We are delighted to be part of Peer to Peer: UK/HK, a digital programme and platform encouraging meaningful cultural exchange and forging enduring partnerships between the UK and Hong Kong’s visual arts sectors. The programme coincides with Both Sides Now 6, our annual collaboration with Videotage in Hong Kong, which includes a residency exchange between…
Our second residency programme on Vital Capacities brings together artists from the UK, Canada and Hong Kong, taking place between 2 Nov and 10 Dec 2020. Artists will be exploring ideas across the period, sharing work with audiences. The artists are: Jaene F. Castrillon Jaene F. Castrillon is an interdisciplinary film-based artist residing in Toronto,…
The four artists who are participating in our first residency programme have been sharing their thoughts on participating, what they’re doing and their ideas on the work they make. Interviews can be seen in full on the Vital Capacities website, but here’s a glimpse in response to the question – “Can you say a little about…
Earlier in 2020, we were invited by the Strangelove team to be one of five selectors, including Abigail Addison, James Collie, Chris Meigh-Andrews and the Strangelove Team, for their international open call programme. The programme, entitled ISOLATION / DIVERSITY / CLIMATE, is presented in 5 screening rooms online. Visitors and audiences can review, discuss and comment on…
Our first exhibition on Vital Capacities, PRESENTS, is curated by resident artist, Romily Alice Walden and COVEN collective member, Frances Breden, and includes a programme of film and video. PRESENTS opened on 7 Sept 2020. Go to the PRESENTS exhibition now, or read more below about the show and its content. PRESENTS is a screening of short video works…
Over the past three months we’ve been working with four artists – Seecum Cheung, Joey Holder, Daniel Locke and Romily Alice Walden to create a new purpose-built digital residency space, Vital Capacities. The aim of the project is to provide artists with time and space to develop ideas, while inviting audiences to engage with and…
videoclub is proud to present a collection of moving image works from the 2020 graduating artists from Wimbledon College of Arts’ Fine Art: Print & Time-Based Media BA (Hons) programme. Work by 11 students from the course will be shown from 4th till end of August on videoclub’s website. We wanted to showcase this year’s students’…
Watch the Selected X programme of films individually. The film programme can be watched as a curated programme on the main page, or as individual films here. There is also the option of watching Jennifer Martin’s film, TEETH with audio description – see below. Artists for the 10th year of Selected are: Ayo Akingbade, Beverley Bennett, Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley, Rabz Lansiquot, Jennifer Martin, Sharif…
Yu Araki’s Bivalvia Act I showing as part of God’s House Tower’s Beside the Sea: Summer Screenings programme. We were invited to nominate a film by God’s House Tower in Southampton as part of their Beside the Sea: Summer Screenings programme. Throughout July, the Summer Screenings programme will explore how artists and filmmakers have been…
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…
