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Hacked Game Boys and horseplay! Jarman award shortlist celebrates thinking outside the box
Video artists Larry Achiampong and Rosalind Nashashibi are among those nominated for the prestigious £10,000 prize – which has a strong record of spotting UK art talent
His 2022 film Wayfinder thrives on juxtaposition, as a young woman discusses, among other things, funeral directors and pandemic deaths while strolling through a deserted Dreamland fairground. Denim Sky (2022) was structured according to the ancient Chinese oracle I Ching, yet her hypnotic 2015 film Electrical Gaza – recorded shortly before the Israeli bombardment in the summer of 2014 – is no less relevant to today’s world. Elsewhere, London-based artist Maeve Brennan’s 2023 film installation With Horses features a newborn foal being tended to by its dying parent in a field strewn with plastic bags, while Maryam Tafakory’s work makes use of found footage and the cinematic traditions of post-revolutionary Iran.
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