For the second year in a row LOOP collaborates with the Catalan television station betevé to broadcast a selection of artists’ short films commissioned by the film and media agency Film London and Channel 4 over the last ten years. Since 2008 the annual Film London Jarman Award, which celebrates artist filmmakers’ creative practise, has partnered with Channel 4 to commission short moving image works of between three and four minutes for television and online. Commissioned from artists from each year’s shortlist, the films form part of Random Acts, a broadcast showcase of original short form creative content by artists from a multitude of different practices. The selection put together for LOOP gathers works from international artists such as Rachel Maclean, Marianna Simnett and Andrea Luka Zimmerman, which illustrate the variety in form and content within artists’ moving image work that the Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) celebrates.
Maggie Ellis is Head of Film London’s Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), a department that commissions artists’ films (shorts and features), runs the prestigious annual Jarman Award, tours work nationally and internationally, and has a development programme for emerging artist filmmakers. Since being established in 2005, we have delivered a slate of 150 films. Maggie has been in the film and television industries for almost 30 years and has benefitted from the experience of working in a variety of technical roles, with broadcasters, distributors and associated companies. She has worked as a freelance sound recordist, stills photographer and producer. Throughout her career, she has had the pleasure of working with many talented filmmakers across documentary, fiction and animation productions. Maggie is a film advisor to a number of companies and cultural organisations, is on the Board of Sheffield Media and Exhibition Centre and a member of Cine-Regio, a European network of film funders.
Last update 12nd November 2018
Rose Cupit, Manager of the Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN). Through FLAMIN, and with funding from Arts Council England, Film London supports London-based artists working with moving image, offering production funding and training, as well as showcasing this work to grow audiences worldwide. FLAMIN has commissioned over 150 productions, and supported the careers of countless artists with programmes of one-to-one sessions, residencies and workshops. Flagship projects from FLAMIN include the commissioning fund FLAMIN Productions and the annual Film London Jarman Award.
May 26th, 2016
Carolina Ciuti is a contemporary art curator and researcher in the fields of visual and performing arts. She holds a BA in History and Preservation of the Artistic Heritage from the University of Florence (2009-2012) and an MA in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London (2013-2015). During her university training, she collaborated with the Collezione Gori: Fattoria di Celle (Pistoia) and the artists residency Villa Lena (Pisa), being respectively in charge of the educational proposals, the guided tours and the assistance to the director. She currently serves as artistic director of the LOOP video art festival in Barcelona, where she started working in 2015 as a curator. At LOOP, she has produced exhibitions, film programmes and performances by internationally recognised artists such as: Regina de Miguel, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Aleksandra Mir, Muntadas, Steina and Woody Vasulka and Anton Vidokle. She curated the group exhibitions And If Seeing Was Fire (Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2020), One Day I Stumbled Upon A Meteorite (Fabra i Coats – Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona, 2019), PRODUCE, PRODUCE, PRODUCED (Real Cercle Artístic, Barcelona, 2018), the projects Francesca Banchelli: Before The Name (MACBA, Barcelona, 2016) and TRANSEUROPE EXPRESS (OfficeCafè, Pistoia, 2015), as well as the video programmes presented by LOOP at Cinéphèmère-FIAC Paris (editions 2017, 2018, 2019). She edited the publications One Day I Stumbled Upon a Meteorite (exhibition catalogue, stuffinabook, 2020), I Have A Friend Who Knows Someone Who Bought a Video, Once (LOOP Barcelona, Mousse Publishing, 2016) and Before The Name: a book on an itinerant performance project. (RAM Editions, 2018). Ciuti is a permanent collaborator of the magazine of contemporary culture La Maleta de Portbou and she frequently contributes to the art catalogues of the publishing house Istituto Italiano Edizioni ATLAS. In 2017, she co-founded the art collective CRiB to create hybrid projects straddling the visual arts, theatre and performance. Whether through writing, curating, or research, all of Carolina’s projects denote a deep interest in the notion of ‘time’ in all its facets, its representation in the philosophical and cultural sphere, and its influence on the construction of identities.
Last update 3rd October 2020