and Field of Waste” 1995, “Chinese Contemporary Art: Artists Working in China” and “ Chinese Contemporary Art Comes to America” 2004, Elizabeth Strong Cuevas Sculpture” and “I like to be awed” 2002, 2021, “A Moment in Time- Hamptons Artists” 1996-2016, “Camera and Mirror- Howard Kanovitz” 2007, “Keith Sonnier-Not Just Neon” 2019. 
 
On June 2024, Lana’s film archive was acquired by the  Centre Pompidou, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris. The acquisition includes protection, preservation, conservation, technical upgrade. Access for viewing/research  and/or screening at other institutions. Of the 22 films/videos, 18 are on contemporary art; from “Andy Warhol” 1973 to “Ethereal- Alice Hope Art” 2023.