Tag: experimental film
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Kulpreet Singh’s short statement on climate change and agricultural crisis, Indelible Black Marks, leaves much unsaid—an ongoing problem with climate justice art. Nonetheless, the Hayward Gallery show could not have come at a better time. For his first solo show in the UK, Kulpreet Singh plays with ideas of trace, action and immediacy to bring…
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Last weekend, Barbican screened four shorts as part of their Project a Black Planet season, which all use memory and myth. But how does eternalising and internalising the past help reimagine cultural identities today? “You cannot step in the same river twice,” Heraclitus reportedly said of our experience in the world. The past is gone;…
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Presented for the first time in the UK, Tate Modern’s Ana Mendieta retrospective manages to be expansive while also zeroing in on the artist’s core themes and symbols—if at the expense of their broader meaning in contemporary society. It is hard to pinpoint along which lines Tate has organised this enormous retrospective. The sections somewhat…
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Moyra Davey’s short history of four famous artists and their Ukrainian roots is a quiet contemplation on cultural memory, preservation and identity. Much of what drives cultural displacement, invasion and colonisation today is a future based in the past. It’s long been a quality of the postmodern world that the beliefs that fuelled conflicts and…
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Multimedia artist Joe Moss turns Matt’s Gallery into a playroom for surveillance technology in his latest intertextual, multi-verse installation. Moss’ oeuvre often deals in sculptures, particularly smaller models that evoke themes of cuteness and vulnerability. In Automated Fantasy Procedure, two small drones take their place, flying overhead, recording a path shown on the two screens,…
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Onyeka Igwe and Morgan Quaintance jointly received the Jarman Award 2025, presented by Film London, last Tuesday. Whitechapel Gallery will present the winning films, A Radical Duet (2023) and Repetitions (2022), at a special show on 11th December. Of the awardees, the jury said that ‘both artists have produced significant bodies of work and consistently…
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Between 1970 and 1972, a group of filmmakers (Richard Mordaunt, Mary, Kelly, Marc Karlin, Humphry Trevelyan and James Scott) working under the moniker Berwick Street Film Collective filmed women who spent nights cleaning the office buildings around London. This November, to mark the 50th anniversary of Nightcleaners, LUX are sharing the film online until the…
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Land Cinema, Becca Voelker’s season curated in tandem with her upcoming book, is playing at Barbican until the end of November. Land Cinema ‘unearths an enduring green counter culture,’ screening everything from political documentaries to the experimental shorts of celebrated artist Ana Vaz. The programme attempts to capture the essence of “land cinema,” the title…
