Spike Island x Watershed: 2025 Film London Jarman Award with Karimah Ashadu

Discover the incredibly diverse landscape of artists' filmmaking in the UK through a special screening of works shortlisted for this year’s Film London Jarman Award. Inspired by visionary British filmmaker Derek Jarman, the award recognises and supports artists working with the moving image. 

Presented in collaboration with Spike Island, we'll be screening the six films shortlisted for this year's award. The event will also include a Q&A with one of the shortlisted artists Karimah Ashadu, who will discuss her film Machine Boys (2024), an intimate and visceral exploration of Lagos’s underground community of motorbike taxi drivers. Through this portrait of forbidden labour, Ashadu examines masculinity, risk, and survival within Nigeria’s patriarchal society.

This year’s shortlisted artists are:

• Karimah Ashadu, Machine Boys (2024), 8 mins
  + Q&A with Karimah Ashadu and Clémentine Proby (Curator, Spike Island) 20 mins
• Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, I Carry It With Me Everywhere (2022), 19 mins
• George Finlay Ramsay, Nursted, from the sleep side (2023), 13 mins
• Onyeka Igwe, The Miracle on George Green (2022), 12 mins
• Morgan Quaintance, Repetitions (2022), 24 mins
• Hope Strickland, a river holds a perfect memory (2024), 17 mins

The winner of the Film London Jarman Award will be announced on Tue 25 Nov. The Award comes with a £10,000 prize and is presented in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery. The tour of the shortlisted artists' films runs from Sat 25 Oct to Sun 14 Dec, in partnership with seven arts venues across the UK.

Read more about each film on the Film London Jarman Award website.
 

 

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