A Collection of Six Films
Anthony Ellis
About the Collection
Natural Systems brings together six films by the artist, Anthony Ellis, created over a five-year period, alongside Anthony’s correspondent practices in photography, painting and writing. The films explore landscape, place and the formal properties of film, across urban and rural environments.
The Films
The works are exhibited in two parts, to be released separately in October and November 2025. Each part is exhibited in a single showreel format, accessible in the video player above, and lasting around eight minutes in total. Part One is available now, Part Two will be available on 20 November 2025.
Part One | 9 October—19 November 2025
1. Gardening | 1’40” (2024)
2. Field Works | 2’26” (2023)
3. Deansgate-Cornbrook | 2’37” (2022)
Part Two | 20 November — 8 January 2026
4. Wales–Ireland | 4’05” (2023)
5. Ford–Ford | 2’00” (2022)
6. Natural Systems | 3’00” (2025)
Booklet with Accompanying Texts
A booklet, with extended introduction and accompanying film texts, is available to download here.
About the Artist
Anthony Ellis is a UK-based artist and writer. He studied at Manchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. His interdisciplinary practice often utilises a repeating formal structure, focussing on correlative and reciprocal trajectories, across symbolic and material forms. He has exhibited, presented and screened work at various galleries and museums including Tate galleries, Castlefield Gallery, Exhibition Research Lab (LJMU) and Holden Gallery (MMU), and he has written for Corridor 8 and Screenworks.
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