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Shell Company was established by Seth Pimlott and Pearl Doughty-White as a platform for collaborative moving-image practice. The company is an umbrella under which a changing cast of collaborators can assemble, an approach that attempts to address the complexities of group work and disseminated authorship. Our projects are participatory and based on long-term relationships with artists and groups: they are filmic portraits, often developed through a workshop process, where we attempt to hold the individual in productive tension with the collective.
Current areas of research include the poetics of fragility and chronic illness, coping with existential anxiety, and the body as a repository of experience.
We think of filmmaking as an apparatus that can bring communities into being, that can have action on the world through its processes as well as its outcomes, and are interested in using it as a tool to articulate the systems that give rise to the phenomena we encounter together.
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Studio address
Vault 3
Somerset House Studios
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
Selected exhibitions, awards and screenings
2020
The Grierson Awards, Best Documentary Short for Country Girl (dir. Ellen Evans, co-producer Pearl Doughty-White)
2020
Somerset House, Pause
2020
Serpentine Galleries, Moving Up
2019
Underwire Festival, Producer’s Award for Country Girl (dir. Ellen Evans, co-producer Pearl Doughty-White)
2019
Somerset House Studios residency
2019
Sin Lugar a dudas (Colombia), La Escuela
2018
MOCA TaiPei (Taiwan), I want God, I want poetry...
2018
Whitechapel Gallery, Alone Together
2018
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crossroads Festival selected by Cauleen Smith
2018
MIMA, This is Water
2018
Gasworks, La Escuela
2018
Block 336, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017/18
2017
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017/18
2017
Arts Council England grant for the arts, A Concatenation of Rhythms at Gasworks
2016
Gasworks, Participatory Artist in Residence, 2016-18
2016
Chisenhale Arts Place, Pete Lloyd Lewis Award
2016
ReachOutRCA, Durham Wharf Residency
2015
Pumphouse Gallery, 100 Acres
2015
Kyoto University of the Arts Residency (Japan)
2015
no.w.here, BFI & Wellcome Trust, We Cannot Unsee
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