Cinema:
The 2022 Jarman Award // Gwobr Jarman 2022
21 October 2022
Jamie Crewe - Onyeka Igwe - Grace Ndiritu - Morgan Quaintance - Rosa-Johan Uddoh - Alberta Whittle
Discover the incredible diversity within the world of artists’ filmmaking in Britain, with a presentation of the work of the shortlist of this year’s Film London Jarman Award.
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.
Onyeka Igwe, a so-called archive (2020), 20’
This film will be viewable 12.00-00.00, 21/10/22
Grace Ndiritu Black Beauty (2021), 29’
This film will be viewable 12.00-00.00, 21/10/22
Morgan Quaintance, Surviving You Always (2020), 18’
This film will be viewable 12.00-00.00, 21/10/22
Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Black Poirot (2019-2021), 21’
This film will be viewable 12.00-00.00, 21/10/22
Alberta Whittle, Lagareh – The Last Born (2022), 43’
This film will be viewable 12.00-00.00, 21/10/22
Jamie Crewe, False Wife (2022), 15’
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Featuring work from the six artists shortlisted for the 2022 Jarman Award, the tour will offer art and film lovers the chance to explore an extraordinary range of boundary pushing work, from Morgan Quaintance’s black and white film that recalls adolescent drug-taking to Alberta Whittle’s Venice Biennale premiering work Lagareh – The Last Born, which is anchored around theories of abolition, rebellion, ancestral knowledge and love. We explore colonial archives in both Lagos and Bristol in a film by Onyeka Igwe and experience a 20 minute ride on the Orientalised-Other Express in Black Poirot by Rosa-Johan Uddoh. Jamie Crewe’s poppers training video combines text with hypnotic music, animation and voiceover, and in Grace Ndiritu’s Black Beauty African fashion model Alexandra Cartier meets Jorge Luis Borges in a visionary hallucination.
Jamie Crewe, False Wife (2022), 15’
Onyeka Igwe, a so-called archive (2020), 20’
Grace Ndiritu Black Beauty (2021), 29’
Morgan Quaintance, Surviving You Always (2020), 18’
Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Black Poirot (2019-2021), 21’
Alberta Whittle, Lagareh – The Last Born (2022), 43’
The 2022 tour will visit venues across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with screenings and artist talks at 6 major arts venues from Glasgow and Derry to Nottingham, Cardiff and Bristol accompanied by the opportunity to watch a showcase of recent works by all the artists. The tour will culminate in a special showcase day with all the artists on November 12 at Whitechapel Gallery, London.
The tour will visit: Void, Derry; g39, Cardiff; Nottingham Contemporary; CCA Glasgow; Spike Island, Bristol; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne and Whitechapel Gallery, London.
The Jury who selected this year’s shortlist are: Iwona Blazwick OBE, Emeritus Curator, Whitechapel Gallery; Matthew Barrington, Cinema Curator, Barbican; Shaminder Nahal, Commissioning Editor, Arts and Topical, Channel 4; Artist and 2021 Jarman Award Winner, Jasmina Cibic and Nicole Yip, Chief Curator, Nottingham Contemporary and Film London Board Member.
The winner of the Award and £10,000 prize will be announced on at a special celebration at the Barbican on Tuesday 22 November.
