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ABOUT

Wormell makes a good case that, on a subliminal level, there is a seething, drunken joy underneath ordinary consciousness
- David Finkelstein, Film International

My films often (but not always) focus on first-person encounters with everyday, outdoor places and objects, with filming and editing providing a way of tapping into the revelatory potential of these often ignored environments. I refract this focus across my work through a variety of styles, formats and genres, in a celebration of divergence, dissonance and filmmaking.

These (mostly) short films, which are drawn from my personal archive of self-shot footage, are (mostly) born in the editing process. They can be lyrical, humorous, diaristic, earnest, informational and ambiguous (or a combination of these things). Subjects include (but are not limited to) piles of rubble, trees, fly-tipping, moorland, underpasses, food compost, motorways, road signage, and the experience of travel.

This blurb might change in a couple of years when I change my mind about it (or it might not).


CV
Screenings:
2024 | Bulbous Tree | London Experimental, London
2023 | Springtime | Analogue Ensemble, Ramsgate
2022 | Good Bad Rubbish | Exploding Cinema, London
2022 | Holy Waste | Exploding Cinema, London
2022 | Signage Fantasy | Film and Beyond, London
2021 | Area by Road | Exploding Cinema, online screening
2021 | That Little Sphere #2 | Two Queens Gallery, Leicester
2021 | Holy Waste | Citric Signals Video Network ‘Colours’ programme
2021 | Barn Dance | The One Minutes ‘Comfort and Vision’ curated by Salim Bayri
2021 | Area by Road Water Peices, International Video and Contemporary Art Festival, Riga
2021 | Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | Hungry Eyes ‘Trash Night’, Geissen
2021 | Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | ‘Lo-Budget Mayhem’, London Short Film Festival, London
2020 | Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | Harkat 16mm Film Festival, Mumbai
2020 | Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | ‘Thingamijigs, Punks & Subversives’, Kinoskop, Belgrade
2020 | Area by Road | Split Videoart Festival, Split
2020 | Leg & Pavement Improvisation (Revisited) | ‘Journeys’ online programme, xviix.com
2020 | Barn Dance | ‘Isolation, Diversity, Climate’ online programme, Strangelove Festival
2020 | The Barbican Mixtape | Barbican YouTube channel
2020 | Landscape Video | ‘Grounded’ online programme, xviix.com
2020 | Grubs Up!! | ‘Lo-Budget Mayhem’ London Short Film Festival
2019 | The Barbican Mixtape | The Barbican Archive Residency, Barbican Centre, London
2019 | The Barbican Mixtape | Barbican Cinema, London
2019 | Jumping Video | Exploding Cinema, London
2019 | city | It Got Brighter, Then Dimmer, Close To The Wound, Enclave, London
2018 | Jumping Video | Transient Visions, Johnson City
2018 | Jumping Video | Honourable Mention, Experimental Forum, Los Angeles
2018 | Jumping Video | Horn Festival, Jerusalem
2017 | Leg & Pavement Improvisation | Video @ Varosi, Brand New Blinkers, London
2017 | Know Nothing Please | EAFA Mash-Up screening, Norwich
2017 | Holiday Video | Flatpack Festival, Birmingham
2017 | Mr. Isseifoas | Leftfield & Luscious, London Short Film Festival
2016 | Movie Reviews | Cinephilia & Collecting Screening Day, Birkbeck Cinema, London
2016 | A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Usurp Zone 5 India, New Delhi
2016 | Grassland & Rubble @ 187.5 BPM | London Experimental Film Festival, London
2016 | Mr. Isseifoas | Croydon International Film Festival, London
2016 | Mr. Isseifoas | Exploding Cinema, London
2016 | Mr Isseifoas | Shorts in the South, Stanley’s Film Club, London
2016 | A Roost for Every Bird | Wendleswurth 2, Turf Projects, London
2016 | Grassland & Rubble @ 187.5 BPM | Open Screenings, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2016 | A Roost for Every Bird | Short Circuit Shorts, Brighton
2015 | city | Xmas Short Film Madness, Porto
2015 | A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Usurp Zone 5 Film Festival, London
2015 | A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Films About Walking, London
2015 | A Roost for Every Bird | Langsett Independent Film Festival, Peak District
2015 | A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Video Strolls, Birmingham
2015 | Criminal Man | Greenhorn Short Film Festival, London
2015 | A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Flatpack Festival, Birmingham
2015 | Flat Projection | Turtle Filmfest, Holmavik
2015 | A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | London Shorts, londonist.com
2015 | A Comprehensive of Survey Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | London Short Film Festival
2014 | Scree Fucking Junk | Xmas Short Film Madness, Porto
2014 | Criminal Man | Croydon International Film Festival, London
2014 | Flat Projection | Bornshorts, Bornholm
2014 | Flat Projection | Under the Underground, New York
2014 | A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Short Sighted Cinema, London
2014 | A Roost for Every Bird | Southwark Arts Forum Shorts, London
2014 | A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch East London | Greenhorn Short Film Festival, London
2013 | Flat Projection | After Xmas Short Film Madness, Porto
2013 | A Roost for Every Bird | Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York
2013 | A Roost for Every Bird | 5th Base Gallery, London
2013 | A Roost for Every Bird | Kino London, London

Artist Development:
2019 - 2020 | London Creative Network at SPACE

Commissions:
2019 | The Barbican Mixtape

Curatorial:
2017 | Prismatic Music: The Films of Joseph Bernard, Close-Up Cinema
2016 - 2017 | Brand New Blinkers short film night, DIY Space for London
2016 | Cinephilia & Collecting Screening Day, Birkbeck Cinema
2016 - 2017 | A Museum of the Everyday exhibition, Peltz Gallery

Awards:
2013 | A Roost for Every Bird, Best Film, Croydon International Film Festival

Publications:
2021 | Food for thought: on attraction and repulsion in Jack Wormell’s Holy Waste
The Room Projects
Link: https://theroomprojects.com/F5-Food-for-thought

2018 | Euphoria Unmasked: Careless Camerawork on Clapham Common
Film Scratches International
Link:  http://filmint.nu/?p=24925

2016 | Cinephilia down the ages: a Museum of the Everyday
Sight & Sound
Link:  https://bit.ly/2LbEKY4

2015 | Stigmart Videofocus Special Edition
Link:  https://bit.ly/2NJjET7