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‘Exceptional’: Jarman award nominees range from Algerian mountains to east London roads

Six-strong, ‘rich and diverse’ shortlist announced for the £10,000 prize well-known for spotting rising stars of British art

What home means … Morgan Quaintance’s Available Light (2024)Also firmly on the road is Machine Boys, a 2024 film by the Hamburg-based Karimah Ashadu that delves into the macho world of motorcycle taxi drivers in Nigeria’s largest city. Elsewhere on the shortlist are artist, writer and musician Morgan Quaintance, whose 2024 film Available Light uses interviews with people renting in both Tokyo and London in order to explore what the idea of home means in a big city, and George Finlay Ramsay, the Scottish film-maker behind 2024’s Flesh, Wax and Glass II: The Age of the Son, which focuses on a grieving Calabrian lorry driver performing a bloody ritual during Holy Week. ‘Voice and vision’ … Hope Strickland’s a river holds a perfect memory (2024)Last year, Maryam Tafakory was awarded the prize for works that had been inspired by her watching 417 films made in post-revolution Iran.

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