Director's Works
Eighteen Lucy Knox
Lucy Knox is an award-winning Australian screenwriter and director whose short films have screened at over 50 film festivals including the Berlinale, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Sheffield DocFest, and MIFF and are distributed by The Criterion Channel. She is a Torino Lab Fellow and was recently invited to join the inaugural year of Square Peg Social, led by Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen.
Lucy’s previous commercial clients include Google, Nike, NRMA and the Australian Government.
At the end of 2024, I went to my cousin's eighteenth birthday, and talking to his friends made me realise this generation faces such a different world than I did at eighteen.
It feels like the world has accelerated so rapidly in their lifetime, I guess the most obvious change being the omnipresence of social media. When I was their age, that was still early days. We only used it for communication, where today it’s basically part of how identity is formed and performed. Unlike other generations, this younger generation hasn't had adolescence without the internet. So I wanted to create a kind of time capsule of this moment - a documentary that captures what it means to be eighteen, at this moment in time.
