Myrid Carten is an artist filmmaker based between the UK & Ireland. She makes films for cinemas and galleries. Using documentary and fiction, and often a playful combination of both, Myrid’s work interrogates both the struggle for intimacy and the ways we are compromised by our pasts. She explores, with generous ruthlessness, the universal desire to be both known and hidden, and the costs involved in both of these complicated commitments.
Myrid’s recent debut feature, A Want in Her, premiered in IDFA’s international competition 2024. It won three BIFAs in 2025 and Best International Film at DocPoint Helsinki 2025, Best International Documentary and the Audience Award at Dublin Film Festival 2025, Pull Focus Best Irish Documentary at Docs Ireland 2025 and a special mention in the International Competition at 2025 Millennium Docs Against Gravity Poland.
Originally from the Irish Gaeltacht, she trained in Artists’ Film at Goldsmiths University and Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London. Her films have screened internationally and been supported by the Doc Society, Screen Ireland, NI Screen, New Dawn Fund, and the Netherlands Film Fund. She was a member of Freelands Foundation PS2 artist development.
Recent exhibitions include: Preta 2 solo show, Mother’s Tank Station, London; Staying with the Trouble group show, IMMA Dublin; In The Same Breath group show, Freelands Foundation, London; Preta(Hungry Ghost) solo show, Mother’s Tank Station, Dublin; and Bones in the Attic, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
Recent residencies include: ISCP New York 2021, Hospitalfield Autumn Residency 2020-2021, Artlink 2020, and British Council’s International artist residency in India.
Recent awards include: Screen Ireland ‘The Voice’ 2020, Stuart Croft Educational Award 2020, DocsIE Pitch Award 2019, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Project Award 2018-19, and the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award 2018-19.
Her work is in the Arts Council of Ireland Collection and the Arts Council of NI Collection.