THE HORROR SHOW The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain is co-curated by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard with Claire Catterall, Somerset House's senior curator.
Gazelle Twin & NYX: Deep England Gazelle Twin & NYX: Deep England is a live performance film by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard filmed at Shoreditch Town Hall in June 2021.
Jarv Is… Live from the Centre of the Earth Jarv Is... 'Beyond The Pale' Live from the Centre of the Earth is a live concert filmed in a cave in the Peak District during the 2020 lockdown as a r
STRANGER THAN KINDNESS For 'Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition' Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard collaborated with Nick Cave and the Royal Danish Library to create
Somnoproxy 'Somnoproxy' is an immersive sound installation. It incorporates a futuristic bedtime story about a conman who offers his services to sleep on behalf
Multigraphs Multigraphs are an ongoing series of portraits by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. They are made using a Victorian mirror device, capturing five simultane
The Dazzler Video for Ex:Re, the new solo project of Elena Tonra from Daughter. It features Maxine Peake as well as cameos of Elena and Fabian Prynn from her band
Doublethink DOUBLETHINK is a video installation housed inside two shipping containers. It features George MacKay, written by Stuart Evers and scored by Warren Ell
The Dali & The Cooper The Dali & The Cooper is an episode in Sky’s series Urban Myths. Directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, starring Noel Fielding as rock icon Alice
Different Trains 1947 Different Trains 1947 is an audiovisual project commissioned by Metal. It premiered at the Barbican Centre in London on 1st October 2017.
Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories A four-part TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s short stories directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, featuring a host of British acting talent includin
Requiem For 114 Radios Immersive installation presented as part of the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at Somerset House. Featuring 14 guest vocalists singing “Dies Irae” thr
Murder: The Big Bang Murder is a BAFTA award-winning drama co-created by Robert Jones and Kath Mattock The final episode, Murder: The Big Bang, is directed by Iain Forsy
Three Films For the release of their second album, Daughter invited Iain & Jane to create a series of three short films for their songs: How, Numbers and Doing th
A Long Goodnight A Long Goodnight is the outcome of a four day residency in the Moog SoundLab at the Ace Hotel London. Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard created this new wor
Paradise Lost? Paradise Lost? is a 9 minute single channel video work by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, featuring Florence Pugh, Toby Sebastian, Sean Harris and Henry
Who is Gil Scott-Heron? Who is Gil Scott-Heron is a film made at the suggestion of Richard Russell from XL Recordings. It is a portrait of Gil, seen through the eyes of those
EDIT EDIT is a unique collaboration between musician Joe McAlinden, artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, writer Martin McCardie and arts producer Katie Nic
20,000 Days on Earth Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon Nick Cave. Iain & Jane's BAFTA nominated de
Higgs Boson Blues The video for 'Higgs Boson Blues' by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds was directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. It was shot with cinematographer Lol Crawl
Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic the enigmatic Scott Walker teamed up with artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard to create Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic, an utterly unique and immersive son
Londonion Londonion is an iPhone App by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, with Stewart Lee based on the Kurt Schwitters poem 'London Onion' from 1946.
Jumpers Jumpers (What must I do to be saved) is a large-format video installation that takes inspiration from the religious practice of ‘jumping’ as a for
Still Video for 'Still' from Daughter's debut album 'If You Leave' that was released in 2013 in UK & Europe via 4AD & in North America via Glassnote.
Romeo Echo Delta ROMEO ECHO DELTA is a sound project inspired by Orson Welles’ radio play of H.G Well’s science fiction novel War of the Worlds. The work was broad
SOON Soon was a monumental new installation in Commerce Court, a public square in Toronto’s financial district. Commissioned by the City of Toronto for N
First Kiss First Kiss is an impossible re-enactment. Forsyth & Pollard cast two young actors as themselves to reconstruct a moment that never happened – their
I’m New Here Gil Scott Heron performs a live version of 'I'm New Here' from his album with Richard Russell for XL Recordings.
