James Edmonds
born 1983, Eastbourne, UK
lives and works in Berlin
Education
2002-2005: BA Honours Fine Art Painting, University of Brighton
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2023
Currents NYFF, New York Film Festival, New York, USA
Recent S8-Works / Frankfurt Forms, Städelschule, EXFF, Frankfurt, Germany
Distant Messaging, aCinema, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Dawn Chorus, performance as Grass Harp (w.Petra Graf), Enttäuscher Mich 24h Frühstück, Haus der Statistik, Berlin
Underneath the Floorboards, London, UK
2022
Frontera Sur, festival Internacional de Cine de No Ficción, Chile
New York Film Diaries, New York
Crossroads 2022 Online Echo, curated by Steve Polta,www.sfcinematheque.org
DOBRA - Int’l Experimental Film Festival, Cinemateca do MAM (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil)
Open City Documentary Festival, London
Lateral, Cinema San Nicola, Cosenza, Italy
Crossroads, Grey Area, San Francisco
Non-Syntax, Taipei, Taiwan
Fracto, Experimental Film Encounter, Acud, Berlin
Prismatic ground, Maysles Documentary Center, New York
Machinalive, Nomadica at LABA 2022, Brescia, Italy
Peripheries - Natural States, (online)
Chapters And Remnants: The Films Of James Edmonds (solo program), Spectacle, Queens, New York
First Look, Museum of the Moving Image, New York
FICUNAM - Umbrales, Mexico City
FLorida EXperimental Film and Video Festival (FLEX), Tampa, FL
Coming Into Focus, Ultradogma Virtual Film Festival, Berlin (online)
2021
Festival internacional Signos da Noite, Lisboa (online)
Großes Kino Kleines Kino, Silent Green, Berlin
Prisme#4 (MIRE), Le Cinématographe, Nantes, France
1st Annual Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, NY, USA
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle WA, USA
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, Spool Contemporary Art Space, Johnson City, NY, USA
Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Acud, Berlin
Mur Murs, Redcat Cal Arts Theater, Los Angeles, USA
Channeling Structures, (group exhib./screening), S-L-I-C-E, Uferstudios, Berlin
Laterale Film Festival, Cinema San Nicola, Cosenza, Italy
EXiS - Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
A Tiny Bit Of Fire (group exhibition), Warbling Collective, 139 Whitfield Street, London
Underneath the Floorboards, London (online)
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany (online)
Screener Short Films, Hackney, London (online)
2020
Strom/Situation, performative screening, Artspring Berlin (livestream online)
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul (online)
Großes Kino, kleines Kino #33: Die Kunst der Filmprojektion, Kino Arsenal, Berlin
2019
Cámara Lúcida, Cuenca, Ecuador
Nomadica – Weekend On the Moon 2019, Menomale, Bologna
Headroom Screening Series, University of Iowa IA
Too Close To Home, Shadowbox Studio, Durham NC
Eureka University Film Festival, Bogota, Colombia
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), Melbourne
Experimental Competition, Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal
Inside/Outside (solo film program as installation), Studio Im hochhaus, Berlin
Lateral Film Festival, Cosenza, Italy
Fragments Past and Present (solo screening), Artsrping, Atelier Spitzmüller, Milchhof e.V, Berlin
Braziers Mini Indi Film Festival, ,Oxfordshire, UK
Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Acud, Berlin
Short Cuts #6 (solo film presentation), Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
Spectral Film Festival, Stevens Point, WI
Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF), Ann Arbor, MI
Light Field, San Francisco, CA
FLorida EXperimental Film and Video Festival (FLEX), Tampa, FL
2018
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Beyoglu Yesilcam Cinema, Istanbul
Swedenborg Film Festival, The Swedenborg Society, London
James Edmonds - Films with soundtracks, w. Michael Freerix, Studio Im Hochhaus, Lichtenberg, Berlin
