Adam Roberts

From 1991 to 2016 Adam Roberts made films and videos. His film 'Mickey Finn' won the Grand Prix du Jury at Angers international Film Festival in 1992, where the jury included André Téchiné and Chantal Akerman. His film collaborations have included film-maker Jack Hazan, choreographer Jonathan Burrows, composers Kevin Volans & Matteo Fargion, and the dancer Sylvie Guillem. His work has been shown at Whitechapel Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Haus der Kunst Munich, MAXXI Gallery Rome, BFI Southbank, on BBC TV and Channel 4 Television. In 2011, with the noted film director Joanna Hogg, he founded A Nos Amours, which has programmed screenings, curated exhibitions, and staged conferences. Between 2013 and 2015 A Nos Amours curated, with Chantal Akerman's participation, an unequalled complete retrospective of Akerman's films and video at London's ICA, with breakout events across the UK. An ambitious Arts Council of England and Marion Goodwin Gallery supported exhibition of much of her installation work followed at Ambika P3 in London, curated by A Nos Amours. In 2019 A Nos Amours published the 'Chantal Akerman Retrospective Handbook', which included much writing by Adam, with a forward by Laura Mulvey. The book has run to several editions. Between 2015 and 2017 Adam, in collaboration with Paul Coleman, produced and filmed an unprecedented series of in depth interviews with long-term survivors HIV: The AIDS Since the 80s Project (now The HIV Story Trust), which have been taken into the London Metropolitan Archives and become a key historical resource. In 2020 Adam's book 'Lamentation. In the Stuart Croft Archive' was published by Ma Bibliothèque. It is part memoir, part essay, dealing with themes loss and survival, retrospection and the archive, and of ellipsis at a time of mass-extinction. "I float among the movies I have seen or half remember. They are inchoate and lovely. I bask in the warm seas of the past, amid the myriad forms of other lives around me" ('Lamentation. In the Stuart Croft Archive', p57). Adam has taught documentary film making at London Academy of Film & TV and directing at The Drama Centre. He has lectured on film at Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, Westminster and LCC.