About Inaiah Lujan

Inaiah Lujan

Inaiah Lujan is a Colorado-based filmmaker, musician, and visual artist of Latinx and Jicarilla Apache ancestry. They grew up on the Navajo Nation from age six to sixteen, an early chapter in a life spent never quite fitting neatly into one world.

Music came first. Punk and DIY culture gave Lujan a sense of belonging and shaped an approach to making things that still carries through their work today. After more than two decades writing, recording, performing, and producing music, filmmaking became another way to explore many of the same instincts through image, rhythm, performance, and story.

Largely self-taught, Lujan moved from making skate videos with friends to music videos, documentaries, experimental work, and narrative filmmaking. Their work is drawn to contradiction: beauty and ugliness, nostalgia and unease, sincerity and absurdity, the familiar made strange.

They live and work in Pueblo, Colorado.

Filmmaker / Musician / Visual Artist