James Edmonds
born 1983, Eastbourne, UK
lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Education
2002-2005: BA Honours Fine Art Painting, University of Brighton
Selected solo exhibitions
2022 Chapters And Remnants: The Films Of James Edmonds (film screening), Spectacle, Queens, New York, USA
2021 Eine Filmauswahl von James Edmonds (film screening), EXFF Tage des Experimentellen Films, Frankfurt, Germany
2021 James Edmonds - An Imprint onto the Medium, (film screening), (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña, Spain
2018 Cinema Parenthese (film screening), Greylight Projects, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Inside/Outside (film installation), Studio Im hochhaus, Berlin, Germany
2019 Short Cuts #6 (film screening), Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
2017 11472CTY (with Petra Graf), 3 137, Athens, Greece
2017 Nocturnal Reflections (film screening +performance w. Nicola Tirabasso), Macao, Milan, Italy
2016 Overland - an Overview, Grass Harp, Berlin, Germany
2016 [auslands-filme] (film screening) Ausland, Berlin, Germany
Selected group exhibitions
2023 Das Unikat im Zeitalter der technischen Reproduzierbarkeit, KVNK, Berlin, Germany
2023 Distant Messaging, aCinema, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2023 Dawn Chorus, performance as Grass Harp (w.Petra Graf), Enttäuscher Mich 24h Frühstück, Haus der Statistik, Berlin
2023 Underneath the Floorboards, London, UK
2022 Frontera Sur, festival Internacional de Cine de No Ficción, Concepción, Chile
2022 Lightfield in LA, Mezzanine, LA Filmforum, Los Angeles, USA
2022 Dobra International Experimental Film Festival, Cinemateca do MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2022 Open City Documentary Festival, Various venues, London, UK
2022 Crossroads, Grey Area, San Francisco, USA
2022 Non-Syntax, Roof Light, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Prismatic ground, Maysles Documentary Center, New York, USA
2022 First Look, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA
2022 Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico City, Mexico
2022 Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Florida, USA
2021 Prisme no.4, Mire/Le Cinématographe, Nantes, France
2021 Mur Murs, Redcat Theater/CalArts, Los Angeles, USA
2021 EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2021 A Tiny Bit Of Fire, Warbling Collective, London, UK
2021 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
2020 Großes Kino, kleines Kino #33: Die Kunst der Filmprojektion, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany
2019 Eureka University Film Festival, Bogota, Colombia
2019 Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2019 Curtas Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal
2019 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
2019 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, USA
2019 Light Field, San Francisco, USA
2018 Swedenborg Film Festival, The Swedenborg Society, London, UK
2018 Projections, New York Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, USA
2018 Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2918 Expo2001∞, Argh!, Berlin, Germany
2017 Âge d’Or Festival, Cinematek, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Metronomics, Another Vacant Space, Berlin, Germany
2015 Fronteira International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil
2015 The Temenos Screening, Kino Xenix, Zurich, Switzerland
Collections
James Edmonds is collected by various private collectors in Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Greece.
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
2022-23: 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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