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.

The artists shortlisted this year are:Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, Karimah Ashadu, Onyeka Igwe, Morgan Quaintance, George Finlay Ramsay and Hope Strickland. The programme will also feature a Q&A with one of the shortlisted artists Morgan Quaintance.

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.

The tour runs from 25 October to 14 December, in partnership with seven arts venues across the UK.

About the works in the Touring Programme

Informed by interviews with first-generation migrants living in London, Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah’s I Carry It With Me Everywhere (2022) looks at the timeless search for home and belonging amongst an environment of displacement.

In Machine Boys (2024), Karimah Ashadu enters the underground community of motorbike taxi drivers, a forbidden practice in Lagos, and delivers a visceral portrait of masculinity and precarious labour in Nigeria’s patriarchal culture.

Elsewhere Onyeka Igwe’s archival collage film The Miracle on George Green (2022) presents a picture of the protests and collective resistance to the building of the M11 link road in Hackney, expanding out to consider global histories of protest.

Hope Strickland’s a river holds a perfect memory (2024) meanders gently across waterways in Jamaica, from a leisurely raft on the Martha Brae River to a night-time boat trip in Falmouth’s bioluminescent Lagoon. Shifting focus to the impact of industry on the waters of northern England, the film uses water to explore the entanglement of these supposedly disparate communities.

Morgan Quaintance’s Repetitions (2022) dissects formal elements of film in a heightened sequence of flickering images and sound loops which speak to social histories of industrial and physical labour.

Shot in a 16th Century manor house in the South Downs, George Finlay Ramsay’s 16mm film Nursted, from the sleep side (2023) takes us through the dark corridors and dusty shelves of the former home of two bohemian artists, reflecting on its history as it falls into disrepair and the fading memories of its inhabitants.

The 2025 Film London Jarman Award Touring Programme host venues

Jarman Award 2025 main page on Film London website:https://filmlondon.org.uk/flamin/the-jarman-award/jarman-award-2025

Saturday 25 Octoberg39, CardiffScreening and in-conversation with Onyeka Igwehttps://g39.org/

Tuesday 4 NovemberNottingham ContemporaryScreening and in-conversation with Morgan Quaintancehttps://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/

Monday 10 NovemberBarbican, LondonScreening and in-conversation with George Finlay Ramsayhttps://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/cinema

Tuesday 11 NovemberTowner EastbourneScreening and in-conversation with Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shahhttps://townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on

Tuesday 11 NovemberFilmhouse, Edinburgh, hosted by LUX ScotlandScreening and in-conversation with Hope Stricklandhttps://luxscotland.org.uk/programme

18 November – 14 DecemberWhitechapel Gallery, LondonExhibition with films by all shortlisted artistshttps://www.whitechapelgallery.org/

Thursday 20 NovemberSpike Island, BristolScreening and in-conversation with Karimah Ashaduhttps://www.spikeisland.org.uk/

27 November – 10 DecemberIrish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), DublinScreening of 2025 Jarman Awardee artisthttps://imma.ie/

Thursday 11 DecemberWhitechapel Gallery, LondonScreening of 2025 Jarman Awardee artisthttps://www.whitechapelgallery.org/

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