Morgan Quaintance Trailers
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Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer.
His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely with presentations in 2020 including: Curtas Vila Do Conje, Portugal at which he received the Best Experimental Film award, and CPH:DOX at which he received the New Vision Award, both for the film South (2020); Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany; European Media Art Festival, Germany; Alchemy Film and Arts Festival, Scotland; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Punto de Vista Festival in Pamplona, Spain; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami. Over the past ten years, his critically incisive writings on contemporary art, aesthetics and their socio-political contexts, have featured in publications including Art Monthly, the Wire, and the Guardian, and helped shape the landscape of discourse and debate in the UK.
Quaintance’s films are distributed by LUX, London.
Most Popular Morgan Quaintance Trailers
Total trailers found: 25
01 January 2023
A solarised drift across country and the unconscious.
27 February 2023
RIP, Rollostraat 18 and Sixth Form Acid are all part of a series of ‘miniature’ films that Quaintance is continually producing.
17 February 2020
What kind of power is accessible through the discovery of a voice? Morgan Quaintance interlinks two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side with his own biography to explore what happens when speech is ignored, and the voice fades.
01 January 2018
Pitched between documentary and abstraction ‘Anne, Richard and Paul’ is a portrait of the experimental music and performance trio Bow Gamelan Ensemble, comprising archival footage, 16mm film and SD video.
19 September 2019
Bataaxalu Ndakaaru (Letter from Dakar) surveys aspects of the vibrant grass roots arts and culture scene in the Senegalese capital of Dakar.
01 January 2022
An exercise in observing repetition, following patterns and deciphering loops. Drawing focus through the lull of recurring images and repeating sounds, a clearer image emerges of industrialised labour and the vulnerable bodies of those performing it.
06 October 2019
A portrait of Jamaican-born artistic polymath Barbara Samuels. Featuring an account of her first generation, diasporic experience in Southend and London, and her discovery of hippiedom and the personal freedoms offered by entry into creative life.
29 May 2021
Voices from the past haunt A Human Certainty, whose entangled threads link its multifarious narratives of suffering: a recent break-up; the romantic sweep of mid-century pop music; Weegee’s crime-scene photography; and images taken by the artist’s grandmother, a spirit medium, on her travels in Asia and Africa.
27 February 2023
Numerology. 2023. Great Britain. Directed by Morgan Quaintance. 3 min.
12 April 2019
An installation echoing post-election billboard vandalism in Dakar, Senegal.
01 January 2022
Strawberries is part of a series of ‘miniature’ films that Quaintance is continually producing. These short films are all under three minutes long and allow the filmmaker to explore a single formal or conceptual idea.
25 September 2018
Letter from Tokyo is a documentary film that looks at art, culture and politics in Tokyo, Japan. Shot over three months during the summer of 2018, and with a particular focus on grass roots arts initiatives, the use of public space, and queer politics, the film provides a snapshot of Japan’s capital in the run up to the 2020 olympics.
27 February 2023
Palace. 2022. Great Britain. Directed by Morgan Quaintance. 3 min.
17 June 2019
What effect does a lapse in memory have on a person? Or on an entire nation? Missing Time investigates the theme of amnesia as experienced by an individual or an entire country.
20 October 2022
RIP, Rollostraat 18 and Sixth Form Acid are all part of a series of ‘miniature’ films that Quaintance is continually producing.
20 October 2018
A montage of 1990s-era archival video and recent footage, exhuming cultural debates from history’s grave to re-animate a once-promised future, still to arrive.
04 February 2021
The proposed metaphysical highs of psychedelic drugs versus the harsh actualities of concrete metropolitan life.
27 February 2023
A Better World. 2022. Great Britain. Directed by Morgan Quaintance. 3 min.
09 June 2022
An ongoing series of short shorts that are all under four minutes long. Each explore a single formal, conceptual or structural idea.
02 February 2022
The Miniatures are an ongoing series of compact films Morgan Quaintance is continually producing. These short shorts are all under four minutes long and allow Quaintance to explore a single formal or conceptual idea.
29 March 2025
Walking Distance uses footage of Mount Fuji from Quaintance’s personal archive. It combines this material with an exploration of the distances covered and locations visited during a period of research and production in Tokyo during April 2024.
13 March 2024
Combining low resolution footage, 16mm film and satellite imagery, Efforts of Nature considers the passage of time, processes of change and dissolution from two distant perspectives: the existential level of the body and the planetary level of shifting geological conditions.
11 February 2021
Commissioned for S-AIR’s 2020 residency programme, Letter from Sapporo (2021) is a collage film offering a glimpse of daily life in the Japanese city of Sapporo.
13 March 2025
The film explores notions of home and belonging in contemporary society. Comprising interviews with workers at the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architecture Museum in Tokyo, and fragments of conversations with renters in that city and London, a productive dialectic opens between the museum’s preserved historical ideal of the domestic and the often unsettling realities of temporary accommodation in modern cities.
29 March 2025
Seeikokan III is a direct animation work using ephemera and excess 16mm footage from the production of Available Light.
