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Artists’ moving image works take a central place in this year’s Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, directed by newly appointed Peter Taylor.

Artist wins award for apocalyptic film of building sites left empty and half built in austerity-hit Britain.

This weekend at the fourth edition of Tramway’s Artists’ Moving Image Festival in Glasgow, Transmission Gallery presents the Film Open 2015 – a new touring programme of 20 films from five artists’ support networks in the UK.

Six artist filmmakers have been shortlisted for the £10,000 prize, which this year will include a UK-wide tour as part of the programme for the first time.

Karen Kramer and Alice May Williams have been awarded this year’s £20,000 Jerwood/FVU Awards commissions to develop new film projects that reflect on the uncertain nature of our contemporary economic and ecological situation.

Inaugural festival featuring film, performance and installation launches this weekend in Dalston, London with a focus on young artists and curators.

This week’s UK-wide exhibition selection ranges from a major show of work by Glasgow-based 2008 Turner Prize nominee Cathy Wilkes at Tate Liverpool, to Chinese painter Zhang Enli at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.

Artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have been nominated in the Best Documentary category of the 2015 BAFTA Awards for their film highlighting a fictitious day-in-the-life of musician Nick Cave.

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard have been announced winners of The 2014 British Independent Film Award’s Debut Director category for 20,000 Days on Earth, their feature film about Nick Cave that merges fiction with documentary.

The winner of the 2014 Film London Jarman Award and the four recipients of Random Acts commissions for Channel 4 have been announced.

John Smith’s latest film installation, White Hole, a continuation of his Film London Jarman Award commission, opens at The Gallery, Tyneside Cinema’s new artists’ moving image space.

The French-Albanian artist Anri Sala has been awarded the sixth Vincent Award, which recognises European contemporary art.

The £40,000 Contemporary Art Society Annual Award for an artist working within a museum has been won by Nathaniel Mellors in partnership with Preston’s Harris Museum.

Goldsmiths is to celebrate the life and critical influence of leading cultural theorist Stuart Hall with a week-long series of discussions, screenings and exhibitions that culminates with an international conference exploring his legacy.

The Turner Prize-winning artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen has revealed that his next film will be about the black American singer and activist Paul Robeson.

The 2014 Turner Prize show has opened to the public, with three of the four shortlisted artists presenting film pieces.