Film London Lodestar 2025: Edd Carr
Film London Lodestars 2025Artist Filmmaker
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.
Relationship to Film London
Edd Carr’s innovative practice uses plant-based materials to develop analogue film and photography, creating urgent work that responds to our relationship with the natural world. Edd’s FLAMIN Fellowship project – I Am a Dale – is a moving image series exploring rural England, blending memory, fiction, ecology, and trauma to challenge idyllic views of the landscape. The project has been selected as part of the London Film Festival’s Experimenta Works in Progress presentation, which is a fantastic platform for the project to engage with a wide audience.