Events
Film London Jarman Award 2026 | Screening and Q&A with Rhea Storr
LUX Scotland and Filmhouse will host the Film London Jarman Award 2026, presenting a screening of the shortlisted artists’ work and a Q&A with shortlisted artist Rhea Storr at Filmhouse, Edinburgh. This is the eighth time LUX Scotland have hosted the Film London Jarman Award and we’re excited to welcome Rhea to Edinburgh for this special event.
The artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2026 are Sadia Pineda Hameed, Ilona Sagar, Rhea Storr, and Alia Syed.
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 24 November 2026. The award is presented in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery. The tour runs from 22 September 2026 to 21 January 2027, in partnership with nine arts venues across the UK.
Rhea Storr
Rhea Storr makes films that consider Black, mixed-race and diaspora cultures, including her own Bahamian-British ethnicity. She explores the in-between, translation, format and aesthetics, that depict themes such as masquerade, the performances of Black women, community space, and racialised subjects in rural or public landscapes. She has a long standing interest in the counter-cultural use of analogue film, embracing DIY practices and alternative spaces in order to depict Caribbean subjects who are themselves also marginalised. Storr was educated at Oxford University, RCA and Goldsmiths, University of London where she completed her doctorate. Her research explores the intersection of Black identities and experimental filmmaking practices.
Programme
5.30pm: Rhea Storr, ‘Okay Keskidee! Let Me See Inside’ (2025, 20 minutes)
6.05pm: Q&A with Rhea Storr
6.45pm: Comfort break
6.55pm: Screening
- Alia Syed, ‘The Dhaba – 1st Chapter: Mr Sharif and 2nd Chapter: Mr Bhari’ (2025, 30 minutes)
- Sadia Pineda Hameed, ‘Moving Sound’ (2025, 8 minutes)
- Ilona Sagar, ‘Other Actors’ (2025, 60 minutes)
8.35pm: Ends
Shortlist
Sadia Pineda Hameed is a Filipina Pakistani artist based in the Ebbw Valley, Wales, whose work explores ways to speak about collective and intergenerational trauma through anticolonial strategies of dreaming, telepathic communion and secrets. Using 16mm film and hi8 video, sculptural installation, text and performance, her work imagines what future tools for resistance, value and communication springing from these strategies might look like. Her practice is led by a processes of associative journeying in resistance to western historicisation and displacement; mythmaking, melodrama and decoy become playful devices to speak through a ‘delirious discourse’ where personal archives and collective experiences converge. She has shown with Iniva, Brent Biennial 2022, The Crypt Gallery and The Mosaic Rooms in London; The Bluecoat, Liverpool; The Box, Plymouth; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; Tangent Projects, Barcelona; Zamek, Poznan; Mostyn, Llandudno; Glynn Vivian, Swansea; Chapter Arts Centre, g39 and Arcade/Campfa, Cardiff, amongst others. She was awarded the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Porthmeor Studio Residency 2026, Arts Council Wales Perspectives Fellowship 2024, British School at Rome Fellowship 2023, Freelands Fellowship 2022, Jerwood UNIT(e) Residency 2021 and the Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists in 2021. Her films have been selected for Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2026, Wales One World Film Festival 2026, FOCUS Wales 2026 and Queer East Film Festival 2025.
Ilona Sagar is a London-based artist and filmmaker, and resident of Somerset House Studios. Drawing on archival research and interdisciplinary collaboration, her work explores how civic and social identities are constructed and contested through the infrastructures of health, technology, and the body. Recent projects include Other Actors (Stanley Picker Fellowship, 2025), currently touring to the Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki, Nordic House Reykjavík and Röhsska Museum Gothenburg. Her work has been presented internationally in venues including the 24th International Exhibition at Triennale Milano, Serpentine Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Wellcome Collection, CCA Glasgow, Villa Arson Centre National d’Art Contemporain and Art Rotterdam. In 2027, she will undertake a collaborative research project with neurologists at King’s College London and the University of Eastern Finland in partnership with Saastamoinen Foundation. Forthcoming work includes projects with Cement Fields and a solo commission with public programme at Somerset House Studios.
