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Expiry (2026)

"Life is short; Art is long..."
(Hippocrates, first Aphorism, 400 B.C.E)


SIMULTANEOUS WORLD PREMIERE - UK & POLAND

Newlyn Filmhouse, Cornwall, UK - 26th of July, 2pm BST (3pm CET)

Międzynarodowy Festiwal Sztuk Performatywnych, Muzeum Mazowieckie, Plocku, Poland - 26th of July, 3pm CET (2pm BST)


55minutes | Super 16mm to 4K | Exhibition: Digital 4K, Colour, Stereo, 1.66:1


Shot entirely on expired 16mm film stock, Expiry is a collaboration between filmmaker Huw Wahl and his father Ken Turner (b. 1926), the oldest living performance artist and painter in the UK. Through movement, breath, painting, conversations between his parents, and a series of environmental and human encounters, this deeply personal work is a love letter to ageing playfully and the power of creative action. Released as Ken turns 100, it asks what expiry means to us all, for our lives, for our art, and for our planet.


REVIEWS
"Expiry - elusive, suggestive, visually gorgeous - is less about Turner’s life than about life itself.""
Prospect Magazine, Sukhdev Sandhu


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