Film Screening: Selected XI

Film Screening: Selected XI

Clockwise from top left: Gaby Sahhar, Truth and Kinship (2020), Film still, courtesy of the artist / Aoibheann Greenan, Dingbox, (2020), Film still, courtesy of the artist / Katayoun Jalilipour, Soosk, (2021), Film still, courtesy of the artist / Sam Grant, Final Poetic, (2020), Film still, courtesy of the artist / Roxy Rezvany, Wifi Rider, (2020), Film still, courtesy of the artist / River Cao, River is My Hometown, (2021), Film still, courtesy of the artist

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This year’s Selected screening brings together some of the best work from early career film and video artists from across the UK in a vibrant programme of recent artists’ moving image.

From Monday 23 – Sunday 29 August, the screening was available on-demand via this page. On Thursday 26 August at 6pm Spike Island hosted a special in conversation and Q&A with Selected XI artists Gaby Sahhar, River Cao and Sam Grant, hosted by Ian Hadyn Smith. Watch the recording here.

The Selected programme was established 11 years ago with the aims of supporting artist filmmakers to gain greater visibility and to bring new, diverse moving image work to audiences. Each year, the artists who are shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award nominate artists who are earlier in their careers and from those nominations a programme is curated by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN).

The artists for the 11th programme of Selected are: River Cao, Sam Grant, Aoibheann Greenan, Katayoun Jalilipour, Roxy Rezvany and Gaby Sahhar.

Programme of work (running order):

Gaby Sahhar, Truth and Kinship (2020), 9:26 mins
River Cao, River is My Hometown (2021), 8:05 mins
Sam Grant, Final Poetic (2020), 1:49 mins
Katayoun Jalilipour, Soosk (2021), 12 mins
Aoibheann Greenan, Dingbox (2020), 5 mins
Roxy Rezvany, Wifi Rider (2020), 13 mins

Selected XI panel composite image

Panel Discussion: Selected XI

On 26 August, Spike Island hosted an online panel discussion between Selected XI artists River Cao, Sam Grant and Gaby Sahhar, hosted by Ian Haydn Smith.

Watch the recording

“… if you’re in search of something experimental, intriguing, challenging, perhaps even perplexing… think of this as a lucky dip, perhaps containing a future Turner Prize winner.” – The Guardian

Produced by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network. Supported by Arts Council England and Film London.