One Ocean 2026: Artists' Film Screenings

What does it mean to truly live with the ocean, not as its masters, but as part of it?

The films in this session explore our deep, entangled existence with aqueous worlds, drawing on feminist and postcolonial thought to challenge the individualism and human exceptionalism that has long defined our relationship with the natural world. These are not films about saving the ocean, but about learning from it; asking what becomes possible when we listen to the depths, think collectively, and embrace the radical interconnectedness of all living things. To live with the ocean, rather than upon it, is to recognise that we were never separate to begin with.

Programme

Margaret Salmon, Oyster, 2016 
Featuring a cast of indigenous sea life from the Thames Estuary, then detailing the history and process of oyster harvesting in Kent, Oyster celebrates British aquatic life, as well as the unique history, and complex commercial legacy of the native oyster. 

Emilija Skarnulyte, Sunken Cities, 2021 
Set 10,000 years in the future, looking into the past (our present), the mermaid archeologist of Sunken Cities dives into depths of the Gulf of Naples. 

Elise Guillaume, Eventual Horizon, 2023 
Filmed in the Arctic, Eventual Horizon, perceives grief as co-dependent to hope, focussing on the intimately intertwined, transformative and healing power of these states.

Sonia Levy, For the Love of Corals, 2018 
Filmed within the Horniman Museum’s pioneering yet hidden coral laboratory, For the Love of Corals explores the uneasy terrain of caring for endangered beings within architectures of knowledge historically shaped by colonial extraction and systems of classification that continue to shape contemporary crisis. 

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, From My Mother’s Country, 2026 
From My Mother’s Country is a portrait of a place and practice of materialising and animating the stories of ancestors told by the Anindiliyakwa community on Groote Eylandt. It is the audio visual part of a larger sculptural installation in Ocean Space Venice. Made with Kasimir Burgess, Britten Andrews, Noeleen Lalara and Rebekah Wilson.

About the Curator

Daisy Gould is a Bermudian curator, researcher, and consultant currently based between London and Bermuda. Her PhD research, titled “Exceeding Absence: Bermudian Ecological Hauntology and Contemporary Visual Culture as Decolonial Possibility” engages Caribbean art and theory, focussing on contemporary Bermudian practices and the intersections of aesthetics, ecology, and decolonial thought. Informed by her academic research, Daisy’s professional practice spans collection management, curatorial programming, and ecological strategy for both private collections and public institutions. She has curated and produced programmes with institutions such as Serpentine, Hayward Gallery, Tate, Turner Contemporary, and Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, among others, and has contributed to several exhibition catalogues and journals as a writer and editor. Daisy holds a BA in Art History, an MA in Contemporary Art Theory and is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Art at The Courtauld.

One Ocean 2026 is a weekend of free talks, workshops and screenings on art, adaptation and the future of our oceans. Supported by the UK National Commission for UNESCO, Turner Contemporary presents a rich public programme of talks, documentary and artist film screenings, workshops and community activities. Through art, science and storytelling, One Ocean translates complex environmental issues into accessible, action-driven experiences.