This year’s Film London Jarman Award tour will see the best in contemporary artists’ filmmaking taken to venues across the UK from 3 October – 1 December, 2024.
Featuring work from the six artists shortlisted for the 2024 Film London Jarman Award, the tour will offer audiences the chance to explore an extraordinary range of boundary pushing work.
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Sin Wai Kin’s visually striking and immersive work Dreaming the End uses a range of characters to explore binaries and the categories we create to make sense of experience. Through the lens of archaeology, and the illicit trade of ancient relics, Maeve Brennan’s An Excavation looks at history’s interaction with our modern life, giving context to the present moment.
Shot on a hacked Game Boy camera, Larry Achiampong’s film A Letter (Side B) negotiates urgent issues of depression, digital anxiety and inter-generational trauma, as it looks at institutional structures that threaten the lives of migrants and refugee families. Melanie Manchot’s mesmerising nocturnal film Liquid Skin shines a light on night-time workers in Germany’s Rhine region, allowing the people she collaborates with to have a voice and to tell their own story.
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Drawing from William Blake’s 1794 poem ‘The Sick Rose’, Rosalind Nashashibi allowed her film The Invisible Worm to grow like a weed out of the daily life of her own community – an exploration of non-linear time and corruption. Maryam Tafakory’s work layers archival films, text and images to explore issues of censorship and prohibition. Her film Nazarbazi, translating as ‘The play of glances’, posits that if we try to erase something it inevitably becomes more pronounced and expands.
The 2024 tour will visit venues across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with screenings and artist talks at 7 major arts venues in Glasgow, Belfast, Nottingham, Eastbourne, London, Cardiff and Bristol, accompanied by the opportunity to watch recent works by all the artists. The tour will include a special showcase weekend with all the six artists on 16 & 17 November at Whitechapel Gallery, London.
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The tour will visit: Barbican Centre, London; The MAC, Belfast; LUX Scotland, Glasgow; g39, Cardiff; Nottingham Contemporary; Spike Island, Bristol; Towner Eastbourne and Whitechapel Gallery, London.
The Jury who selected this year’s shortlist are: Matthew Barrington, Cinema Curator, Barbican; Shaminder Nahal, Commissioning Editor, Arts and Topical, Channel 4; 2023 Jarman Award shortlisted artist, Julianknxx; Ali Roche, Chief Curator, Nottingham Contemporary and Eve Gabereau, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Modern Films and Film London Board Member.
The recipient of the £10,000 award will be announced on at a special celebration in London on 25 November.
Films in the 2024 Touring Programme:
Larry Achiampong, A Letter (Side B) (2023), 20’
Maeve Brennan, An Excavation (2022), 20’
Melanie Manchot, Liquid Skin (2023), 23’
Rosalind Nashashibi, The Invisible Worm (2024), 17’
Sin Wai Kin, Dreaming the End (2023), 21’
Maryam Tafakory, Nazarbazi (2022), 19’
g39, Cardiff
Thursday 3 October
Screening and Q&A with Larry Achiampong and Cinzia Mutigli, CEO, g39
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Nottingham Contemporary
Tuesday 15 October
Screening and Q&A with Maryam Tafakory and Ali Roche, Chief Curator, Nottingham Contemporary
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Barbican Centre, London
Monday 4 November
Screening of new works by Sin Wai Kin and Q&A with the artist and Lotte Johnson, Curator, Barbican Centre
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LUX Scotland, Glasgow
Tuesday 5 November
Screening and Q&A with Rosalind Nashashibi and David Upton, Public Programme Manager, LUX Scotland
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Towner Eastbourne
Wednesday 6 November
Screening and Q&A with Maeve Brennan and Sam Kaufman, artist and researcher
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Spike Island, Bristol
Thursday 14 November
Screening and Q&A with Melanie Manchot and Carmen Juliá, Curator, Spike Island
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Whitechapel Gallery, London
Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 November
Weekend of events and screenings from all shortlisted artists
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The MAC Belfast
Friday 22 November
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Whitechapel Gallery, London
Saturday 30 November & Sunday 1 December
Looped screenings of touring programme films
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Film London Jarman Award tour will open venues across the UK from 3rd of October, 2024 until the 1st of December, 2024
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