Archive of Karshan Films
Filmed Documents 2008-2023
2023
HOMAGE TO ITALO CALVINO
2021 & 2022
OF PIVOTAL WORKS & CALVINO
November 2021, filmed 2017
Linda Karshan discusses her pivotal works and their natural embodiment of Italo Calvino’s 'Six Memos for the Next Millennium', to which she appends her own memo: "Coherence".
"...they were important for literature, so they are certainly important for my work."
Recorded in Knightsbridge, London, on 27th October 2017, this unique conversation offers rare insights into Karshan's early experiments, including processes and media, on her way to establishing her voice.
Of Pivotal Works & Calvino is characterised by Karshan's exceptional eloquence, and it is resplendent with telling anecdotes from her long art career, and quotations from her wide reading.
It is part of a filmic quintet by Ishmael Annobil
Interviewer/Director/Editor: Ishmael Annobil
Cinematography: Ishmael Annobil and Nana Yaa Annobil
Sound Recordist: Ishmael Annobil
Sound Editor: Nick Kulukundis
Production Company: Stonedog Productions
LINDA KARSHAN : STUDIO VIEW & JOTTINGS
March 2022, filmed 2017
This is a documentary based on an extempore conversation between groundbreaking American artist Linda Karshan and Ghanaian filmmaker and poet Ishmael Annobil, on 27 October 2017.
An adjunct to an interview about Karshan's pivotal works, 'Studio View & Jottings' concentrates on the artist's keynote exhibition, 'Linda Karshan: Studio View' (The Redfern Gallery, in 2017), and her spellbinding 'jottings' on telling scholarly thought, philosophies, theories and re-workings of old and new aphorisms and wisdoms, that form a parallel narrative in the exhibition catalogue: 'Studio View: A book in There Parts'.
This short film sees Karshan at her most erudite, establishing her classical and contemporary influences as well as her uncanny affinity with the primordial, pre-intellectual mark makers, and her apparent atavism.
Producer/Director/Editor: Ishmael Annobil
Cinematographers: Ishmael Annobil and Nana Yaa Annobil
Production Company: Stonedog Productions
GLINT: A PROCESSION
October 2021, filmed 2017
Linda Karshan discusses with Ishmael Annobil her 2016 print series, Glint I-VII, created in collaboration with Gregory Burnet, New York City, 3-6 April 2016.
Cinematographers: Ishmael Annobil & Nana Yaa Annobil
Direction/Interviewing/Sound: Ishmael Annobil
Production Company: Stonedog Productions
KARSHAN & CAREY AT THE REDFERN
September 2021, filmed 2017
A rare talk by Linda Karshan and Frances Carey, curator, writer and former Deputy Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, on 8th October 2017, in the context of Karshan's 70th Birthday exhibition, LINDA KARSHAN - STUDIO VIEW / PRINTS AND DRAWINGS, 1983-2017, at the Redfern Gallery, London. Organised by Art Graphica in collaboration with the Redfern Gallery, and presented by Dr. Naomi Lebens.
Director/Editor: Ishmael Fiifi Annobil
Cinematographers: Ishmael Fiifi Annobil and Nana Yaa Annobil
Sound Recordist: Nikos Nikolalaios
Production: Stonedog Productions
Music: Chad Crouch Copyright
© Ishmael Annobil & Linda Karshan
2017
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Linda Karshan : Educating the Stone; Being Educated by the Stone
February 2017
Produced by Harald Schluttig / Weissraum
In February 2017 Karshan created her first Lithography in Grafikwerkstatt Dresden. During her drawing on stone Weissraum recorded the process from different views.
“Lithography is the call and response of marks through the ages. A bloodline from hand to stone to hand.”
Elizabeth Tomos, in a note to Linda Karshan, February 2017
2016
Linda Karshan : Handpressendrucke
2016
Produced by Harald Schluttig / Weissraum
Film of Karshan engraving her first color drypoint woodcut Double Yellow Drive, 2016 at Grafikwerkstatt Dresden, 2016
Linda Karshan - The Assigned Figure
December 1, 2016
Produced by Harald Schluttig/Weissraum
Filmed performance at Galerie Ursula Walter in Dresden with Drypoint Woodcut for Dresden', 2016 in the background.
2014
Linda Karshan - Lines crossed inner spaces
2014
Produced by L’esprit Du Monde
Interview with Karshan about her practice.
2008
Linda Karshan : Movements and their Images
December 2008
A short documentary film recording Karshan's drawing process in her Dulwich studio in London 2008.