Turner prize for iPhone video

THE Turner Prize has been won by a video shot on an iPhone.

In a year when the shortlist was overtly political, featuring art about racial violence, police brutality and human rights abuses, Charlotte Prodger took home the controversial £25,000 award for two videos she made using her smartphone.

The jury praised the ‘painterly quality’ of the first film, Bridgit, which includes footage of a lorry driving down a long road and cargo boats out at sea. Miss Prodger’s work also includes images of JD Sports, standing stones, 1970s lesbianism and Jimi Hendrix.

Judges said Glasgow- based Miss Prodger uses the iPhone ‘as a prosthesis or extension of the nervous system’.

Among the other works was a portrait of the girlfriend of an American shooting victim and a film about left-wing political movements in the developing world.