Black Smoke The video for 'Black Smoke' by Tindersticks was directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, and filmed at Le Chien Chanceaux in France, where the alb
Do you love me like I love you Do you love me like I love you is a series of 14 short films by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard commissioned by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to accompany the
Bunny Munro Audiobook Nick Cave invited Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard to produce the audiobook for his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro. Keen to create an immersive and
The Walls Are Coming Down The video for 'The Walls Are Coming Down' by Fanfarlo was directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. It features the classic Houdini upside-down strait
RADIO MANIA Radio Mania: An Abandoned Work is part film, part rehearsal, captured using contemporary 3D video and audio technologies. It was commissioned by the B
PERFORMER. AUDIENCE. FUCK OFF. Forsyth & Pollard’s film of Performer. Audience. Fuck Off. documents a live performance work they presented at Site Gallery, Sheffield, with Iain Le
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! In 2008 Forsyth & Pollard were invited by Nick Cave to direct their first music video, for the single Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Run For Me Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard were the recipients of the 2008 Great North Run Moving Image Commission. Run For Me, charts the course of the run, aimin
Walking Over Acconci Building on their series of videos reworking video art of the late sixties and early seventies, the piece reworks Vito Acconci’s 1970 performance Le
Re-Learning Piece Building on their series of videos reworking video art of the late sixties and early seventies, the piece reworks Vito Acconci’s 1970 performance Le
The 24 seven The 24 seven was commissioned by Milton Keynes Gallery. Forsyth & Pollard worked with the Young People’s Project, recruiting seven members of the gr
Far Gone And Out Far Gone And Out continues the psychological experiments initiated by Forsyth & Pollard with Silent Sound. The resulting piece is a sonic limbo, bring
Make Me Yours Again In June 2007, Forsyth & Pollard were invited to Auckland to make a new exhibition at the Moving Image Centre Toi Rerehiko in Auckland. They created 'M
Kiss My Nauman Commissioned by Jarvis Cocker for the Meltdown Festival, Kiss My Nauman is a four channel video installation that references Art Make-Up, by American
Live Sessions Since being invited to film a live session with Grinderman in 2008, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard have gone on to direct a number of live sessions for v
Silent Sound Silent Sound is an installation that centres around a machine that purports to be able to embed a subliminal message within a piece of music. Scored b
Silent Sound (live) Silent Sound is live performance that that centres around a machine that purports to be able to embed a subliminal message within a piece of music. Sc
Walk With Nauman Walk With Nauman (Re-Performance Corridor) references Bruce Nauman’s Performance Corridor and his related video, Walk with Contrapposto (both 1968).
Walking After Acconci The first in Iain & Jane's series of re-workings of seminal videos from the late sixties and seventies. Using the language of urban music video, they
Anyone else isn’t you Anyone else isn’t you is an unscripted portrait of fourteen young people talking directly to the camera about love and loss. Forsyth & Pollard use t
File under Sacred Music File under Sacred Music takes as it’s starting point an infamous bootleg video documenting a live performance by The Cramps for the patients at Napa
Fucked up lover For Fucked up lover, Forsyth & Pollard invited 12 friends to compile an audio mixtape for their lovers. Each participant was then filmed discussing th
A Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide Twenty-five years to the day since David Bowie’s infamous ‘farewell’ performance as Ziggy Stardust, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard recreated the en
Damaged Damaged was originally produced as a limited edition of 100 VHS video cassettes labelled with a sticker marked ‘Damaged’. On the cassette is a vid
The Smiths is dead The Smiths is dead was Forsyth & Pollard’s first ICA Live Art Commission, and was presented in the ICA Theatre on 1st August 1997.
The World Won’t Listen The World Won’t Listen was Forsyth & Pollard’s first live art event. The event, a ‘readymade performance’, took as its starting point the musi
Chain Smoker, Tap Dancer Chain Smoker, Tap Dancer was Forsyth & Pollard’s first video work, an early experiment in self-portraiture.
Words & Pictures In May 1994, before beginning their collaboration as artists, Forsyth & Pollard initiated Words & Pictures – Ultra-Paranoid (Extra-Spatial) Portable
