Event

Stream will be available from 21 September, 12:00pm

Join us online for a sneak peak at work by the six shortlisted artists for this year's Film London Jarman Award.

We'll be streaming the nominated films by artists Ayo Akingbade, Andrew Black, Julianknxx, Sophie Koko Gate, Karen Russo and Rehana Zaman right here on our website, ahead of the rest of the programme's tour featuring screenings and live events in cultural venues across the UK and Ireland.

Screenings and live events will be taking place at Nottingham Contemporary, Spike Island (Bristol), g39 (Cardiff), MAC Belfast, Whitechapel Gallery (London) and LUX Scotland (Glasgow). Find out more on the Film London website.

At Towner, stream all six films on 21 September from 12.00pm to 12.00am, and join us online at 6.00pm for a live in-Conversation and Q&A with Karen Russo.

Now in its sixteenth year, the Film London Jarman Award is a £10,000 prize which recognises and supports artists working with moving image and celebrates the spirit of experimentation, imagination and innovation in the work of artist filmmakers in the UK.

The winner of the Film London Jarman Award 2023 will be announced the week of 20 November 2023 at the Barbican Centre, London. In the run-up to the event, art and film lovers can explore the work of the shortlisted artists through a nationwide touring programme presented in partnership with a variety of our cultural venues, including Nottingham Contemporary, Spike Island (Bristol), g39 (Cardiff), MAC Belfast, LUX Scotland (Glasgow), Towner Eastbourne and Whitechapen Gallery (London).

Ayo Akingbade, Jitterbug (2022), 24’

Andrew Black, On Clogger Lane (2023), 60'

Julianknxx, Black Corporeal (Breathing By Numbers) (2022), 16’

Sophie Koko Gate, Hotel Kalura (2021), 5’

Karen Russo, Junkerhaus (2021), 7’

Rehana Zaman, Alternative Economies (2021), 28’

Featuring work from the six artists shortlisted for the 2023 Film London Jarman Award, the tour will offer audiences the chance to explore an extraordinary range of boundary pushing work. While Andrew Black’s films challenge conventional narratives around the British countryside, Sophie Koko Gate’s darkly humorous animations set stories of longing and frustrated desire in dreamlike worlds. Julianknxx highlights the interrelated crises of inequality and air pollution, while Ayo Akingbade crafts a love story to London in a narrative film that follows a day in the life of a Hackney teenager. Rehana Zaman examines the compromised promises of cryptocurrency and the possibilities of alternative modes of exchange, while Karen Russo presents a cinematic exploration of the fantastical carved home of visionary architect Karl Junker.