February 2, 2026George Albert Smith and Laura Eugenia Bayley, Two Clowns, 1906 (digitally recreated kinemacolor; courtesy of Screen Archve South East)
Free screening of films by Brighton & Hove’s Film Pioneers at The Hop 50+ Centre on 3rd February with talk by Dr. Frank Gray
Hove in 1900, alongside London, Paris and New York, was at the forefront of the birth of cinema. This talk will introduce and explore the work of the Hove-based innovators George Albert Smith, Laura Bayley and James Williamson.
From their base at St Ann’s Well Gardens in Hove, Smith & Bayley made films of everyday scenes and comic sketches. Williamson’s first movies were comedies and fantastic trick films. Is it possible for a man to swallow a man?
These filmmakers taught themselves how to combine shots in order to create film sequences. Together they invented film editing – a revolutionary step that would transform the nature of film.
Date and information
Date and time: Tuesday 3rd February at 2-4pm Venue: The Hop 50+ Community Centre, St. John’s Church, Church Road, Hove BN3 2FL (click here for a Google Map link) Price: Free – no booking required – this event is aimed at people over 50
Dr. Frank Gray is an early film historian, a member of Days of Wonder, a curator of film exhibitions for Brighton & Hove Museums, the co-founder of Cinecity (the Brighton Film Festival) and the retired Director of Screen Archive South East (SASE) at the University of Brighton. SASE collects, preserves and shares films made in Brighton & Hove and the region.
Days of Wonder is a three-year screen heritage programme of events and activities that includes a newly commissioned exhibition by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin entitled Play Back Forward, which is on until 12 April 2026 at Hove Museum of Creativity.
Days of Wonder is curated and produced by videoclub and Corridor in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East. Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England and Film Hub South East/BFI.
January 25, 2026Image credit: Su Hui Yu, The Glamorous Boys of Tang, 2018 (film still, courtesy of the artist)
videoclub presents a curated programme of artists’ film and video as part of A Queer Night at the Museum, bringing together UK and international artists whose work explores queerness, gender, the body and identity through personal, political and speculative lenses.
A Queer Night at the Museum is a vibrant late-night event at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery celebrating LGBTQ+ history and creativity, timed with the launch of the Gender Stories and The Sussex Lancers: Tailor-made Leather Lovers exhibitions. For one evening only, Queer Heritage South takes over the museum with film & video, live performances, DJs, dancing, a wearable art fashion show, tours, interactive activities like badge-making and photobooths, and much more. It’s a chance to experience queer heritage and contemporary queer arts in an immersive, party-style cultural fest that brings together community, performance, and museum spaces.
A Queer Night at the Museum is curated and produced by Queer Heritage South, in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums. It celebrates the launch of the Gender Stories exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.
📽️About the screening programme
Across documentary, experimental and narrative forms, the programme foregrounds stories of becoming, displacement, desire and resistance. The films reflect on how gender and sexuality are lived and negotiated in relation to family, cultural memory, migration, history and fantasy – often centring bodies and experiences that challenge dominant norms and fixed categories.
The programme includes intimate autobiographical reflections on transition and self-acceptance; re-imagined histories that reclaim suppressed or marginalised queer narratives; and poetic, sensuous explorations of desire, passion and belonging. Together, the works create a space for multiple queer perspectives to coexist, revealing gender as fluid, contested and continually re-made.
Presented within the vibrant, celebratory context of A Queer Night at the Museum, the screening invites audiences to encounter moving-image works that are reflective, provocative and deeply human – offering moments of connection, recognition and re-imagining.
📼Films in the programme
🎞️Effy Adar, Shea, by NASRA, 2021 A family displaced by greed searches for a new home in a foreign place. As they explore they discover pieces of themselves; old and new. “Shea” celebrates what has always remained in Black/African peoples, an innate sense of home, luxury and interconnectedness.
🎞️Harun Güler, IN LIMBO, 2022 Challenging Middle Eastern conventions and stereotypes, IN LIMBO features intimate vignettes of taboo-breaking personalities from Istanbul, free from clichés and expectations.
