Phillip Warnell

info@phillipwarnell.com


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

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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

 

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 be comprehensively calculated."
Gérard Wajcman


The Girl with X-ray Eyes,
Artists publication, 2008

To obtain a copy, write to info@phillipwarnell.com

To see Phillip Warnell's film with Natasha Demkina ONLINE, go here
IDFA TV


Containing film stills, images of Natasha Demkina and an interview with her.
production stills, exhibition images. With essays by Gérard Wajcman
and Steven Connor. 96 pages. £10 + p&p
Translucent dust jacket. ISBN: 978-0-902683-87-7



Placebo (animal magnetism)
Solo exhibition at 300m3 gallery, Gothenburg, 2008. Photograph, Hendrik Rylander.

 

 

Unseen Footage
Performance
(with reproduction posing stand and modified 16mm projector) of archival,
miniaturised and projected footage on the artists eye, 2006/7. Photograph, Stéphanie Nava

 


Sensors on the abdominal wall
In exhibition at Arlington Arts Centre, Washington DC, 2010
Video object/Installation. Photograph by Lisa McCarty