Dr Andrea Zimmerman
Title
Reader - Lecturer in Dramaturgy and Devising For Performance BA (Honours)
College
Central Saint Martins
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Researcher Research

Biography
I am an artist filmmaker and my work calls for a profound re-imagining of the relationship between people, place and ecology. Focusing on marginalised individuals, communities and experience, I use hybridity and narrative de/re-framing, alongside reverie and a creative waywardness. Informed by suppressed histories, and alert to sources of radical hope, my work prioritises an enduring and equitable co-existence.Films include the award winning Artangel-produced 'Here for Life' (2019), which received its world premiere in the Cineasti Del Presente international competition of the Locarno Film Festival, 'Erase and Forget' (2017), premiering at the Berlin Film Festival (nominated for the Original Documentary Award), 'Estate, a Reverie' (2015) (nominated for Best Newcomer at the Grierson awards) and 'Taskafa, Stories of the Street' (2013), written and voiced by the late John Berger.
Selected exhibitions include 'Civil Rites', the London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, 'Common Ground' at Spike Island, Bristol and 'Real Estates' at Peer Gallery. Andrea co-founded the cultural collectives Fugitive Images and Vision Machine (collaborators on Academy Award® nominated feature documentary 'The Look of Silence').
I co-edited the books 'Estate: Art, Politics and Social Housing in Britain' (Myrdle Court Press) and 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness Trauma and Resistance' (House Sparrow Press) and have published extended essays in 'Open Democracy', 'La Furia Umana', ‘Another Gaze’ and 'Homecultures', among others.
I received the 2020 Filmlondon Jarman Award, with Michelle Williams Gamaker, Rosie Hastings & Hannah Quinlain, Jenn Nkiru, Larissa Sansour, Project Art Works. Our statement: "Art and artists have the power to make change and for this reason we want to share the prize as a statement of equity for the works we are all invested in making and those they give voice to… We believe that our cultural contribution takes on increased resonance, despite the difficulty of the circumstances we find ourselves in. Our work stems from a multiplicity of perspectives that we cannot privilege, one over the other...”'
I grew up on a council estate and left school at 16.
Reasearch interests:
Co-existence (including non-human subjectivities), filmmaking as engaged social and political practice, participatory re-enactment, military/spectacular relations, imaginative hybridity and narrative de-framing in documentary practice, forms of reverie, class and culture, social and environmental justice, place and senses of belonging.
She / They
Research Outputs
Art/Design item
- Zimmerman AL. Shelter in Place (2021)
- Zimmerman AL. Here for Life (2019)
- Zimmerman AL. Taşkafa stories of the street (TAŞKAFA, BİR SOKAK HİKÂYESİ) (2018)
- Zimmerman AL. Lower Street: A Night Journey (2018)
- Zimmerman AL. Erase and Forget (2017)
- Zimmerman AL. More Utopias Now for Random Acts (2016)
- Zimmerman AL. Estate, a Reverie (2015)
- Zimmerman AL. Birdboy and the General (2014)
- Zimmerman AL. merzschmerz (2014)
- Zimmerman AL, Roberts D. Estate: A walk, a conversation and a projection (2013)
- Zimmerman AL. Towards Estate (2013)
- Zimmerman AL, Johansson L. Swanley’s Hidden Histories (2012)
- Zimmerman AL, Johansson L. Estate: excerpt from film (2012)
- Zimmerman AL. The Ramp (2010)
- Zimmerman AL. ICFAR PhD Master Classes, Andrea Luka Zimmerman (2009)
- Zimmerman AL. The Last Biscuit (2006, 23mins) by Paul Hallam and Andrea Luka Zimmerman (2006)
- Zimmerman AL. The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow (2001)
Article
- Zimmerman AL, Henningsen T. Otherwise: Notes on Being Perennially In-Between (2020)
- Zimmerman AL. ERASURES: Being, Seen (2019)
- Zimmerman AL. Secreting History / Screening ‘History’: 21 takes (2019)
- Zimmerman AL. On Poverty (2018)
- Zimmerman AL. Co-existence (2016)
- Zimmerman AL. Prisoner of War (work in progress) at Sharna Pax, Chisenhale Gallery (2015)
- Zimmerman AL. Prisoner of War (2015)
- Zimmerman AL. Human Conditions: the Lives of Estate/s (2015)
- Zimmerman AL. Estates of being: Thoughts on the place of living and working (2015)
- Zimmerman AL, Roberts D. The Certainty of Uncertainty (2013)
- Zimmerman AL. On common ground: the making of meaning in film and life (2013)
- Zimmerman AL, Roberts D. Re-imagining Council Housing (2013)
- Zimmerman AL, Johansson L. In Wait (2011)
Book
- Zimmerman AL, Johansson L. Estate (2010)
Book Section
Conference, Symposium or Workshop item
- Zimmerman AL. Lincoln Creates Network Talk with Andrea Luka Zimmerman (2020)
- Zimmerman AL. Unexpected Views: Andrea Luka Zimmerman on Caravaggio | National Gallery (2020)
- Zimmerman AL. Symposium: The Question of Collaboration (2018)
- Zimmerman AL. Stoke Newington Literary Festival: John Berger: Ways of Seeing (2017)
- Zimmerman AL. Andrea Luka Zimmerman in conversation with Maggie Ellis, at 'Future Now: The Aesthetica Art Prize Symposium' (2016)
- Zimmerman AL. The Living School: Poverty (2016)
- Zimmerman AL. Homeland (in)securities (2012)
- Zimmerman AL. Estate: a critical inquiry in 3 parts (2012)
Other
- Zimmerman AL. Migrants Bureau: In Conversation w/Andrea Luka Zimmerman (2020)
- Zimmerman AL. London Review Bookshop Screen at Home: Here for Life, with Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Gareth Evans (2020)
- Zimmerman AL. Hear for Life (2019)
Performance
- Zimmerman AL. Art Class: a performance lecture (2020)
Show/Exhibition
- Zimmerman AL. The London Open 2018 (2018)
- Zimmerman AL. Civil Rites (2017)
- Zimmerman AL. Common Ground (2017)
- Zimmerman AL. Estate, a Reverie (Jarman Award Tour 2015) (2015)
- Zimmerman AL, Roberts D. Real Estates (2015)
- Zimmerman AL. The Delmarva Chicken Of Tomorrow (2014)
- Zimmerman AL. Towards Estate (2013)
- Zimmerman AL, Roberts D, Forrester E, Campbell B. From Heroin to Heroines (2012)
- Zimmerman AL, Roberts D. The Estate in Film - Empty Words build Empty Homes (2012)
- Zimmerman AL, Johansson L. I Know It’s Not a Palace (2011)
- Zimmerman AL. Flat screens (2011)
- Zimmerman AL, Johansson L, Fennnell T. i am here (2009-2014) (2009)