Interviews with some of the artists in Selected X appear below. If you’d like to watch the film programme, click here. Beverley Bennett‘s interview (Bennett’s film Amine is in Selected X): What was it that inspired your film? In 2016 the pioneering writer Claudia Rankine pronounced that ‘the invisibility of black women was astonishing.’ That…
The Selected programme was established 10 years ago with the aims of supporting artist filmmakers to gain greater visibility and to bring new, diverse moving image work to audiences. Each year the artists who are shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award nominate artists who are earlier in their careers and from those nominations a…
Thanks to support from Arts Council England, we now have the resources to support four artists to participate in building a digital residency space with us. Over the next five months we’re going to develop an accessible, purpose-built digital residency platform, collaborating with four artists to create a space that supports their practice, while engaging…
Over the past three rounds of New Creatives, videoclub’s director, Jamie Wyld, has been working as Development Executive on the New Creatives programme with Screen South, to review applications, interview applicants and provide development support. New Creatives is a vital programme that is supporting young, talented artists who want to explore and experiment, and develop…
It’s 10 years since we did the first Selected programme, an idea conjured by Ben Rivers and myself as we talked about ideas for how to curate a new videoclub programme. Simply, Ben had been shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award (2010), and he suggested we ask the other shortlisted artists to nominate artists…
In collaboration with Platform Asia, we are presenting Displaced Belongings online 8 May till 30 May 20. The programme can be watched at any time over this period, just click here to watch the films. Displaced Belongings presents six recent film and video works by Asian artists that explore the complex nature of identity. Artists respond to…
Platform Asia presents Displaced Belongings – a touring screening programme across the UK in association with videoclub. Displaced Belongings presents six recent film and video works by Asian artists that explore the complex nature of identity. Artists respond to personal and global experiences, such as war and memory, ejection from home and expression of sexual identity…
Platform Asia presents Alternative Acts at Backlit Gallery, Nottingham in association with videoclub. Alternative Acts explores ways in which artists attempt to explore their culture and identity via issues such as gender, class and race. Through individual approaches, artists consider what identities represent – showing how identity can be affected by circumstances, including censorship, racism, political…
Both Sides Now 5 looks at the way in which artist filmmakers are exploring Queer culture, using various film and video techniques, to explore aspects of Queer life in Hong Kong, China and the UK. A special screening of the Both Sides Now 5: Queer programme takes place at Strangelove Time-based Media Festival online. Dates…
Set in the stunning surroundings of Aberdeen, Hong Kong, Ovolo Southside Hotel is the host of Asia’s very first video art fair, FLAME HK – set up and delivered by Formosa Art Fair (Taiwan). Established as a roving fair, taking place in cities across Asia, Hong Kong is the fair’s first stop. FLAME HK took…
