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Phillip Warnell is an artist, filmmaker
and academic based in London producing film, text and art work.

 

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X-ray Eyes in Sharjah Biennial and at CCA Tel Aviv in April 2013...

The Girl with X-ray Eyes has been curated as part of the Sharjah Biennale outdoor cinema screening programme, Mar-May 2013. The film will be screened on 35mm in a courtyard cinema, curated by Jean-Pierre Rehm and filmmaker Apichatpong Weeasethakul.
film programme

X-ray Eyes is screening at the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv on Monday 8th April, 2013, curated by Jean-Pierre Rehm:
CCA

Co-presenting a paper, 'taking the zoo to the ghetto' with Filipa Ramos at the film-philosophy conference, July 10-12, Amsterdam
Film-Philosophy

Phillip Warnell is talking/screening films at Crassh, Centre for research in the arts, social sciences and humanitites at Cambridge University, April 30th 2013
Cambridge University

Participating in a Documentary Now panel, UCL, 19-20 June, 2013
Documentary Now

Ming of Harlem: twenty one storeys in the air

Phillip Warnell is currently working on a new film project with the financial support of The Wellcome Trust & CCA, Belgium, in association with Picture Palace Pictures, NYC.

Undertaking a Random Acts artists film commission for Channel Four Television a trailer-like precursor to the film, 'The Scales and Stripes', 2013.
Random Acts
FACT

Kino der Kunst screening of The Scales and Stripes, 28/04/13
Kinoderkunst

I first saw the light, 2012

16mm film loop work. A project with the archive at The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. A footnote to David Lynch...

Next showing at Rencontres Internationale, Berlin, Haus der Culturen der Welt, Thursday June 27th at 7pm
Rencontres

Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies, 2009

Philosopher and heart transplant recipient Jean-Luc Nancy meditates on the history and integrity of bodies: their secrets, their touching, their annihilation and strangeness, in Phillip Warnell’s short film, Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies (20mins, 35mm).

The film presents a number of visual and literary passages, each exploring the correlate between a textual narrative by Jean-Luc Nancy, his on screen presence, a surgical organ in search of a body and an unaccounted for, displaced invertebrate at sea.

Image links to project page where you can see Outlandish online:

Available now. Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies: an artists publication, with original texts by Jean-Luc Nancy, Andrea Lissoni and Phillip Warnell, along with production stills from the film (Nov 2010). Available now from The South London Gallery, London, or by writing directly to info@phillipwarnell.com

Outlandish was reviewed in Frieze online
by Erik Morse. Listed in Frieze Magazine (March 2011) as a top-ten online article.
Frieze

The Girl with X-ray Eyes, 2008

The Girl with X-ray Eyes is screening at the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Monday 8th April, 2013. Curated by Jean-Pierre Rehm as 'The Eyes, The Ears, The Lips: What Community?'
CCA

The Girl with X-ray Eyes has been curated for inclusion at the Sharjah Biennale, 2013. In an outdoor courtyard cinema the film will be screened five times on 35mm between Mar-May. Curated by Jean-Pierre Rehm and Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The Girl with X-ray Eyes book is available for purchase online from The Live Art Development Agency, London
Unbound

Other

Phillip Warnell is a co-curator of Essential Experiments, a twice monthly screening of experimental film at BFI Southbank
BFI

Mentor for the BFI Doc-Next film commission scheme
BFI

Hear Phillip Warnell's recent paper on 'Projections of Animality' at the Natural History Museum, London, June 2011
NHM

Leonardo article from 2009, Intimate Distances. Available as a free PDF download here:
Leonardo

Life-Like: an organ in search of a body. Phillip Warnell's article on bodily migration.
Life-like

Meet Your Inside: Endoscopic visualisations. Jan-Eric Olsen. n.b. there are date inaccuracies in this article.
PDF

Body voyage as visual representation and performance, featuring Phillip Warnell's work.
Jan-Eric Olsen
Nuncius, Vol 26, No. 1, 2011
Nuncius

Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies: A 20 minute film made in collaboration with Jean-Luc Nancy

Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies - 35mm film, 20mins. with Jean-Luc Nancy
'A body embodies: it isn’t a tautology. It is a subject predicating its own essence. If the soul is the body’s form,
then the body is also the soul’s impenetrability. It is the soul’s hardness, substance, entrenchment. A soul without
entrenchment, without rampart, vanishes soulless'. Strange Foreign Bodies
Jean-Luc Nancy

The Meaning of the world Outside the World - A feature on Phillip Warnell's film work, Mousse No. 22 2010,
"Phillip Warnell explores a shifting world whose different planes intersect, collide, and sometimes collapse.
A world that is full of surprises, and to those who enter it, fascinating, and infused with hidden poetry. A world that -
though focused on phenomena that are ancient of contemporary, extra-sensory or scientific, invisible or shrouded in darkness
as they may be - above all generates figures who require no footnotes."
Andrea Lissoni

Lydia Kavina plays The Girl with X-ray Eyes
Performing a live Theremin film accompaniment composed for the film by Vladimir Nikolaev,
June 2008. Photograph, Hana Vojackova