Rhea Storr’s recent screenings and exhibitions include: MoMA Doc Fortnight; New York Film Festival; BFI London Film Festival; Berwick Film and Media Artist Festival; European Media Art Festival; Kassel Doc Fest and Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn. Exhibitions include – ‘Artist Film International’, Whitechapel Gallery; Bangkok Kunsthalle; Tate Lates; Somerset House; Lisson Gallery; National Museum for African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.; Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts; VIAD and Brown University and CIRCAxDAZED London, FotoMuseum. She is the winner of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2020, the inaugural Louis Le Prince Experimental Film Prize, the Royal Photographic Society Award for Creativity Contribution to Art in Moving Image 2023, the Kodak Award at Hamburg International Film Festival 2025 and runner up Best British Short at London Short Film Festival 2025. Rhea Storr’s ‘New Territories (spectacle is king)’ screened at the Barbican in August as part of the exhibition and film season ‘Project A Black Planet’.
Alia Syed was born in Swansea, and works between London and Glasgow. For over 40 years, she has made experimental films that disrupt traditional narrative structures to create complex explorations of migration and colonialism, identity and place. Her work navigates geography, memory, and the fragmented nature of diasporic identity. Syed’s films have been shown at numerous institutions around the world including, BBC Arts Online (currently), Tigers an Dragons: India and Wales in Britain (currently) Glynn Vivian; CCA Glasgow (2025); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2023); Courtisane Festival, Belgium (2019); WKV, Stuttgart (2019); Yale Centre for British Art (2019); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2012 – 13), 5th Moscow Biennale (2013); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2009); XV Sydney Biennale (2006); Hayward Gallery, London (2005); Tate Britain, London (2003); Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Scotland (2002); Iniva, London (2002); The New Art Gallery in Walsall (2002); and Tate Modern, London (2000). Syed’s films have also been the subject of several solo exhibitions at Talwar Gallery in New York and New Delhi. She was nominated for the Film London Jarman Award in 2015 and the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists in 2020.
Access
Live captions: The introduction and Q&A will be live captioned.
Subtitles: Dialogue will be subtitled. The screening will not have captions for sound descriptions.
Access Fund
A limited access fund is available to support attendance, which can be used for lack of funds, transport (for access or safety reasons) or the cost of childcare, carers or support workers. This fund will be administered on a first-come, first-served basis, so please get in touch as soon as you can. For further information about access please email David Upton (Public Programme Manager) if there is anything you would like to discuss to support your participation, email hidden; JavaScript is required.
Venue
Filmhouse is located in Edinburgh City Centre and is accessible by bike, bus, train, car, taxi and tram. You can find out more about how to get to Filmhouse here.
The event will take place in Cinema 2 at Filmhouse. Filmhouse is a wheelchair accessible venue. Please contact Filmhouse to book a wheelchair accessible seat, and find out more about accessibility at the venue here.
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN)
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.
Film London
Film London is the capital’s screen industries agency. We connect ideas, talent and finance to develop a pioneering creative culture in the city that delivers success in film, television, animation, games and beyond. We work to sustain, promote and develop London as a global content production hub, support the development of the city’s new and emerging filmmaking talent and invest in a diverse and rich film culture. Funded by the Mayor of London and the National Lottery through the BFI, we also receive support from Arts Council England, Creative Skillset and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Image descriptions:
1. Composite Jarman 2026 shortlist stills. On the top left a semi transparent figure in coat and hat stands in front of a pebble dash wall and window. A VHS ‘play’ symbol and time code appear on the top right of the image. In the next image on the top right a figure in an elaborate gold, blue and orange carnival costume processes through a dark urban street. To the bottom right a vintage looking image of a woman sitting on an arm chair wearing a white dress and a pillbox hat with a veil and holding a bouquet of flowers smiles towards the camera. On the bottom right a mannequin wearing a blond wig and a white shirt is sillouetted against a smoky background there a man in a white shirt looks towards the mannequin.
2. A portrait of Rhea Storr smiling and looking upwards above the camera. She wears a black top with emerald buttons and curly brown hair against a bright green bamboo background.
Live Captions The introduction and Q&A will be live captioned.
Subtitles Dialogue will be subtitled. The screening will not have captions for sound descriptions.
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Access Fund
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 Scotland.