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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Tim Jonze

From Poirot to poppers! Jarman award shortlist celebrates ‘risk-taking’ film-makers

Holding it together … a still from Alberta-Whittle, 2020’s Holding The Line
Holding it together … a still from Alberta-Whittle, 2020’s Holding The Line Photograph: Alberta Whittle

From Agatha Christie novels to montages of gay porn, the source material for the 2022 Film London Jarman award nominees list is as varied as the work itself.

This year’s contenders for the £10,000 prize include British-Kenyan filmmaker Grace Ndiritu, whose 2021 film Black Beauty sets an advert for factor 5,000 skin cream against a hallucinatory television interview with the writer Jorge Luis Borges. And Onyeka Igwe, a London-based artist whose 2022 film The Miracle on George Green tells the story of the children who tried to save an ancient sweet chestnut tree in Wanstead, east London by writing letters addressed to the treehouse inside it.

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