Film London Jarman Award | Screening and Q&A with Rosalind Nashashibi

LUX Scotland will host the Film London Jarman Award for the sixth year, presenting a screening of the shortlisted artists’ works and a Q&A with shortlisted artist Rosalind Nashashibi at CCA cinema at 6pm on Tuesday, 5 November.

The artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2024 are Larry Achiampong, Maeve Brennan, Melanie Manchot, Rosalind Nashashibi, Sin Wai Kin, and Maryam Tafakory.

Sin Wai Kin’s visually striking and immersive work Dreaming the End uses a range of characters to explore binaries and the categories we create to make sense of experience. Through the lens of archaeology, and the illicit trade of ancient relics, Maeve Brennan’s An Excavation looks at history’s interaction with our modern life, giving context to the present moment. Shot on a hacked Game Boy camera, Larry Achiampong’s film A Letter (Side B) negotiates urgent issues of depression, digital anxiety and inter-generational trauma, as it looks at institutional structures that threaten the lives of migrants and refugee families. Melanie Manchot’s mesmerising nocturnal film Liquid Skin shines a light on night-time workers in Germany’s Rhine region, allowing the people she collaborates with to have a voice and to tell their own story. Drawing from William Blake’s 1794 poem ​‘The Sick Rose’, Rosalind Nashashibi allowed her film The Invisible Worm to grow like a weed out of the daily life of her own community. An exploration of non-linear time and corruption, Nashashibi’s work is brimming with the joy and physicality of her analogue film medium. Maryam Tafakory’s work layers archival films, text and images to explore issues of censorship and prohibition. Her film Nazarbazi, translating as ​‘The play of glances’, posits that if we try to erase something it inevitably becomes more pronounced and expands.

Programme

18:00 Introduction
18:05 Rosalind Nashashibi, The Invisible Worm, (2024) 17 min
18:22 Q&A with Rosalind Nashashibi 45 mins
19:07 A 10 minute comfort break
19:17: Screening of works by Maeve Brennan, Larry Achiampong, Melanie Manchot, Maryam Tafakory, Sin Wai Kin (103 mins)
21:00 Finish

Rosalind Nashashibi is a London based artist of Northern Irish and Palestinian descent. Her media are film and painting, and paintings appear frequently in her films, which chronicle intimate moments of contemporary life with an empathetic and personal approach. Nashashibi is preoccupied with looking, in a way that almost crosses over into the other camp, passing onto the side of the subject in a way that can be disconcerting or funny. Her films are punctuated by manifestations of power dynamics and collective histories. Subjects have included non-nuclear family structures, the multiple versions of the artist myth and chronicling life in Palestine.

Accessibility

SDH captioning on all except one film. Printed subtitles will be provided for this film. Q&A will be live captioned.