Meet the Artists
This year’s Film London Jarman Award tour sees the best in contemporary artists’ filmmaking taken to venues across the UK. You'll be able to watch all six artists' work at the MAC on 23 November, 11am - 5pm in the Factory. You will be able to drop in any time to watch the films. No need to book.
Discover the incredible diversity within the world of artists’ filmmaking in the UK, with a presentation of the work of the shortlist of this year’s Film London Jarman Award. Films in the programme use archival footage, infrared and hacked console cameras, analogue film and costume to explore subjects from multifarious identities, non-linear time and inter-generational trauma to political censorship and night-time contemporary labour.
The artists shortlisted this year are: Larry Achiampong, Maeve Brennan, Melanie Manchot, Rosalind Nashashibi, Sin Wai Kin and Maryam Tafakory.
Inspired by visionary British filmmaker Derek Jarman, the Award recognises and supports artists working with the moving image. The shortlisted artists illustrate the spirit of inventiveness within moving image, highlighting the breadth of creativity and craftsmanship the medium has to offer, as well as its powerful ability to engage and provoke audiences. The Award comes with a £10,000 prize.
The winner of the Film London Jarman Award will be announced on the 25 November. The award is presented in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery and Barbican.
Films in the Jarman Award 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’
Explore an extraordinary range of boundary-pushing work
The work by the six artists shortlisted for the 2024 Film London Jarman Award will be screened from 11am - 5pm on 23 November in our Factory room. You will be able to drop in any time to watch the films. No need to book.
Find out more about the six finalists here.
Read the Jarman Award 2024 booklet here.
Find out more about the Film London Jarman Award here.
About the Artists
Larry Achiampong's projects employ imagery, aural and visual archives, live performance, and sound to intricately explore the complexities of class, cross-cultural dynamics, and postdigital identity. By crate-digging the echoes of history, Achiampong examines the hybridity of his heritage alongside the intersection between popular culture and the legacies of colonisation. These investigations scrutinise constructions of ‘the self’ through the splicing of audible and visual materials of personal and interpersonal archives. In doing so, he offers multiple perspectives that reveal the deeply entrenched inequalities in contemporary society.
Maeve Brennan is an artist and filmmaker based in London. Her practice explores the historical and political resonance of material and place. Working across moving image, installation, sculpture and printed matter, her works excavate layered histories, revealing the unseen structures that determine our lived environment.
Across film, video, photography and sound, Melanie Manchot's work pursues enquiries into the processes that lead towards our individual and collective identities. Her projects interrogate and employ acts of care, resistance and communality to engage in discourses on social and political urgencies. Performance-to-camera, reconstruction and participation as well as location-based research are recurring methodologies in her work. Using cameras as organizing principles, works operate on the threshold of documentary and staged events to investigate how fact, fiction and observation offer strategies for speaking about our shifting place in an increasingly mediated world.
Rosalind Nashashibi is a London based artist of Northern Irish and Palestinian descent. Her media are film and painting, and paintings appear frequently in her films, which chronicle intimate moments of contemporary life with an empathetic and personal approach. Nashashibi is preoccupied with looking, in a way that almost crosses over into the other camp, passing onto the side of the subject in a way that can be disconcerting or funny. Her films are punctuated by manifestations of power dynamics and collective histories. Subjects have included non-nuclear family structures, the multiple versions of the artist myth and chronicling life in Palestine.
Sin Wai Kin brings fantasy to life through storytelling in moving image, performance, writing, and print. Drawing on experiences of existing between binary categories, their work realizes alternate worlds to describe lived experiences of desire, identification and consciousness.
Working at the intersection of cinema and live performance, Maryam Tafakory (b. Shiraz, Iran) makes textual and filmic collages that attempt to dissect concealed acts of erasure – of bodies, intimacies, and histories.
