Scottish iPhone Filmmaker Wins Prestigious Turner Prize

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Scottish iPhone Filmmaker Wins Prestigious Turner Prize

An openly gay Scottish artist who celebrated ****** lives in a short film shot on an iPhone won Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize Tuesday.

This year’s four finalists for one of the world’s most coveted visual arts awards featured works packed with political punch.

Scotland’s Charlotte Prodger came out on top at a glitzy reception at London’s Tate Museum for a 33-minute visual compilation called BRIDGIT.

The jury said Prodger’s work “meanders through disparate associations ranging from JD Sports and standing stones to 1970s ******** separatism and Jimi Hendrix’s sound recordist.

“Her work explores issues surrounding ****** identity, landscape, language technology and time.”

The 44-year-old Glasgow-based artist – dressed in a simple white T-shirt for the occasion — said she felt “quite overwhelmed”.

“The stories that I am telling, although they are mine and are personal, are stories that a lot of people – well, I guess ****** people – have experienced,” she

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the BBC after picking up her GBP 25,000 ($32,000, EUR 28,000) prize.

Prodger had been working in relative anonymity for 20 years before making her breakthrough by being picked to represent Scotland at this year’s Venice Biennale arts exhibition.

“I guess my work is quite personal, and it’s becoming increasingly personal actually as time goes by, especially since I started making single-channel videos in the dark,” she told the BBC.

“I guess that became more personal. Maybe that resonates with people.”

Prodger beat out three other works shaped by an increasingly turbulent global political environment.

London-based Forensic Architecture used technology such as 3D modelling to document the deaths of two people in an ******** police raid on a Bedouin village in the Negev Desert last year.

Forensic Architecture had previously been tapped by Amnesty International to recreate in harrowing detail the brutal treatment of inmates in Syria’s Saidnaya military prison.

New Zealander Luke Willis Thompson made a ******-and-white silent film portrait of a woman who live-streamed the immediate aftermath of her ******** ********* boyfriend’s ****** after being pulled over by the police in the ******* States.

And Britain’s Naeem Mohaiemen’s selected films and installations explored the legacies of colonialism after World War II.

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