Keith Sargent
Keith rgent is an artist and film-maker since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1988. He is a director of b#1 (), 3x3x3.tv and Adsurd(ah), an award winning graphic designer and multi-award winning (20) film-maker: films having been shown in ninety-seven film festivals throughout the world. He works in collaboration with artist Lindsay Seers on large scale commissions and exhibitions throughout the world.
Keith has a depth of industry design experience, having worked on diverse projects; from small-scale interventions to the interior branding of an entire four story HQ for Cadbury, or designing the 48th D&AD annual: Everything is Made. As a book publisher Keith makes, designs and commissions books, working with artists, photographers, illustrators and writers, having produced thirty titles that have been sold worldwide. Press for Fashion Forever covered 324 column inches, with a six page article in the Sunday Times Magazine.
His films have been commissioned for commercial projects with clients such as Sony Ericsson, Cadbury, Canonical (Ubuntu), LG, Vodafone, Sony, Energy Saving Trust, Siemens Mobile, MTV, Artangel and the D&AD.
His films have been shown in London, Bristol, Bath, Berlin, Moscow, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Iran, Lebanon, Oslo, Barcelona, Madrid, Vancouver, Toronto, Hollywood, Skopje, Lisbon, Budapest, Cannes, Paris, New York, Czech Republic, Romania, Prague, Rome, Köln, Macedonia, Sweden, Australia, Mumbai, Istanbul, Kolkata, Athens, Russia, Malta, Earth. Three films are shown on the pay per view Canadian/American Art Film Channel: Wildsounds. He has exhibited in London, Margate, Berlin, Southend, Belfast, Lebanon, Oslo, Arbroath, Knole House, Brighton, Bath, Dunkerque, Bristol, Lincoln, Birmingham, Sharjah(UAE).
Keith Sargent currently works as Lecturer(0.6) BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Year 3 Lead, School of Fine Arts, Crafts and Photography at UCA. He lives and works on the Isle of Sheppey, Sheerness-on-Sea, UK. He has a beautiful rescue dog called Milo.
Lindsay Seers & Sargent began working together in 2012 when Sargent was commissioned to develop digital animations and publications for Seers. Over the intervening years this continued and developed into a collaborative practice. The artists have developed a language of blending objects, environments, light, sound, VR and CGI to contemplate quantum theory in a search for truths. Their work references human, animal and plant life with an ultimate desire for a new philosophy of metaphysical thought that can chime with the science it evokes.
Seers & Sargent have shown in Cold Light (Lite), Chaleur Humaine, Triennale Art and Industrie, FRAC, Frac Grand Large, Dunkerque, Hauts de France, France (2024); Cold Light, E-werk, Luckenwalde, Berlin, Germany (2023); Cold Light, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2022); Cold Light, Matt’s Gallery, London, UK (2022); Long-listed for the Aesthetica art prize for Every Thought There Ever Was, featured in Future Now (125 contemporary artists) catalogue and show 2021, York, UK (2021); Plicnik Space Initiative online virtual space show, film Anomaly 4 for one year, Earth (2020-21); Nowhere Less Now3 [flying saucer], Sharjah Art Foundation (2020); Care(less), Fabrica Gallery, Brighton UK, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham UK, frequency festival, Lincoln UK (2019-20); Bath Alumni, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK (2020); Every Thought There Ever Was, installation/film/animation/sound, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton UK; Every Thought There Ever Was, installation/film/animation/sound, Hospitalfields, Arbroath, UK (2019); Vanishing Twin (Tetragametic Chimerism), Fotogalleriet, Oslo (2019); 2052 Selves [a biography], Knole House, UK (2018). Every Thought There Ever Was, installation/film/animation/sound, The Mac, Belfast UK (2018); Every Thought There Ever Was, installation/film/animation/sound, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK (2018).
Recent Film Festivals
Today I Wrote Nothing, absurdist writer Daniil Kharms, Keith Sargent
2024 Semi-Finalist (Best Animation), Sensei Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan. 2024
Official Selection (Best Animation), Dialog Film Festival, Köln, Germany. 2024
2023 Award Winner (Best Black and White Film), Your Way International Film Festival, Valetta, Malta. 2023
Honourable Mention (Best Animation), Milano Indie Movie Awards, Milano, Italy. 2023
Honourable Mention (Best Animation), Art Film Awards, Skopje, Macedonia. 2023
Honourable Mention (Best Animation), Golden Giraffe International Film Festival, Nice, France. 2023
Semi-Finalist (Best Short Film), Sweden Film Awards, Stockholm, Sweden. 2023
Official Selection (Best Animation), Budapest International Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary. 2023
Official Selection (Best Experimental Film), Rome Prisma Film Awards, Rome, Italy. 2023
Always The Sun, Keith Sargent
A short film based on a poem: always the sun by Keith Sargent. Wilderness, illness and the great British cretinocracy. “Clowns in elevators, jesters, ungulated and non-ungulated, apocalyptic smoke escaping chimneys and gently shimmering brains in a neo-noir collage about the British society.” - Zebra Film Festival 2021.
2024 Semi-Finalist (Best Experimental Film), Sensei Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan. 2024
Official Selection (Best Experimental Film), Paris Awards Film Festival, Paris, France. 2024
Official Selection (Best Director Experimental Film), Cannes World Art Festival, Cannes, France. 2024
2023 Award Winner (Best Short Film), Budapest International Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary. 2023
Honourable Mention (Best No-Budget Film), Your Way International Film Festival, Valetta, Malta. 2023