Huw Wahl
Huw Wahl is an artist and filmmaker born in London in 1985 who has gained international recognition for his work. Using analogue film, he explores the transformative potential of creative action, guided by his belief in cinema’s ability to reveal experiences and ideas that foster collective change. His film The Republics (2020), a collaboration with poet Stephen Watts, premiered at CPH:DOX and subsequently screened internationally. Introduced to sailing by his sister, Wahl was captivated by the poetic and cinematic possibilities of motorless navigation. This experience inspired the initial footage for Wind, Tide & Oar (2024), which evolved into a richly layered, sibling-led collaboration. Wahl's work has been featured in magazines like Sight and Sound and The Wire, and his writing has appeared in various magazines, academic journals, and books. In addition to curating film programs and serving on international festival juries, he has taught film and photography courses in university and community settings in the UK and abroad.
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Everything Lives
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Part observation, part performance, and a collaboration between father and son, _Everything Lives_ looks at how Ken experiences time in the barns where he works; the time he spends playing, the time unique to painting or the time it takes to build a whole life. This short 16mm film is an intimate series of surfaces, sounds and events that together form their subject: the artist as father.
I AM A FILM
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Shot on location at the Low Four studio in Manchester, this film features poet Stephen Watts reciting his poem _I AM A FILM_, a coda to _The Liberated Film Club_ by Stanley Schtinter. Accompanied by the filmmaker who films him in a way that merges his presence with the recitation, the process unfolds through the use of analog material, close-ups of his face and expressions, and the grain of hi...
To Hell With Culture
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Co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Herbert Read (1893-1968) was an influential art critic, poet and committed anarchist. In his 1943 essay, _To Hell with Culture_, Read laid out his ideas for a civilisation based on cooperation in which culture would no longer be a commodity, separated from society, but an integral part of everyday life. In this film, director Huw Wahl engages in...
Everything Lives
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Part observation, part performance, and a collaboration between father and son, _Everything Lives_ looks at how Ken experiences time in the barns where he works; the time he spends playing, the time unique to painting or the time it takes to build a whole life. This short 16mm film is an intimate series of surfaces, sounds and events that together form their subject: the artist as father.
I AM A FILM
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Shot on location at the Low Four studio in Manchester, this film features poet Stephen Watts reciting his poem _I AM A FILM_, a coda to _The Liberated Film Club_ by Stanley Schtinter. Accompanied by the filmmaker who films him in a way that merges his presence with the recitation, the process unfolds through the use of analog material, close-ups of his face and expressions, and the grain of hi...
To Hell With Culture
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Co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Herbert Read (1893-1968) was an influential art critic, poet and committed anarchist. In his 1943 essay, _To Hell with Culture_, Read laid out his ideas for a civilisation based on cooperation in which culture would no longer be a commodity, separated from society, but an integral part of everyday life. In this film, director Huw Wahl engages in...
