This year’s Film London Jarman Awardtour will see the best in contemporary artists’ filmmaking taken to venues across the UK from 3 October – 1 December.

Featuring work from the six artists shortlisted for the 2024 Film London Jarman Award, the tour will offer audiences the chance to explore an extraordinary range of boundary pushing work.

Sin Wai Kin’s visually striking and immersive work Dreaming the End uses a range of characters to explore binaries and the categories we create to make sense of experience. Through the lens of archaeology, and the illicit trade of ancient relics, Maeve Brennan’s An Excavation looks at history's interaction with our modern life, giving context to the present moment. Shot on a hacked Game Boy camera, Larry Achiampong’s film A Letter (Side B) negotiates urgent issues of depression, digital anxiety and inter-generational trauma, as it looks at institutional structures that threaten the lives of migrants and refugee families. Melanie Manchot’s mesmerising nocturnal film Liquid Skin shines a light on night-time workers in Germany’s Rhine region, allowing the people she collaborates with to have a voice and to tell their own story. Drawing from William Blake’s 1794 poem ‘The Sick Rose’, Rosalind Nashashibi allowed her film The Invisible Worm to grow like a weed out of the daily life of her own community. An exploration of non-linear time and corruption, Nashashibi’s work is brimming with the joy and physicality of her analogue film medium. Maryam Tafakory’s work layers archival films, text and images to explore issues of censorship and prohibition. Her film Nazarbazi, translating as ‘The play of glances’, posits that if we try to erase something it inevitably becomes more pronounced and expands.

The 2024 tour will visit venues across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with screenings and artist talks at 7 major arts venues in Glasgow, Belfast, Nottingham, Eastbourne, London, Cardiff and Bristol,accompanied by the opportunity to watch recent works by all the artists. The tour will include a special showcase weekend with all the six artists on 16 & 17November at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

The tour will visit: Barbican Centre, London;The MAC, Belfast; LUX Scotland, Glasgow; g39, Cardiff; Nottingham Contemporary; Spike Island, Bristol; Towner Eastbourne and Whitechapel Gallery, London.

The Jury who selected this year’s shortlist are: Matthew Barrington, Cinema Curator, Barbican; Shaminder Nahal, Commissioning Editor, Arts and Topical, Channel 4; 2023 Jarman Award shortlisted artist, Julianknxx; Ali Roche, Chief Curator, Nottingham Contemporary and Eve Gabereau, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Modern Films and Film London Board Member.

The recipient of the £10,000 award will be announced on at a special celebration in London on 25 November.

Click here to read more about the Film London Jarman Award 2024 tour.