Film London Jarman Award 2026: New Writing
The Film London Jarman Award 2026Film London presents a collection of new writing on the artists shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2026.
Writer and artist Dylan Huw considers how Sadia Pineda Hameed engages with the endurance of memory, emotion and solidarity through her engagement with archival film and speculative storytelling.
Responding to Ilona Sagar’s Other Actors (2025), journalist and critic Oliver Basciano considers how Sagar imagines new forms of citizenship and inclusiveness suggested by the utopian ideals of Paimio Sanatorium.
In a reflection upon Rhea Storr's Okay Keskidee! Let Me See Inside (2025), film curator Abiba Coulibaly describes the experience of distance that mediates the film's journey to significant sites of London's Caribbean community.
Artist Jasleen Kaur describes the personal and political resonances of Alia Syed's The Ring in the Fish (2025), which brings together the stories of first-generation South Asian migrants who arrived in Glasgow in the 1960s and 70s.
Commissioned in response to films showcased in the Jarman Award tour, the texts are available to read in a free publication available at partner venues and on the Film London website at the links below.