🎞️Jun Jieh Wang, Passion, 2017 The fall of passion in the daily life of a lunatic. The story begins with the uncanny arrival of Hal, an astronaut, at an abandoned pier at sunset. Three sailors have wandered to the pier, filling the deserted pier with a flow of desire. Passion refers to both physical, sensual passion and artistic passion. When passion stops, all driving forces subsequently fade. What is strong enough to halt passion then?
🎞️Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner, A Tight, Warm Hug, 2024 I’m safe, I’m loved and I’m Lucy. Lucy Rose, a transgender woman, shares her journey of self-love and empowerment since starting hormone replacement therapy three years ago. The film is part animation, part documentary and part VHS archive footage.
🎞️Su Hui Yu, The Glamorous Boys of Tang, 2018 In 1985, two years before the end of Taiwan’s martial law period, the renowned poet and screenwriter Chui Kang-Chien’s (邱剛健) Tang Chao Chi Li Nan (trans: The Glamorous Boys of Tang) was first screened in Taiwan. Perhaps the filmmakers could not fully present the radicalism and passion of the screenplay due to budget restrictions, censorship, or marketing concerns. More than thirty years later, with new funding and film technology, Su Hui Yu has re-created The Glamorous Boys of Tang to call together the differently gendered bodies and subcultures of Taiwan’s diverse society. The film can be seen as re-narration of the original 1985 version, or the next leg of its journey.
January 24, 2026Double Act – image still from VR experience (courtesy of the artist)
Double Act is a free immersive Virtual Reality (VR) experience that invites audiences to step inside the birth of British cinema at Hove Museum of Creativity this February.
Double Act is a new VR experience created by artist Jess Starns and creative technologist Tom Ward, available to experience between 16 and 22 February at Hove Museum of Creativity. Booking is required – see below for details.
Double Act
Step into Double Act and be guided through a richly imagined world. Visitors meet two pioneering figures of early filmmaking: George Albert Smith, mesmerist, inventor and filmmaker, and Laura Eugenia Bayley, pantomime performer, early film star and filmmaker. Working together in Brighton & Hove at the turn of the 20th century, Smith and Bayley helped shape cinema as a new artform – experimenting with editing, performance, special effects and early colour film at a time when moving images still felt like magic.
Blending historical research, storytelling and immersive technology, Double Act brings to life the places, performances and inventions that positioned Brighton & Hove at the forefront of early film innovation.
Venue, dates, and booking information
Double Act can be experienced at Hove Museum of Creativity between 16 and 22 February (the museum is closed Tuesday and Wednesday).
Booking: Click this link to book a free place. Click “check availability”, then select a date in the calendar and book a time. The VR experience lasts 20 minutes. It is suitable for 13+ years of age.
Double Act is experienced using a Virtual Reality headset, which places you inside a narrated journey through Victorian Brighton & Hove.
As the experience unfolds, you will move through spaces inspired by magic lantern shows, theatres, pleasure gardens and early film studios. Smith and Bayley guide you through their lives and work, revealing how illusion, performance and curiosity led to some of cinema’s earliest breakthroughs — from trick films and close-ups to early experiments with colour.
The VR experience is fully immersive and lasts approximately 20 minutes. A trained member of staff will be on hand to help you put on the headset, explain how the experience works, and support you throughout your visit.
No previous experience of VR is required.
Credits
Double Act has been created by artist Jess Starns and creative technologist Tom Ward.
Thank you to our Community Partners : Little Green Pig whose children and young people produced magic lantern stories as part of the project.
Thank you to Dr. Frank Gray for valuable input into Double Act’s screen and film heritage content.
Double Act has been funded by Arts Council England.
Double Act is presented as part of Days of Wonder, produced and curated by videoclub with Corridor, in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East. Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England and BFI & Film Hub South East.
December 7, 2025Image: Rosie Powell, 2024, Queer Film Trail, Brighton
Call for film & video submissions from LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers for Queer Night Watch Shoreham
videoclub is curating three new Queer Night Watch outdoor film trails, taking place in February and March 2026, with film & video works projected onto buildings around the town of Shoreham (UK). Work will also be shown as part of an exhibition and cinema screening in Worthing (UK) later in 2026.
Exhibited films will be curated from work submitted to us. Submissions will be accepted from LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers from the UK and internationally.
