We are delighted that Maryam Tafakory's FVU-commissioned film Nazarbazi has been selected for the Film London Jarman Award 2024.

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.

This year's edition of the award features films showcasing a broad range of approaches to the moving image that seamlessly mix old and new technologies. Each work explores contemporary and historical questions around migration, gender, censorship, crime and familial relationships through blurring reality and fiction, performance and authenticity, and structure and time. 

The Film London Jarman Award tour will see the best in contemporary artists’ filmmaking taken to venues across the UK from 3 October – 1 December. The tour will offer audiences the chance to explore an extraordinary range of boundary pushing work by the six artists shortlisted for the prestigious £10,000 prize.
 

Dates:

g39, Cardiff
Thursday 3rd October

Nottingham Contemporary
Tuesday 15th October

Barbican, London
Monday 4th November

Lux Scotland, Glasgow
Tuesday 5th November

Towner Eastbourne
Wednesday 6th November

Spike Island, Bristol
Tuesday 14th November 

Whitechapel Gallery, London
Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th November 

The MAC Belfast
Friday 22nd November 

Whitechapel Gallery, London
Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st December
 

Full programme details: https://filmlondon.org.uk/flamin/the-jarman-award/jarman-award-2024/jarman-award-2024-tour