Morgan Quaintance
Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including: MOMA, New York; Konsthall C, Sweden; David Dale, Glasgow; European Media Art Festival, Germany; Alchemy Film and Arts Festival, Scotland; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami. He was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow.
He was the 2023 IFFR Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards; the recipient of the 2022 ARTE Award at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg; in 2021, the Best Documentary Short Film Award at Tacoma Film Festival, USA; the Explora Award at Curtocircuito International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela; the UK Short Film Award at Open City Documentary Film Festival, London, the Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director at Punto de Vista, Spain, and the Best Experimental Film Award at Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal; in 2020, the New Vision Award at CPH:DOX, Denmark and the Best Experimental Film award at Curtas Vila Do Conde, Portugal.
Portrait of Morgan Quaintance. Photo by Bill Jacobson
Video: Morgan Quaintance, Available Light (2024), excerpt
Morgan Quaintance, Available Light (2024), film still
Video: Morgan Quaintance, Seeikokan (2025), excerpt
Morgan Quaintance, Seeikokan (2025), film still
Morgan Quaintance, Seeikokan (2025), film still
Video: Morgan Quaintance, Repetitions (2022), excerpt
Video: Morgan Quaintance Jarman Award 2022 interview
Video: A Human Certainty, 2021 (excerpt)
Morgan Quaintance, Early Years (2019), film still
Morgan Quaintance, A Human Certainty (2021), film still
Video: South (2020), excerpt
Morgan Quaintance, A Human Certainty (2021), film still
Morgan Quaintance, Missing Time (2019), film still
Video: Letter from Dakar (2019), excerpt
Morgan Quaintance, Letter from Dakar (2019), film still
