a.samms@live.co.uk
Anouska Samms is from London, where she still currently lives and works.
EDUCATION
MA, Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths University of London (First Class Honours)
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) 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