Trained as a painter, James Edmonds is an artist-filmmaker from the UK living in Berlin. His practice centres on a personal poetics in which the nature of recording, particularly when approached from the materiality of a medium, offers a tangible yet ultimately paradoxical surface for what is intangible and fleeting - our personal experience, inner worlds, thoughts and reflections. His work manifests in analogue films, painted gestures and long-form soundworks and texts, occasionally combined along with found objects or materials to create immersive environments.



He has presented screenings and exhibitions at various art and cinema events, including, TIFF Toronto, NYFF New York, First Look at MoMI New York, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Curtas Vila do Conde, Open City London, FICUNAM Mexico City, and EXiS Seoul.



From 2015-18 he organised regular film screenings in Berlin in a series called Light Movement. He has collaborated with his partner, artist Petra Graf on various projects, including installations, performances and curatorial projects such as the Grass Harp exhibition and edition series in Berlin. Most recently the duo collaborated on several film works, and in 2024 took part in the Spectral Wandering Residency organised by artist film lab MIRE (Nantes).

His most recent film, the meditative 22 minute long Songs Overheard in the Shadows (2025), premiered internationally at The Museum of the Moving Image, New York, and in Europe at Curtas Vila do Conde.