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, landscape 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 (or it might not).
These images are part of a tension that Wormell’s work often situates between the planned designation and utility of spaces, and the aleatory disorganisation and disruption of these spaces, which sprout joy in an encounter with their forms and arrangements.
- Gareth Evans, The Room Projects
- Gareth Evans, The Room Projects
CV
Screenings:
2024
Rapture | Exploding Cinema, London
Bulbous Tree, really wonderful exceptional trees, Rapture | The Art Station, Saxmundham
Small & Big Pictures of a Building (work-in-progress) | Analogue Ensemble, Ramsgate
2022
Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | Harkat 16mm Film Festival, Mumbai
Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | ‘Thingamijigs, Punks & Subversives’, Kinoskop, Belgrade
Area by Road | Split Videoart Festival, Split
Barn Dance | ‘Isolation, Diversity, Climate’ online programme, Strangelove Festival
The Barbican Mixtape | Barbican YouTube channel
Landscape Video | ‘Grounded’ online programme, xviix.com
Grubs Up!! | ‘Lo-Budget Mayhem’ London Short Film Festival
2019
The Barbican Mixtape | The Barbican Archive Residency, Barbican Centre, London
The Barbican Mixtape | Barbican Cinema, London
Jumping Video | Exploding Cinema, London
city | It Got Brighter, Then Dimmer, Close To The Wound, Enclave, London
2018
Jumping Video | Transient Visions, Johnson City
Jumping Video | Honourable Mention, Experimental Forum, Los Angeles
Jumping Video | Horn Festival, Jerusalem
2017
Holiday Video | Flatpack Festival, Birmingham
Mr. Isseifoas | Leftfield & Luscious, London Short Film Festival
2016
Movie Reviews | Cinephilia & Collecting Screening Day, Birkbeck Cinema, London
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Usurp Zone 5 India, New Delhi
Grassland & Rubble @ 187.5 BPM | London Experimental Film Festival, London
Mr. Isseifoas | Croydon International Film Festival, London
Mr. Isseifoas | Exploding Cinema, London
Mr Isseifoas | Shorts in the South, Stanley’s Film Club, London
A Roost for Every Bird | Wendleswurth 2, Turf Projects, London
Grassland & Rubble @ 187.5 BPM | Open Screenings, Whitechapel Gallery, London
A Roost for Every Bird | Short Circuit Shorts, Brighton
2015
city | Xmas Short Film Madness, Porto
A Comprehensive of Survey Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | London Short Film Festival
2014
Scree Fucking Junk | Xmas Short Film Madness, Porto
Criminal Man | Croydon International Film Festival, London
Flat Projection | Bornshorts, Bornholm
Flat Projection | Under the Underground, New York
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Short Sighted Cinema, London
A Roost for Every Bird | Southwark Arts Forum Shorts, London
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch East London | Greenhorn Short Film Festival, London
2013
Flat Projection | After Xmas Short Film Madness, Porto
A Roost for Every Bird | Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York
A Roost for Every Bird | 5th Base Gallery, London
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 - 2017 | A Museum of the Everyday exhibition, Peltz Gallery
Awards:
2013 | A Roost for Every Bird, Best Film, Croydon International Film Festival
Publications:
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
2024
Rapture | Exploding Cinema, London
Bulbous Tree, really wonderful exceptional trees, Rapture | The Art Station, Saxmundham
Small & Big Pictures of a Building (work-in-progress) | Analogue Ensemble, Ramsgate
Bulbous Tree | London Experimental, London
2023
Springtime | Analogue Ensemble, Ramsgate2023
2022
Good Bad Rubbish | Exploding Cinema, London
Holy Waste | Exploding Cinema, London
Signage Fantasy | Film and Beyond, London
2021
Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | We Makes Movies International Film Festival, online programme
Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | Diametrale Film Festival, Innsbruck
Area by Road | Exploding Cinema, online screening
Area by Road | That Little Sphere #2, Two Queens Gallery, Leicester
Signage Fantasy | Film and Beyond, London