Compressed Air, Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston Cinema Arts Society, Houston, TX
Weekend Coi Morti, Nomadica, Spazio Menomale, Bologna
Transient Visions, Spool Contemporary Art Space, Johnson City, NY
Projections NYFF, New York Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
The Unseen Festival (Separated by the Sea), Counterpath, Denver, CO
TIFF Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto
Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, St. Petersburg
Expo2001∞ (group exhibition), Argh!, Berlin
Fracto festival, ACUD macht neu, Berlin
Untitled, solo audio-visual super8 performance, Spektrum, Berlin
Light Movement 29: Spring Portraits, 21st April, Spektrum, Berlin
Cinema Parenthese, solo film presentation, Greylight Projects, Brussels
Process Experimental Film Festival, Riga
2017
ULTRAcinema, Puebla, Mexico
Idiosyncratics label night (audiovisual performance), Cafe Central, Brussels
Âge d’Or Festival, CINEMATEK, Brussels
Light Movement Athens (as part of 11472CTY) Open Air Cinema Riviera, Exarcheia, Athens
11472CTY (exhibition w.Petra Graf), 3 137, Athens
Fracto festival, ACUD macht neu, Berlin
Process Experimental Film Festival, Riga
NE555, (solo screening +performance w. Nicola Tirabasso), Kinodromo, Bologna
Nocturnal Reflections (solo screening +performance w. Nicola Tirabasso), Macao, Milan
Metronomics, Another Vacant Space, Berlin
Autogestión (as part of Adam Nankervis' MuseumMAN piece), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
Underneath the Floorboards, Hackney Attic, London
2016
The Material Question, (solo presentation) Directors Lounge, Z-Bar, Berlin
Overland - an Overview, (solo presentation/ edition launch) Grass Harp, Berlin
Sound Projections, film performance with live soundtrack, with Sylvia Schedelbauer & J. Surak, Spektrum Berlin
[auslands-filme], (solo presentation) Ausland, Berlin
Light Movement 11, Spektrum, Berlin
2015
Another Vacant Space at Summa Contemporary, Madrid
Idiosyncratics label night (audiovisual performance), Cafe Central, Brussels
Fronteira International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil
Overland Collages, film performance with live soundtrack, w. Esel Durch Wiederholung, eXperimontag, Mme Claude, Berlin
The Temenos Screening, Kino Xenix, Zurich
2014
It Narratives: The Movement of Objects as Information (for David Horvitz exhibition), Franklin Street Works, Stamford CT, USA
Vom Anhalten des Verschwindens (group exhibition), Lamspringer September, Lamspringe, Germany
The Marble Publicist (performance with Daniel Kupferberg), Superposition, Lehrter Siebzehn, Berlin
The Silence of a Movement, curated by Susanne Neubauer and HBK Braunschweig. Another Vacant Space, Berlin
2013
Dumbo Glow - Winter Videos in The Triangle, Curated by Leo Kuelbs and John Ensor Parker, New York
The Cuttıng Room, Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, UK
Material Cinema (Blue), film performance with live soundtrack, Salon Bruit in Tiefgrund, Berlin
Material Cinema, (solo exhibition/film performance, live sound), Echo Buecher, Berlin
<<ANTENNAE>> (within exhibition of Daniel Kupferberg) Another Vacant Space, Berlin
2012
Light Movement Music, film performance with live soundtrack, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V, Berlin
Compounds of a Prism, Another Vacant Space, Berlin2011
Freitag Kino 4, august 20th, tamtamart, Berlin
Leistungsschau, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, 10. bis 30. Juni, Berlin
Black Stars on a White Sky, 28th april-1st may 2011, Another Vacant Space, Berlin
grand officiallee opening of "................" / Opacity Materials (solo presentations/film screenings), wflctn at Artport, Berlin
2010
Accidents/incidents and unpredicted events, Kinosaal in K77, Berlin
But what about the noise of crumpling paper..., wflctn at Artport, Berlin
Temporary Roots, (solo presentation) tamtamart, Berlin
File #1, an exhibition by St. & St., The Foundry, London
