Art on the Underground present Canary Wharf Screen

Canary Wharf Screen is an innovative new motion picture screening programme that will launch at Canary Wharf Tube station in March 2012, initiated and presented by Art on the Underground. The year-long project will show some of the best artists’ moving image, chosen by four of the UK’s leading film organizations and institutions, including new digital commissions and rarely seen films from the last century.



Canary Wharf Screen will be presented on one of London’s largest projection screens, located in the vast ticket hall of Canary Wharf station. Designed by Sir Norman Foster and intended as the showpiece of the Jubilee Line extension programme, Canary Wharf is one of the busiest stations on the London Underground network. With over 40 million people per year using the station, Canary Wharf Screen has a potentially huge and diverse captive audience.



The inaugural 2012 series will be split into four seasons, programmed in collaboration with Film and Video Umbrella, Animate, LUX and British Film Institute (BFI) respectively. Canary Wharf Screen offers an insight into the UK’s leading filmmakers and film institutions whilst surveying the strength and vibrancy of London’s arts community through its artists, commissioners, distributors and programmers.



Film and Video Umbrella will curate the first season for Canary Wharf Screen from March to May 2012, presenting The City in the City, a series of films by Mark Lewis, Melanie Manchot, Dryden Goodwin and Suki Chan that have been commissioned by the organisation over the last decade. A new site-specific film commission, Hold Your Ground, 2011, by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler will also be premiered.