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

Now available on this website:
see The Girl with X-ray Eyes and Outlandish: étranges corps étrangers online.

 

 

Ming of Harlem

Image links to FID Marseille Film Lab, 2011

Ming of Harlem is a new film work in progress, a co-production with Michigan Films, Brussels. Contributions by, amongst others, Dr Sarah Knight, Akira Lippit and Jean-Luc Nancy.

with production support from The Belgian Experimental Film Fund (Belgium), The Wellcome Trust (UK), VAF (Flanders) and Kingston University (UK). Partner links below:

VAF, Flanders
Wellcome Trust

 

I first saw the light

16mm film loop work. A project with the archive at The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. ...image links to work in progress page.

 

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.

Image links to project page:

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

Coming up

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

Participating in Powers of the False cinema symposium. Cine Lumiere, London. May 18/19, 2012.
Powers of the False

Screening Outlandish: étranges corps étrangers at Nuit de la Philosophie.
The French Institute, London on June 8, 2012
Institut Francais

Phillip Warnell will be screening work at the Sensualising Deformity conference, Edinburgh University. June 15, 2012.
Sensualising Deformity

Phillip Warnell will have a short exhibition of a new film work, I first saw the light, at the South London Gallery, London, in autumn 2012. Details to follow.
SLG

One Minute Volume 5 will be exhibited at Peloton Gallery, NSW Australia 4-25 April, 2012
One Minute

 

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

Recent articles online

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

 

 

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 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

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