Jarman award shortlist features carnival, kabaddi and home videos

The Film London Jarman award shortlist has been reduced to four artists: Sadia Pineda Hameed, Ilona Sagar, Rhea Storr and Alia Syed. The £10,000 prize honours British artists working with moving images, and this year’s nominees probe everything from carnival ritual and asbestos poisoning to kabaddi and family home footage.

Sadia Pineda Hameed, based in the Ebbw valley, presents Anak Where Did We Stay?, a five-channel work that weaves family camcorder footage with archive material on Beatlemania and protests against Enoch Powell. Aeroplane and road travel footage map her mother’s migration from the Philippines to Britain, and the film sits in dialogue with Joshua Reynolds’s 1776 Portrait of Omai.

Alia Syed, born in Swansea and now working between London and Glasgow, brings work from a 40-year practice, including Snow (2019), a video diary using footage shot by her father in the winter of 1995/6 when they were not speaking.

Britain, Ebbw Valley; Swansea; London; Glasgow

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