Casual Encounters

Denna Cartamkhoob is a British-Iranian film maker and independent producer living in London. She spent 10 years working in soho and makes films about outsider communities inspired by this time. Her work as a producer is predominantly with artist film makers. 

Amy Gwatkin is a British filmmaker and photographer whose work explores the relationship and power dynamics between subject, audience and image maker. Often shifting roles and building multi-layered stories with movement and performance integral components to the artist’s discovery and key to her visual language. Front of mind for Gwatkin is the essence and importance of agency. Working collaboratively with her subjects brings a sense of freedom to the work which results in tangible, raw and visible synergy. Gwatkin’s interests dive into tensions between fantasy and reality, and blur the lines of perceptual beauty, using a direct visual approach derived from the artist’s experience with fine art and documentary.

Therese Henningsen is a filmmaker and programmer based in London. Her films Slow Delay and Maintenancer (with Sidsel Meineche Hansen) have been shown at Chisenhale Gallery, Venice Biennale, Whitstable Biennale, Whitechapel Gallery, Close-Up Cinema, SMK Statens Museum for Kunst, Cryptofiction, Liberated Film Club, among others. In collaboration with Juliette Joffé, she has co-edited the recently launched interdisciplinary anthology Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, published by Prototype, and is working on a practice-led PhD in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, closely linked to the ideas addressed in the anthology.

Alice Hawkins is a British artist-photographer and filmmaker whose work examines the societal definitions of femininity and gender. Since graduating from Camberwell College of Art in 2001, she has contributed to Pop, i-D, LOVE to Vogue. Hawkins has exhibited internationally with group and solo shows at Somerset House, London to UCCA, Beijing, China. Hawkins’s first book, entitled ‘Alice’s Adventures’ was published in 2017 by Thames & Hudson, ‘Dear Dolly’ is the photographer’s second book, published in 2023 by Baron.

Philomène Hoël (b.1985/France) is an artist living and working in London. Founder and curator of the artist-run space ´flat deux’ since 2015, (activation of the cinematic dimension of domestic spaces through artists invitations). She is a practice-based PhD Candidate at the University of Reading in partnership with LUX, with a proposal titled “Is it your hand or is it my hand?” dialogue with the artist and filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin (1939 – 2012). shows include: « Come and Go » Collective show, flat deux (2022) « Acting Out: Stephen Dwoskin », film screening, BFI London (2022) LUX (2020); « I am Jamie Green and I need a second heart » film screening and performance for Project Space (2020); Cherry Pickers“, Collective show, Podium Luxembourg (2019); “Show Me Love“, Solo, Casino Luxembourg (2018); “Linda Linda Linda“, Solo, Carreau du Temple, Paris (2018); Dynamo Club, Solo, Chalton Gallery, London (2018); “Deja Vu” Collective show, Chalton Gallery, London (2018) ; “The Second Heart“, Solo, Doc Paris (2017); Keep It Longer, Solo, Gallery SO, London (2017) ;“I wanna live in a world that I am used to”, Horse Hospital, London (2016); “The entertainer” at “It’s not the digging, it’s the dirt”,  Art Licks Weekend, London (2016); “You lonely white sugar on a sunny balcony”, Solo, flat deux, Balfron Tower, London (2016); “Hats off”, Ashley Gallery, Berlin (2016); “Knot Knot”, flat deux, Balfron Tower, London (2016), “Don’t be dead”, Solo, Is there an opening here?” Curation, Espace Echallens, Lausanne; “The moment you know, you know, you know”, (2013)