We want to celebrate the diversity of the LGBTQIA+ community – celebrating and showing different viewpoints. However, films do not have to have LGBTQIA+ content. This is a platform to promote LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers who have varied perspectives. Films might have the following content or subjects (these are examples, not guidelines or criteria): Trans awareness, disability and neurodiversity, politics, humour, fantasy, reality, and fiction.
Submissions can be artists’ film, video & moving image, experimental film, short film and docs, Machinima, animation, or digital works, and must be less than 5 minutes in length.
Night Watch is curated and produced by international artists’ film & video agency, videoclub. Produced and curated in partnership with ESTEEM. Supported by Arts Council England.
SUBMISSION DETAILS AND INFORMATION
Deadline for submissions
Notification of selection
Outdoor film trail screenings
Exhibition and cinema screening dates
25 Jan 2026
10 Feb 2026
Feb and Mar 2026
To be confirmed
Criteria for screening submissions:
– Be between 2 and 5 minutes in length.
– Be engaging for viewers who may be passing in the street or watching throughout the programme, for example by being visually stimulating, humorous, narrative, spectacular, fun, surprising and accessible.
– Be appropriate for public / outdoor exhibition (must be suitable for children and adults in public space).
– Work must be in digital format and be high enough in resolution to be shown at scale (1080p / HD).
Fee:
– An inclusive screening fee of £150 GBP will be paid to the filmmaker if work is shown in the programme (film trail, exhibition and cinema screening).
– Fee will be paid via direct bank payment following receipt of an invoice. Successful artists/filmmakers will be sent details.
Requirements:
– If the language of the film is not English, the film must have English subtitles.
– Only one work per submission (add additional submissions to a new form).
– Entrants may submit an unlimited number of works.
– Work must be digitally available.
– Entrants declare that the film submitted is their own and that its public screening rights have not been transferred to third parties.
If you have relevant queries regarding the film event, the entry process or require assistance navigating the entry form, please email: info@videoclub.org.uk
All artists/filmmakers will be informed of the decision to screen in advance of public announcements.
December 6, 2025In Full Colour by Urban Projections on Bolsover Castle; photo by Richard Gardner
Experience the Magic of Bright Winter Nights X Dreamy Place at Bolsover Castle
Join us for an extraordinary evening where art, community, and light converge to illuminate Bolsover Castle in a whole new way. On 27 and 28 November, witness the stunning transformation of this historic landmark as it becomes the canvas for a large-scale projection, created in collaboration with the local young people from Bolsover and renowned artist Rebecca Smith, founder of Urban Projections.
A Night of Community and Creativity
Bright Winter Nights X Dreamy Place is not just an event; it’s a celebration of young voices. Through a series of workshops, young members of the Bolsover community have worked closely with Rebecca Smith to develop digital artworks that reflect their stories, experiences, and creativity. These unique creations, including video, digital collages, and imagery, will be the centerpiece of the evening, brought to life through a mesmerising projection onto the castle’s ancient walls.
About the Artwork
Rebecca Smith, an acclaimed artist known for her innovative approach to digital projection, has guided the community participants in creating this collaborative piece. The artwork, a vivid expression of the community’s voice, will be projection-mapped onto Bolsover Castle, creating an immersive experience that blends history with contemporary digital art.
Be Part of the Experience
This is your chance to see Bolsover Castle like never before, as it becomes a beacon of light and creativity during the Bright Winter Nights X Dreamy Place event. Whether you’re a local or traveling from afar, this is an unmissable opportunity to engage with art that is both personal and spectacular, set against the backdrop of one of Derbyshire’s most iconic locations.
Dreamy Place X Bright Winter Nights is a collaboration between Junction Arts and videoclub. Supported by Arts Council England, English Heritage and Bolsover District Council.
November 3, 2025Play Back Forward – Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin, 2025
Play Back Forward explores the legacy of Brighton and Hove’s early film pioneers, George Albert Smith, Laura Bayley Smith, and James Williamson. The exhibition weaves together archival films, creative responses by young people, and new collaborative works by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin.
