Oscar-nominated director Garrett Bradley wins 2023 Art & Film prize

The US artist and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Garrett Bradley has been introduced because the winner of the 2023 Artwork & Movie prize, which is awarded by Amsterdam’s Eye Filmmuseum. The Eye Artwork & Movie award has been working since 2015 and was first gained by the German filmmaker and pioneer of the essay documentary Hito Steyerl. It’s awarded to artists for an standout physique of visible work that lies on the intersection of artwork and movie.

Bradley was chosen by a world jury of six together with Chris Dercon, the managing director of Paris’s Fondation Cartier, the Lesotho artist and movie director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, and the Indian artist Nalini Malani. The award comes with a money prize of €30,000 (supported by the Dutch arts, structure and science physique Ammodo) and an exhibition at Eye Filmmuseum. Bradley will formally obtain the accolade on the Worldwide Documentary Pageant Amsterdam, which can be hosted on the museum subsequent week (Friday 10 November).

“Garrett Bradley is a dream winner” says Bregtje van der Haak, the director of Eye Filmmuseum and jury chair in an announcement. Van der Haak counseled Bradley’s “brave, visually compelling work” tackling racism and exclusion in addition to the filmmaker’s experimental cinematography. “Her movies and installations draw us in, problem us, stir our souls and get us desirous about the world,” van der Haak says.

Bradley’s debut documentary characteristic Time (2020) made historical past when it earned her the most effective director award within the US documentary class at Sundance—Bradley changing into the primary Black girl within the historical past of the movie pageant to obtain the prize. Time follows Sibil Fox Richardson —also called “Fox Wealthy”—as she fights for her husband Rob’s launch from a 60-year jail sentence he was serving following a financial institution theft. The movie went on to be nominated for an Academy Award in the most effective documentary characteristic class, nonetheless it misplaced out on the Oscar to American Manufacturing unit (2019), directed by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar.

Bradley’s newest exhibition was a brief run of her 2019 video work AKA (2019) at Sydney’s COMA gallery in March. Final yr, she exhibited Tasks 111: Garrett Bradley—a movie monitoring pivotal moments in Black historical past via 12 black-and-white vignettes—at New York’s Museum of Fashionable Artwork. Between 2019 and February this yr, the exhibition Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody was hosted by establishments together with the Modern Arts Museum Houston, the Museum of Modern Artwork, Los Angeles and The Momentary in Bentonville, Arizona.