Film London Lodestars 2025: Artist Filmmaker
River Cao
River Yuhao Cao 曹宇豪 (b. 1997, China) is a moving image and performance artist based in London. Cao’s works examine mourning as a regenerative practice, rebuilding landscape from his early memories and discovering the perspective of the revenant. Cao’s work has been featured in the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt; Forma Arts and Media, London; Reference Point 180 The Strand, London; Ugly Duck, London; Sadie Coles HQ, London; Saatchi Gallery, London; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; Spike Island, Bristol; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London among others.
Edd Carr
Edd Carr is an artist based in the UK. Adapting sustainable photographic processes into moving image - his work depicts our relationship to ecological crisis and the wider nonhuman world. Edd is also one of the leaders of the Sustainable Darkroom, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the research, development, and advocacy of eco-friendly alternatives to analogue and digital photography.
His moving image work has been exhibited worldwide, including the Saatchi Gallery, London, Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, DAZED CIRCA exhibited on London’s Piccadilly Circus screen, projection on Denver Clocktower, Colorado, The Tetley, Leeds, The Whitworth, Manchester, Fashion Film Festival Milan, Brazil MVFs, and more. Awards include the Channel 4 Random Acts Award, FLAMIN Film London Fellowship, and the Innovation Award EFEA Festival.
Anna Engelhardt
Anna Engelhardt is an alias of a video artist and writer. Her investigative practice follows the traces of material violence, focusing on what could be seen as the ‘ghost’ of information. The toxic information environments Engelhardt deals with stem from structures of occupation and dispossession. She has shown her work at ICA, London; Kyiv Biennial; Ars Electronica; e-flux; transmediale; Biennial TEA Tenerife; National Gallery of Art, Lithuania, BFI London Film Festival; B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt; The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Oslo.