Exhibition dates and times: 4 October 2025 – 12 April 2026, open Thursday to Monday, 10am-5pm (closed Tuesday and Wednesday) Address:Hove Museum of Creativity, 19 New Church Road, Hove BN3 4AB
This exhibition reimagines the archive as a time machine, opening up new ways of seeing, sensing, and making. Through responsive displays, interactive devices, and immersive artworks, visitors are invited to bring the archive to life, engaging with the timeless magic of light, shadow, and motion. A space to drift through cinematic time, and an invitation to dream with our eyes open.
Play Back Forward is inspired by the Film and Media collections of Brighton and Hove held at Hove Museum of Creativity and Screen Archive South East. In this exhibition, early film tricks meet contemporary experiments; analogue processes and digital play collide, and past technologies echo visions of the future – creating an evocative space to investigate the city’s rich film heritage.
Press Play – a free activity day for children and adults will take place on 25 October, find out more here. Press Play is a hands-on creativity day for children, families, and adults curious about film and media heritage.
Play Back Forward is part of Days of Wonder, a three-year project exploring the heritage of film and media in Brighton & Hove. Curated and produced by Corridor and videoclub in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East. With support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England, and BFI/Film Hub South East.
November 3, 2025George Albert Smith and Laura Bayley Smith, Two Clowns, 1906 (courtesy of Screen Archive South East)
Where cinema history was made – relive the magic on screen with a special screening in St Ann’s Well Gardens
Step back into the birthplace of British cinema with an unforgettable evening dedicated to the work of pioneering filmmakers George Albert Smith and Laura Bayley Smith. At St Ann’s Well Gardens – the very place where their creative journey began – we’ll bring their extraordinary films back to life on screen.
Guided by film historian Frank Gray, these screenings will showcase the Smiths’ most iconic works, from playful comic sketches to groundbreaking experiments in editing that transformed the very language of cinema. Each film will be introduced with fascinating insights, revealing how this remarkable duo helped shape the future of storytelling on screen.
Film Screenings
📍 The Garden Cafe, St Ann’s Well Gardens, Somerhill Rd, Hove BN3 1RP
📅 8 November & 15 November, 6.30 – 8pm (same programme shown on both evenings)
Don’t miss this rare chance to experience the magic of early cinema in the setting where it all began.
Exhibition
An exhibition of images from films made in St Ann’s Well Gardens by George Albert (Bertie) Smith and Laura Bayley Smith will be showing at The Garden Cafe between 3rd October and 30 November 2025.
Their films from 1897 began with intriguing and playful one-shot scenes of Sussex and comic sketches. Very quickly, they developed a new kind of filmmaking by combining different shots into a single film. This was the beginning of film editing – the ground-breaking creative leap that would forever change the ways in which stories on screen could be told.
As early film pioneers, Bertie and Laura made remarkable works that captivated audiences around the world and established St Ann’s Well as a centre for new media at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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The Film Factory is part of Days of Wonder, a screen heritage programme of events and activities that includes the new exhibition Play Back Forward which is on at Hove Museum of Creativity until 12 April 2026.
The Film Factory is presented by videoclub, Corridor, Screen Archive South East, Brighton & Hove Museums, the Friends of St Ann’s Well Gardens and Frank Gray. Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England, Film Hub South East/BFI and Cinecity (the Brighton Film Festival).
October 12, 2025Image credit (still from video): Lawrence Lek, Play Station, 2017
Both Sides Now 10 – a decade of moving image cultural exchange
Both Sides Now 10 marks a decade of collaboration between videoclub (UK) and Videotage (Hong Kong), presenting a vibrant international programme of moving image works by artists from the UK and Hong Kong. This landmark tenth edition reflects on ten years of creative dialogue, curatorial exchange, and cultural exploration through artists’ film and video.
Presented by videoclub and Dr. Isaac Leung, Both Sides Now 10 features works by: Joseph Chen, Choi Sai Ho, Jake Elwes, Linda Chiu-han Lai, Lawrence Lek, Rachel Maclean, Ellen Pau, Heather Phillipson, Marianna Simnett, and Angela Su.
