Harry Lawson
Harry Lawson (b. 1994) is an artist from Sunderland, UK.
He has made experimental moving image work across exhibition, installation and online formats since 2017. His work has been exhibited internationally, with recent shows at Chemist Gallery (London), Zumzeig (Barcelona) and Floating (Berlin).
He has been commissioned and supported by British Film Institute, Arts Council England, Wellcome Trust, Jupiter Woods, Block9 and The FA, amongst others.
His work has been shown on BBCOne, and featured in publications such as The Guardian, Huck, Plaster, Crack, Resident Advisor, Mixmag, Mundial, Copa90 and Hypebeast. His 2020 film, Meat Rack, was selected in The Observer’s Guide to Summer Culture.
In 2023, he exhibited Millwall On The Screen, a three-screen film about football and its role in the South East Bermondsey community- first as a site-specific installation at Wheel Shunters Social Club then as a solo show at Chemist Gallery in Lewisham. It ‘asked viewers to consider their own prejudices’ (The Guardian) and was described as ‘striking and unexpected’ (Huck Magazine).
Harry is currently developing Stepney Western, a participatory arts project centred on a film made in collaboration with a group of young inner city horse riders from Newcastle.
He continues to work as Director of Film and Photography at Identifying The Displaced (an interdisciplinary research project investigating the value of personal effects in the migration context)
Harry holds a BA in English Literature from King’s College London and a MA in Ethnographic Documentary Film from UCL.
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Our Awards programme is central to the Festival and represents some of the most exciting and ambitious contemporary filmmakers working today.
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Seamus Harahan presents Fucking Finland, an anthology of film freshly completed for his Festival commission.
With a hand-held video camera and armed with a painter’s eye and a musician’s ear, Harahan’s journey begins in Suomenlinna, an inhabited Finnish sea fortress with obvious parallels to Berwick, and traces a line across to Tallinn, Estonia and then on to Rostock, Germany.
With a hand-held video camera and armed with a painter’s eye and a musician’s ear, Harahan’s journey begins in Suomenlinna, an inhabited Finnish sea fortress with obvious parallels to Berwick, and traces a line across to Tallinn, Estonia and then on to Rostock, Germany.
The ferry connecting Hanko and Rostock becomes a melancholic pop metaphor for the old Iron Curtain era, creating audacious – maybe even insolent – links between places that were enveloped in two different and opposing ideological blocks not that long ago.
The Fucking Finland Series is supported by the Elephant Trust.
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Once in the XX Century is a gallery-based exploration of the oeuvre of Lithuanian filmmaker Deimantas Narkevičius. The works included in the exhibition are:
Celebrating our region’s young filmmakers, BFMAF presents shorts in competition for a cash prize and two prestigious awards: The Young Filmmakers Award and The Chris Anderson Award.
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Berwick New Cinema presents innovative and internationally acclaimed films that push their
genre to the very limits – the point where boundaries between art and cinema remain fluid. The programme includes feature length, midlength and short films. Many of these are premieres, but retrospective and archival titles have also been carefully selected to provide invigorating historical precedents to the programme.
Exploring our theme of Fact or Fiction through discussion, reflection and contextualisation of the featured
films, Ed Webb-Ingall will lead the Berwick New Cinema Seminar programme featuring directors present at the Festival, including presentations from Salomé Lamas, Tim Leyendekker and Festival Artist in Focus Deimantas Narkevičius.
Co-hosted with Berwick Visual Arts, accompanying Artist One- to-One Sessions with Paul Rooney and Rehana Zaman will also be available to seminar participants. A number of these will be offered via Northumberland Arts Development bursaries to allow Northumberland- based moving image artists to attend the Festival.
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On the same day as the Scottish independence referendum, Short Stories from the Border features tales drawing on the divide between England and Scotland and on crossing borders all over the world.
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From hundreds of entries responding to our Border Crossing theme, we bring you some of the best short films and artists’ videos from across the world as part of the 2nd Inntravel Short Film Award.
