Tag: video art
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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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Umi Ishihara’s solo exhibition Nocturnal Melody, her first in Europe, follows with a curious ambivalence the lives and ambitions of two dancers in a Shibuya gentleman’s club, inviting viewers into Tokyo’s seedy alternative nightlife scene. Across two galleries, Ishihara builds a colourful, kaleidoscopic account of this nocturnal world. She intersperses documentary footage with direct camera addresses by…
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In May 2026, Zineb Sedira takes her explorations of identity and migration to the Duveen Galleries. The show will be part of the Tate Britain Commission. Encouraging responses to the building’s neo-classical architecture, the Tate Britain Commission allows the space to remain alive, providing artists with the opportunity to reinvent the experience of walking through…
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United at NıCOLETTı last autumn, Valentin Noujaïm brings his urban enigmas Pacific Club (2022) and To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion (2024), where they were joined by Demons to Diamonds, fresh off its gallery tour in 2025, to complete the artist’s La Défense Trilogy. While the films attempt to mystify a topic widely written about, the…
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In conjunction with their ongoing exhibition Lucy Raven: Rounds, an investigation into landscape shaped by industry and extraction, the Barbican screened a double bill of the filmmaker’s seldom circulated China Town (2009), and Jean Luc-Godard’s Opération béton (1955). Much like Raven’s latest film Murderers Bar (2025), receiving its UK premiere at the Barbican exhibition, China…
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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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The first two parts of George Finlay Ramsay’s exploration of community, ritual, and the documentary’s role in mythicisation are screening as part of the Film London Jarman Award 2025 shortlist. Beginning somewhat on the nose, one slowly realises that Flesh, Wax and Glass Pt I & II is investigating more than just a blood-letting ritual.…
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Until the end of this month, the latest multi-screen installation project from filmmaker Naeem Mohaiemen, Through a Mirror, Darkly, plays at Albany House in Westminster, an old office building deep in the administrative centre of the UK. The building is opposite the Ministry of Justice, and used to house the British Transport Building. But this…
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This month, the Film London Jarman Award 2025 will show off the best of artists’ moving image from recent years. The programme is touring the UK, with London’s Whitechapel Gallery hosting the award ceremony later in November. This year’s shortlist includes films by Karimah Ashadu, Morgan Quaintance, Hope Strickland, Onyeka Igwe and others, all of…
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As London gets colder, the BFI launches London Film Festival, an 11-day blaze that warms Southbank with new cinema. Classed into their ever-enigmatic categories, there’s something for everyone, from Julia Ducournau to Sergei Loznitsa. Bookending these are Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, and Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero. But…
