Urban Projections at Bright Winter Nights 2026 videoclub is collaborating with Junction Arts to commission a new work by Urban Projections for Bolsover Castle as part of Bright Winter Nights, taking place on 26–27 November 2026. This year’s theme, Speak My Voice, puts the people of Bolsover at the heart of the programme, with new…
Art, technology and the natural world come together for three days of extraordinary creative experiences across Brighton. Dreamy Place returns this October with a city-wide programme of art, creative technology and moving image, transforming galleries, streets and public spaces into places of discovery, curiosity and imagination. This year’s festival explores nature and our changing relationship…
videoclub is celebrating 20 years of existence this year! And what an incredible 20 years it’s been – starting with pop-up screenings in Brighton in 2006 to delivering over 300 projects and screenings in collaboration with UK and international partners by 2026. We’ve worked with over 1,000 artists and reached audiences in the millions through web, broadcast, exhibitions,…
Resident artists, August 2026 clockwise from top left: Sophie Hoyle, Mariette Moor and Helen Stratford For the 12th Vital Capacities residency, we partner with Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network and Wysing Arts Centre to work with UK-based artists. From 1 August, artists Sophie Hoyle, Mariette Moor and Helen Stratford will join Vital Capacities to…
Selected 16 film trailer contains excerpts from artists’ work in the programme. Trailer soundtrack: I AM THE WORLD by Che Applewhaite / Swan Drama. Selected 16 A screening of bold new artists’ moving image works from across the UK Selected 16 presents a vibrant collection of new short films by some of the most exciting…
A circular projection created by artists Annis Joslin and Chahine Fellahi for Play Back Forward, welcoming visitors into the exhibition space. The work brings together experiments with film apparatus and fragments from the Screen Archive South East collection, introducing the exhibition’s exploration of early film, perception, and the technologies that shaped the moving image. Play…
Created by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin, Portals is an immersive video installation exploring the relationship between cinematic time, memory, and perception. Composed of looping images, flickering celluloid textures, and layered soundscapes of projectors, trains, and radio signals, the work creates a meditative, dreamlike environment where fragments of moving image drift between past and…
Created by artist Annis Joslin in collaboration with Chahine Fellahi, this video work weaves together fragments of early films by the Hove Pioneers with newly captured footage recorded through a handmade cardboard camera obscura and transferred digitally. The optical principle of the camera obscura – Latin for “dark chamber” – is often considered a precursor…
This video work by artists Annis Joslin and Chahine Fellahi explores early cinema’s ability to stretch, fragment, and reshape our perception of time. At its centre is Loïe Fuller’s hypnotic dance, her swirling forms and luminous fabric embodying the fluid expansion and contraction of time. The work was presented as part of Play Back Forward,…
A series of stereoscope cards documenting objects from the early film and optical media collection at Brighton & Hove Museums. The images depict film printers, projectors, optical apparatus, and film canisters dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The interactive cards were presented at Hove Museum of Creativity as part of Play Back Forward…
A short Super 8 film documenting the film and media collection held at Brighton and Hove Museums. The film offers a visual record of early film and optical media devices within the collection, including a 35mm film printer, early stereoscopes, and magic lanterns. It moves through the museum’s apparatus, observing their forms, mechanics, and material…
Documentation from the Wonder Club, a participatory programme of workshops that ran across four cycles between October 2023 and October 2025 with young people from Brighton and Hove aged 13–16. Inspired by the histories, techniques, and imaginaries of early film and optical media, the workshops explored a range of creative processes through hands-on experimentation and…
A series of photographic experiments inspired by the early Kinemacolor process developed by George Albert Smith, one of the pioneers of early colour cinema. Drawing from Smith’s use of flowers and botanical imagery, young people from the Wonder Club programme recreated a series of natures mortes and still-life compositions. Using the Kinemacolor bi-colour process —…
A short piece created by artist Annis Joslin in collaboration with participants from the Wonder Club during a workshop exploring objects that appear in early films made by Brighton and Hove pioneers. Using green-screen techniques, participants playfully worked with a series of objects, testing how they could carry gesture, performance, and narrative. The video reanimates…
A short animation piece inspired by chromatropes, a magic lantern slide device and one of the precursors of the moving image. The animation is built from geometric shapes overlaid on one another and set into a slow-rotating motion, creating abstract patterns and shifting forms. Created from a series of experiments conducted by participants of the…
