Events
Film London Jarman Award 2025 | Screening and Q&A with Hope Strickland
LUX Scotland will host the Film London Jarman Award for the seventh year, presenting a screening of the shortlisted artists’ works and a Q&A with shortlisted artist Hope Strickland at Filmhouse, Edinburgh.
The artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2025 are Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, Karimah Ashadu, Onyeka Igwe, Morgan Quaintance, George Finlay Ramsay, and Hope Strickland.
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.
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.
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.
Hope Strickland
Hope Pearl Strickland is an artist-filmmaker working across experimental and documentary-based modes. Strickland’s work has screened internationally at film festivals including the 59th New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival (2022), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2024) and Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (New Cinema Awards, 2024). Presentations in exhibition spaces include Arnolfini, Bristol; Hasselblad Center at Gothenburg Art Museum and Serpentine Galleries, London. Her work has been commissioned by organisations across the UK including FACT, Liverpool, Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale and Film and Video Umbrella. She has presented work at various academic conferences, including the Ruskin School of Art (2021), The University of Birmingham (2024). Strickland was awarded the Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize in 2023.
Shortlist
Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah are an artist duo based in London. Their work is focused on gathering people together to talk, to learn and to create films. Works by Aburawa and Shah have been exhibited at LUX, Humber Street Gallery, Phillida Reid Gallery and as part of the Brent Biennial in 2022. Festival screenings have included CPH:DOX, Dokufest, London Short Film Festival (awarded Best Short Documentary in 2025) and Blackstar (awarded Best Short Documentary in 2024). Screenings of their work have taken place at Camden Arts Centre (2023), Serpentine Galleries (2023), BAFTA, Mosaic Rooms (2024), Nottingham Contemporary, Framer Framed and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C (2024).
Karimah Ashadu is a British-born Nigerian artist and filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including the 60th Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Silver Lion for Promising Young Participant in the International Exhibition. Upcoming exhibitions include the Camden Arts Centre, London. Her work has been shown at Canal Projects and MoMA PS1, New York, Tate Modern, London, Secession, Vienna, Kunstverein, Hamburg, South London Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, and Trautwein Herleth, Berlin. Ashadu is the recipient of other awards such as the Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen (2022) and the ars viva prize (2020). Public collections include MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the City of Geneva Contemporary Art Collection, the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Germany.
George Finlay Ramsay is an artist working with performance, poetry and analogue filmmaking. He was shortlisted for the Margaret Tait Award in 2023 and has presented work at PAF Olomouc, Czech Republic; Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland; Barbican, London; CTM Festival, Denmark; Beijing People’s Art Theatre, China; BFI Southbank, London; Camden Art Centre, London; CCA, Glasgow and Matadero, Spain; MUBI; NTS Radio; Rupert Residency, Lithuania and Nida Art Colony, Lithuania.
Onyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher specialising in moving image. Recent solo exhibitions include at Peer, London; (2024); MoMA PS1, New York (2023); Highline, New York (2022); LUX, London; (2021) and Jerwood Arts, London (2019). Recent group exhibitions have been held at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Nigeria Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Lagos Biennial, Lagos (2024); The Common Guild, Glasgow and South London Gallery, London; (2023). In 2018, Igwe joined Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.), a QTIBIPOC sound system based in South London. B.O.S.S. received a nomination for the Turner Prize in 2021. Igwe’s works are part of the British Film Institute Collection and The Arts Council Collection (UK). She was nominated for the MaxMara Artist Prize for Women 2022 – 24, awarded the 2021 Foundwork Artist Prize, 2020 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Experimental Short Film and was the recipient of the Berwick New Cinema Award in 2019. Igwe will present a solo exhibition for Art Now, Tate Britain in September 2025.
Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including: MOMA, New York; Konsthall C, Sweden; David Dale, Glasgow; European Media Art Festival, Germany; Alchemy Film and Arts Festival, Scotland; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami. He was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow.
He was the 2023 IFFR Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards; the recipient of the 2022 ARTE Award at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg; in 2021, the Best Documentary Short Film Award at Tacoma Film Festival, USA; the Explora Award at Curtocircuito International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela; the UK Short Film Award at Open City Documentary Film Festival, London, the Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director at Punto de Vista, Spain, and the Best Experimental Film Award at Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal; in 2020, the New Vision Award at CPH:DOX, Denmark and the Best Experimental Film award at Curtas Vila Do Conde, Portugal.
Programme
Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, I Carry It With Me Everywhere (2022), 19 mins
Karimah Ashadu, Machine Boys (2024), 8 mins
George Finlay Ramsay, Nursted, from the sleep side (2023), 13 mins
Onyeka Igwe, The Miracle on George Green (2022), 12 mins
Morgan Quaintance, Repetitions (2022), 24 mins
Hope Strickland, a river holds a perfect memory (2024), 17 mins
The Film London Jarman Award
Inspired by visionary British filmmaker Derek Jarman, the Film London Jarman 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.
The Jury who selected this year’s shortlist are: Matthew Barrington, Cinema Curator, Barbican; Shaminder Nahal, Commissioning Editor, Arts and Topical, Channel 4; Maryam Tafakory, 2024 Jarman Awardee; Gilane Tawadros, Director, Whitechapel Gallery; Nicole Yip, Director, Spike Island and Film London Board Member.
Since 2003, Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) has been at the very heart of the sector’s development, bringing artist filmmakers to a wider audience away from the margins. We provide professional support and expert training along with valuable funding and national and international exhibition opportunities in galleries, cinemas and for broadcast. Funded by Arts Council England, FLAMIN has commissioned over 200 productions and supported the careers of countless other artists. Flagship projects from FLAMIN include the commissioning fund FLAMIN Productions, the prestigious annual Film London Jarman Award, and development programmes The FLAMIN Fellowship and FLAMIN Animations, aimed at early career moving image artists.
Access note and content warning
Access note:
Morgan Quaintance’s Repetitions (2022) features strobing.
Content warning:
Hope Pearl Strickland’s a river holds a perfect memory (2024)includes mentions of enslavement.
Partners
This special event is presented in partnership with FLAMIN and Filmhouse Edinburgh.
Part of Film London Jarman Award Touring Programme
Since 2019, LUX Scotland has hosted an artist from the Film London Jarman Award for a special screening and in-conversation in Glasgow.
LUX Scotland has hosted the following shortlisted artists Rosalind Nashashibi (2024), Rehana Zaman (2023), Onyeka Igwe (2022), Larry Achiampong (2021), Andrea Luka Zimmerman (2020), and Imran Perretta (2019).
The Film London Jarman Award recognises and supports artists working with moving image and celebrates the spirit of experimentation, imagination and innovation in the work of UK-based artist filmmakers. The Award is inspired by visionary filmmaker Derek Jarman.
As part of the Film London Jarman Award, work by the shortlisted artists is shown as part of a nationwide touring programme presented in partnership with a variety of cultural venues including Whitechapel Gallery (London), The Barbican (London), Nottingham Contemporary, Spike Island (Bristol), g39 (Cardiff), MAC Belfast, LUX Scotland (Glasgow) and Towner Art Gallery (Eastbourne).