“I wanted to do a work on landscape for some time,” says British artist Gillian Wearing of her latest creative undertaking. “Not in the traditional sense, but the landscapes people see from their windows.” Intimacy, collaboration, and the public have always been at the heart of the Turner Prize winner’s stirring multimedia work, and her globally spanning film project Your Views invited individuals to upload raw videos of what they see outside their window via an open submission website. For NOWNESS, Wearing created a bespoke Your Views film that transports you from Hong Kong to London and Montreal to New York, featuring vistas as seen through the pulled-back curtains of artists and filmmakers including Margot Bowman, Aric Chen, Mary McCartney and Rad Hourani.

Where did you get the idea for the Your Views project?
Gillian Wearing: I see the window a bit like the viewfinder in a camera—it gives you a specific locked off view of the world outside. A lot of these views are not accessible to the person on the street. The idea is both photographic and cinematic.

What appeals about the open-call approach to you?
GW: I really like the idea of an international project that acknowledges our sense of how small the world feels through the internet and social media. Now you can make global collaborative works. If I went and filmed views around the world, it just wouldn't be that interesting. Everyone brings something unique to it, and most importantly they are views I wouldn't have been able to imagine or even have access to.

What do you like about that sense of waiting as we anticipate seeing a view unveiled in each film?
GW: There is always something compelling about looking at things as they really are, without special lighting or acting. I love Google Earth for the same reason, that you can visit parts of the world that are temporarily held in aspic. In this film, the surprise is that you can be transported from one part of the world to another, from summer to spring, from a quiet forest to a busy urban street.

Upload your films and be a part of Your Views here.