UK screenings
Fabrica Gallery, Brighton Date and time: Tuesday, 21 October 2025 at 6pm doors, 6:30pm screening Address: 40 Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG Tickets: £4 – book tickets now
Bloc Projects, Sheffield Date and time: Thursday, 23rd October 2025 at 6-7:30pm Address: 71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield S1 4RB Tickets: Suggested donation amount is £4 – £6, though no-one will be turned away from the screening due to lack of funds – book tickets now
Barbican Centre, London Date and time: Thursday, 30th October 2025, 7pm Address: Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS Tickets: £13 / £11 / £6 – book tickets now
Films in the screening programme
Joseph Chen, Copy is Right!, 2016 – 3:27 mins
Choi Sai Ho, The 1960s For Me, 2015 – 5:23 mins
Jake Elwes, Zizi & Me – Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better), 2020 – 4:55 mins
Linda Chiu-han Lai, Doors Medley, 2014 – 7:00 mins
Lawrence Lek, Play Station, 2017 – 7:50 mins
Rachel Maclean, The Lion and the Unicorn, 2012 – 12:00 mins
Ellen Pau, Diversion, 1990 – 5:30 mins
Heather Phillipson, Splashy Phasings, 2013 – 2:39 mins
Marianna Simnett, The Udder, 2014 – 15:30 mins
Angela Su, The Afterlife of Rosy Leavers, 2017 – 14:35 mins
Dreamy Placeis videoclub’s annual event of art and creative tech. Designed to engage curious minds of all ages, and including interactive media, games, dance, and music, the festival harnesses tech and play to explore some serious topics such as surveillance, the environment, philosophy, data, memory, and identities.
In 2025, Dreamy Place lands in Brighton & Hove from 21–26 October, bringing together national and local artists to transform streets, galleries, cafés, and public spaces into sites of wonder.
Highlights you’ll want to check out
A selection of some of the highlights in this year’s programme:
Outdoor Film Trail with Oska Bright Film Festival Walk the city under film projections co-curated with Oska Bright Film Festival, spotlighting creators who are learning-disabled or autistic.
Symoné: “Nullspace Motel” A hybrid performance merging pole, live art, dance and mini videogames – visceral, confounding, emotionally layered.
Both Sides Now 10 A dual-city artists’ film showcase (UK + Hong Kong), curated in partnership with videoclub. Bold, visually striking moving images exploring identity, memory and connection.
Photoworks × POST Photosocialat POST’s new venue Talk and photo event featuring Marcel Top (2025, Poison Data, Kill Algorithms) in conversation with Amin Yousefi — a deep dive into data, surveillance and resistance.
Play Back Forward An immersive archival and collaborative exhibition at Hove Museum, weaving together the heritage of early local cinema (George Albert Smith, Laura Bayley, James Williamson) with new creative responses by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin.
Glitch v.3 Step into a dim, interactive room of shifting visuals and distortions. The projections bend and respond to your movement – part cinema, part glitch ritual.
Families, curious minds, tech enthusiasts, film fans, and art lovers – all are welcome.
You’ll discover corners of Brighton & Hove you rarely see, experience works you can’t find elsewhere, and join in the buzz of collective, shared creation.
Want to see what’s happening?
Your next stop: the What’s On page. Dive in, plan your activities, book what’s needed – then meet us across the city in October. Explore Dreamy Place Brighton 2025
Dreamy Place has been programmed and produced by artists’ film and digital culture agency, videoclub. The programme has been created in partnership with arts, culture, technology and community partners from across Brighton & Hove, the UK, and internationally.
Programme Partners
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton & Hove Museums, Brighton Youth Centre / B.fest, Carousel / Oska Bright Film Festival, Corridor, Fabrica, Junction Arts, Marlborough Productions, Phoenix, Photoworks, POST, Screen Archive South East, South East Dance, Worth Ryder Art Gallery & Art Practice (UC Berkeley).
Funders and Supporters
Arts Council England, Bolsover District Council, English Heritage, Film Hub South East/BFI, Govia Thameslink, Legal & General, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Plus Accounting.
September 21, 2025James Williamson, “The Big Swallow”, 1901
Brighton & Hove’s Wonderland – a talk and heritage film screening with Dr Frank Gray
Date and time: Tuesday, 23rd September 2025 at 2 – 3pm Location: The Hop 50+, Cornerstone Community Centre, St John’s Church, Church Road, Hove BN3 2FL Price: Free, no need to book
The end of the 19th Century was an era of technological wonder. Alongside electricity, the telephone and recorded sound, three vision technologies became very popular – photography, the magic lantern and film. Brighton & Hove emerged as a centre for all of these marvels. The sea-going electric car made its way through the sea, photographic studios lined the seafront, a film studio was established in Hove and lantern and film shows were screened in the theatres, music halls and on the piers. This talk introduces these wonders and looks at those first films to be made and seen in Brighton from 1895.