2021
Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | We Makes Movies International Film Festival, online programme
Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | Diametrale Film Festival, Innsbruck
Area by Road | Exploding Cinema, online screening
Area by Road | That Little Sphere #2, Two Queens Gallery, Leicester
Holy Waste | Citric Signals Video Network ‘Colours’ programme
Barn Dance | The One Minutes ‘Comfort and Vision’ curated by Salim BayriArea by Road | Water Peices, International Video and Contemporary Art Festival, Riga
Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | Hungry Eyes ‘Trash Night’, Geissen
Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | ‘Lo-Budget Mayhem’, London Short Film Festival, London
2020
2020
Crumbs #3 (Cinema Trailer) | ‘Thingamijigs, Punks & Subversives’, Kinoskop, Belgrade
Area by Road | Split Videoart Festival, Split
Leg & Pavement Improvisation (Revisited) | ‘Journeys’ online programme, xviix.com
The Barbican Mixtape | Barbican YouTube channel
Landscape Video | ‘Grounded’ online programme, xviix.com
Grubs Up!! | ‘Lo-Budget Mayhem’ London Short Film Festival
2019
The Barbican Mixtape | The Barbican Archive Residency, Barbican Centre, London
The Barbican Mixtape | Barbican Cinema, London
Jumping Video | Exploding Cinema, London
city | It Got Brighter, Then Dimmer, Close To The Wound, Enclave, London
2018
Jumping Video | Transient Visions, Johnson City
Jumping Video | Honourable Mention, Experimental Forum, Los Angeles
Jumping Video | Horn Festival, Jerusalem
2017
Leg & Pavement Improvisation | Video @ Varosi, Brand New Blinkers, London
Know Nothing Please | EAFA Mash-Up screening, Norwich
Know Nothing Please | EAFA Mash-Up screening, Norwich
Mr. Isseifoas | Leftfield & Luscious, London Short Film Festival
2016
Movie Reviews | Cinephilia & Collecting Screening Day, Birkbeck Cinema, London
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Usurp Zone 5 India, New Delhi
Grassland & Rubble @ 187.5 BPM | London Experimental Film Festival, London
Mr. Isseifoas | Croydon International Film Festival, London
Mr. Isseifoas | Exploding Cinema, London
Mr Isseifoas | Shorts in the South, Stanley’s Film Club, London
A Roost for Every Bird | Wendleswurth 2, Turf Projects, London
Grassland & Rubble @ 187.5 BPM | Open Screenings, Whitechapel Gallery, London
A Roost for Every Bird | Short Circuit Shorts, Brighton
2015
city | Xmas Short Film Madness, Porto
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Usurp Zone 5 Film Festival, London
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Flatpack Festival, Birmingham
Flat Projection | Turtle Filmfest, Holmavik
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | London Shorts, londonist.com
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Films About Walking, London
A Roost for Every Bird | Langsett Independent Film Festival, Peak District
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Video Strolls, Birmingham
Criminal Man | Greenhorn Short Film Festival, London
A Roost for Every Bird | Langsett Independent Film Festival, Peak District
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Video Strolls, Birmingham
Criminal Man | Greenhorn Short Film Festival, London
Flat Projection | Turtle Filmfest, Holmavik
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | London Shorts, londonist.com
2014
Scree Fucking Junk | Xmas Short Film Madness, Porto
Criminal Man | Croydon International Film Festival, London
Flat Projection | Bornshorts, Bornholm
Flat Projection | Under the Underground, New York
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch, East London | Short Sighted Cinema, London
A Roost for Every Bird | Southwark Arts Forum Shorts, London
A Comprehensive Survey of Historical Plaques in Shoreditch East London | Greenhorn Short Film Festival, London
2013
Flat Projection | After Xmas Short Film Madness, Porto
A Roost for Every Bird | Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York
A Roost for Every Bird | 5th Base Gallery, London
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
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
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