Glow, Z-Bar, Berlin
2009
Inside Outside, film performance with live soundtrack, 113 Dalson Lane, London
Films Without Music (curated), Staalplaat Working Space, Berlin
A Spires Embers (Museum MAN), Eidos Foundation/Gogolfest, Mystetskyi Arsenal Lavra, Kiev
Should The World Break In (MuseumMAN) Bereznitsky Gallery, Kiev
Reliquaries of Empires Dust (MuseumMAN) Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin
Mobile, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich UK
2006
Live Sound and Super8 Films (audiovisual performance) with Lara Schroder, Electronic Church, Berlin
Oil Rig Catering, The Permanent Gallery, Brighton (as part of Oil Rig Catering tour)
2005
Art in the Age of New Technologies, ACCEA, Armenia
Progart, University of Brighton, Brighton UK
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Music performances at various locations mostly between 2006 and 2013
Grants & awards
2022 Short Film Funding, German Federal Film Board (FFA), Berlin, Germany
2020 Nomination for The German Film Critic's Prize 2019: Best Experimental Film, Berlin, Germany
2019 Special Mention, German Competition Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
Selected press & publications
Gabriel Linhares Falcão, Configurations (2021), de James Edmonds in LIMITE Revista No.8 (published in 2022) at [limiterevista.com]
José Manuel Cruz Barragán, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periferico in Cinearte Magazine (published in 2021) at [cineartemagazine.com]
Carolina Reyes, Seasons/Patterns (James Edmonds) & Glimpses From… (Ute Aurand) in El Cine Probablemente (2021)
Lina Louisa Krämer, James Edmonds – Flickering Everyday in Shortfilm.de (published in 2019) at [shortfilm.de]
Mattia Fiorino, A Home of Geometry and Poetry in il tempo impresso (published in 2019) at [iltempoimpresso.com]
Fred Balz, Kurzfilmabend in der Mainzer Kunsthalle in Mainz Allgemeine Zeitung (2019)
Toni Pipolo, Strangest Things: on Projections at the 56th New York Film Festival in Artforum (published in 2018) at [artforum.com]
Michael Sicinski, We Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Contrarians in MUBI Notebook (published in 2018) at [mubi.com]
Jordan Cronk, Cosmic Curiosities in BFI Sight and Sound Magazine (published in 2018) at [bfi.org.uk]
Alonso Castro, A Return (James Edmonds, 2018) in Desistfilm (published in 2018) at [desistfilm.com]
Toni D’Angela, Chaos Versus Frame: James Edmonds in La Furia Umana No.28 (published in 2016) at [lafuriaumana.it]
Toni D’Angela The Splendor Of The World, in La Furia Umana No.26 (published in 2015) at [lafuriaumana.it]
Professional contributions
2023: Workshop leader, Gustave Eiffel Schule/Freie Kunst AG, Berlin, Germany
2023: Workshop leader, Multimedia Art, Clavis Schule, Berlin, Germany
2023: Workshop leader, Gustave Eiffel Schule/Animation AG (with Petra Graf), Berlin, Germany
2021: Curator, S-L-I-C-E/Ufer Studios/Channelling Structures (group exhibition & film screening), Berlin, Germany
2015-2018: Curator, Spectrum/Light Movement (film screening series), Berlin, Germany
2017: Curator, Hotel Maria Kapel/Architectural Collage (guest of artist in residence Alanna Lawley), Hoorn, The Netherlands
2017: Curator, Cinema Riviera/The Outskirts of a Dreamed Map (as part of the exhibition 11472CTY), Athens, Greece
2017: Workshop leader, 3 137/Super8 film & Slide-making workshop (with Petra Graf and KID-A), Athens, Greece
2016: Workshop leader, Herder Gymnasium/Visual Poems without Sound, (with Ute Aurand), Berlin, Germany
Contributed texts
Helga Fanderl, Konstellationen Super 8. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2023
Jeannette Muñoz - The Landscape As a Sea, Revista Lumiere, 2017
La Furia Umana No. 27, To Stan Brakhage, La Furia Umana, 2015
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All images are the property of James Edmonds unless otherwise stated. Not to be reproduced in any form without prior written permission