Author: Oisín McGilloway
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Onyeka Igwe and Margan 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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Reading like an Ibsen play, but with the severity of occupation as a backdrop, Laila Abbas’ sophomore feature Thank You For Banking With Us!, nominated for Best Film at last year’s BFI London Film Festival, brings comedy and drama to an unenviable situation, but with morale and vitality for family life rather than nihilism. Thank…
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Over 150 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) have voted to strike from 26th November until 2nd December. Of the 87.72% turnout at the ballot box, 98% voted for industrial action. The move comes after Tate’s workforce suffered redundancies this year in the second restructuring since 2020, according to the PCS. They…
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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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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…
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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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London Palestine Film Festival, which will return to the capital later next month, has released its programme. While geographically centred on the land of Palestine, the programme takes us through melancholic, didactic, comedic, and, most of all, thought-provoking films that bridge the over 2000-mile gap to London. Through these many methods, the films tackle the…
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Concept artist Ilê Sartuzi brings A Crime, a Confession and a Trade, the culmination of his Sleight of Hand project, to NıCOLETTı. A two-channel video installation that played at São Paulo’s Museu de Arte Contemporânea a couple of years ago, Sleight of Hand left a lot of critics confused; not only asking “did that just…
