Moving Image Notebooks celebrates the first decade of the Film London Jarman Award and its artists. It takes as its starting point the award's patron, Derek Jarman-an eclectic icon of British art and filmmaking of the final decades of the 20th Century. Jarman was a bold and unruly artist, not afraid to test, push and dismantle confining boundaries and conservative norms. The Jarman Award focuses on artists that represent these qualities in contemporary artist filmmaking in the UK. It is not about the archetypal Jarman-esque visual style, but rewarding those that are to the British art of the early twenty first century what Derek Jarman was to his times.
Moving Image Notebooks are about the richness, variety, depth and pandemonium of contemporary film, video and installation practice in the UK. Jarman Award shortlisted and winning artists share the usually unseen material behind their accomplished works-sketchbook pages, drawings, costume designs, notes, storyboards, proposals, production stills, fragments of scripts, voiceover drafts, poems and production diaries.
