Anouska Samms is from London, where she currently lives and works.


EDUCATION


BA, Film Production, The University of Westminster (First Class Honours)

Art Foundation Diploma: Filmmaking, LCC, University of the Arts London


RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS

2022 - 2023
Sarabande Foundation, established by Lee Alexander McQueen

2017 - 2021
Research Fellow in the Design, Architecture and Digital department at the V&A, London


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS


2024
(group) Lewisham Illuminations, SET Lewisham, London

(group) The Seven Lamps, Cornerstone Studios/Hypha Studios, London

(group) Will You Forget?, The Burrow, London

(group) Hair.wav, Listen Gallery, Glasgow 

(group) Beyond Clay, Batsford Gallery, London


2023
(group) Sum, Sarabande Foundation, London

(group) Tangle Teaser, Sarabande Foundation, London

(group) Warped, Sarabande Foundation, London

(group) UK Competition Screening for The London Short Film Festival, BFI, London 

(group) The Artist Forum - Festival of the Moving Image, New York
WINNER - BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT 


2022
(group) Unfamiliar Forms, London Design Festival, London

(solo) This Myth We Make - curated by Natalie Kane, SET Lewisham, London


2020 - MOVING IMAGE WORK
Anthologies of Care, Gentle/Radical, Cardiff, Wales


2017 - MOVING IMAGE WORK  
New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, USA

2nd Iteration of the Mana Contemporary Chicago’s Body + Camera Festival, 3 month installation, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, USA

Body + Camera Festival, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, USA

Escales Documentaries, La Rochelle, France

Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK

Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival, Harstad, Norway

The Artist Forum - Festival of the Moving Image, New York
WINNER - BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT 

The World Transformed, Brighton, UK

ANTI Contemporary Arts Festival, Kuopio, Finland

Summer Salon, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London


2016 - MOVING IMAGE WORK 
PMMC Lab - Kino, Halle, Germany

FAT RELIC, The Baths, London


SELECTED RESEARCH, GUEST LECTURES & TALKS

2019
Museums and The Web,  presented paper: The Materiality of the Immaterial: Collecting Digital Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Boston, USA

LUX + London Community Video Archive, panel with speakers from London Renters Union’s Participatory Action Research Project


Study Day organised by the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts and Media (CREAM) in collaboration with Homelands, Media, Arts and Hybrid Spaces: Experience and Meaning in the Contact Zone, The University of Westminster, London

The University of Westminster, Film and Television: Theory, Culture and Industry MA, Guest Lecture, London

©AnouskaSamms2024