Five of the six artists competing for the 2016 Jarman award for moving image art are women, exploring subjects as diverse as Alzheimer’s disease and Arab pop culture.
Whatever the result of the main award, a woman is guaranteed to win the Jules Wright prize.
Sophia Al Maria, Cécile B Evans, Shona Illingworth, Rachel Maclean and Heather Phillipson have been shortlisted alongside Mikhail Karikis for the £10,000 art prize, which is named after English film-maker Derek Jarman, who died in 1994.
“As well as serving to shock, startle and entertain, great art has the power to cut to the very heart of contemporary culture.”