ONLINE: Artists' Film International 2021

Artists’ Film International is a collaborative project featuring film, video, and animation from around the world. Established by the Whitechapel Gallery in 2008, AFI includes 21 global partner organizations. Each organization selects an exciting recent work by an artist from their region which is shared amongst the network. The program is adapted to every venue and is shown over the course of a year. Each year, Artists' Film International’s program responds to a theme; this year’s theme is care.

Projects can be viewed online during September 2021. Click on an artist's name below to watch their film.

The Artists

Close up photograph of a person's head in 3/4 view, looking to the viewer's right. The person has light skin, blue eyesand closely shorn hair on the sides, and waers two small silver hoop earrings in the one ear visible.

Agnė Jokšė

Black and white image with a black background. Two figures emerge from the dark, as if lying backwards, with heads hanging upside down. The figures have light skin and dark hair and have their eyes closed and arms outstretched.

Clare Langan

IMage of a woman standing in a meeting room with rows of wooden rows of large chairs.

Giulio Squillacciotti

A stretched-out, naked figure appears to dive from the upper right corner into the center of a round pink textile.

Julia Sbriller and Joaquin Wall

Three light-skinned people with short brown hair are seen from chest up, wearing t-shirts. The person on the right is seen in side view and places a hand on the shoulder of the person in the middle, who faces the camera, wears glasses and looks downward with a slight smile. The person on the left is visible from the side, has a dark beard, and looks across to the person on the right.

Kenneth Tam

A light-skinned person with short dark hair, sits on a modern chair, wearing a tuxedo inside a wearhouse with large stone scultuptural objects on pallettes.

Kerstin Honeit

Black and white image of a person seen from the shoulders up and facing the camera, but eyes turned down. The background is a blurred image of a landscape with diagobal lines from left to right.

Kiri Dalena

IMage of a person wearing black shorts and sturt and a baseball cap, running on a treadmill in a room with other treadmills and large windows in the dar wall.

Mihály Stefanovicz

A person in a blue shirt with lng hair in a braid leans a cheek against a transparent surface. Another person wearing a white turban and a white shirt is on the other side of hte surface, leaning a cheek against the surface.

Neda Kovinić

Photo of a worn, whiite boat sitting atop brown earth with a blue sky and cloudsin the background.

Patty Chang

Bare hands grab the stem of a large plant.

Polina Kanis

Close up of medium-dark skinned hands - two hands on the ledt are painting the nails on the hand on the right.

Rehana Zaman

Image of dark hair with a small yellow toy among the hairs, and a hand laid on top ot the toy.

Sena Başöz

Image of a dark bedroom with two single beds that have messy white sheets. A large window in the background with sheet whitr curtains provides the only light.

Victoria Verseau

Image of two people wearing hoods over their heads that depict a bear and another animal.

Wojciech Dada, Katarzyna Górna, Rafał Jakubowicz

Image at top of page: Kenneth Tam, still from Breakfast in Bed, 2016. Single-channel video. 32 min. Courtesy of the artist and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchased through the Board of Advisors Acquisition Fund.