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

 

 

 

Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies

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.

Available now. Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies: an artists publication, with 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 is reviewed in Frieze online
by Erik Morse. Listed in Frieze Magazine (March 2011) as a top-ten online article.
Frieze

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

One MInute Cinema Volume 5, 2011
Screening Phillip Warnell's 'Wavelength'.
FACT Artists Cine Club, 25th Jan 2012.

Phillip Warnell is currently working on a project with the archive at The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel.

The Girl with X-ray Eyes

Watch The Girl with X-ray Eyes online
IDFA TV

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

 

Ming of Harlem

Image links to FID Marseille Lab, 2011

Ming of Harlem is a new film work, a co-production with Michigan Films, Brussels; with financial support from The Belgian Experimental Film Fund, The Wellcome Trust and Kingston University.

 

Other Articles

Meet Your Inside: Endoscopic visualisations. Jan-Eric Olsen
PDF

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

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

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

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

 

 

The Meaning of the world Outside the World - A feature on Phillip Warnell's films, 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

The world of the shadowless person - Article in Semaine Contemporary Art. No.9 Jan 2008
"The power of science produces a sort of reaction of subjects, an almost vital
refusal to let ourselves be reduced to its algorithms. Phillip Warnell's film about
Natasha Demkina states that subjects cannot becomprehensively calculated."
Gérard Wajcman

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

 

 

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