Dr Frank Gray is an early film historian, a member of Days of Wonder, a curator of film exhibitions for Brighton & Hove Museums, the co-founder of Cinecity (the Brighton Film Festival) and the retired Director of Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton. It collects, preserves and shares films made in Brighton & Hove and the region.
Days of Wonder is a screen heritage programme of events and activities that includes a newly commissioned exhibition by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin entitled Play Back Forward, which is on from 4 October 2025 to 12 April 2026 at Hove Museum of Creativity.
Days of Wonder is presented by Brighton & Hove Museums, Corridor, Screen Archive South East and videoclub. Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England and Film Hub South East/BFI.
Days of Wonder: Press Play is a hands-on creativity day for children, families, and adults curious about film and media heritage.
Explore new ways to play with and reimagine the film archive through optical tricks, experimental animation, zine-making and more. Activities are inspired by the Play Back Forward exhibition at Hove Museum, including workshops led by the exhibiting artists, Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin.
Event time: 11am – 5pm, drop-in workshops Price: Free Address: Hove Museum of Creativity, 19 New Church Road, Hove BN3 4AB
Alongside creative workshops, visitors can explore the Play Back Forward exhibition – an imaginative journey through Brighton & Hove’s rich film heritage. Featuring archival footage, artworks by young people, and new installations by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin, the exhibition invites audiences to engage with early film technologies through contemporary lenses. Through hands-on activities and reflective responses, participants are encouraged to interact with the exhibition’s playful approach to archive, light, and motion – reinterpreting the past while experimenting with the possibilities of filmmaking today.
Image credit: Zoe Montgomery
Days of Wonder is a three-year project exploring the heritage of film and media in Brighton & Hove. Curated and produced by Corridor and videoclub in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East. With support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England, and BFI/Film Hub South East.
Watch the Selected 15 programme online between 1-7 August 2025
The screening programme was available to watch between 1-7 August – above is the trailer for the programme.
Selected 15 brings together some of the most vital new voices in moving image. Curated in collaboration with the artists shortlisted for the 2024 Film London Jarman Award – Larry Achiampong, Maeve Brennan, Melanie Manchot, Rosalind Nashashibi, Sin Wai Kin, and Maryam Tafakory – the programme showcases emerging talent shaping the future of artists’ film in the UK.
Each Jarman Award artist was invited to nominate an earlier-career moving image artist whose work resonates with them. From these nominations, videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) have curated Selected 15 – a powerful collection of short films exploring themes of identity, technology, memory, and the body.
The artists in this year’s programme are: Samara Addai, Fergus Carmichael, Teef Chan, Nia Fekri, Niki Kohandel, Jazmin Morris, Kadeem Oak, and Liberty Smith.
For 15 years, Selected has offered a unique platform for discovering emerging talent, with a focus on artists pushing the boundaries of what moving image can be.
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Programme of works
Samara Addai, Mood to Make Love, 3:26 mins, 2024
Teef Chan, Under The Trees of Hampstead Heath, I ate Fei Larm Char Rice, 2:28 mins, 2022
Produced by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN). Supported by Arts Council England and Film London.
videoclub is an artists’ moving image platform showing artists’ work across the UK and internationally. We support artists through curated programmes, engaging the public through screenings, exhibitions, talks, residencies, and commissions. www.videoclub.org.uk
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) supports London-based artists working in moving image, working in partnership to deliver a comprehensive programme including production award schemes, regular screenings, talks and events, as well as the prestigious annual Film London Jarman Award. www.filmlondon.org.uk/flamin
Rachel Maclean, The Lion & the Unicorn, 2012 (video still)
Both Sides Now 10 – a decade of moving image cultural exchange
Both Sides Now 10 marks a decade of collaboration between videoclub (UK) and Videotage (Hong Kong), presenting a vibrant international programme of moving image works by artists from the UK and Hong Kong. This landmark tenth edition reflects on ten years of creative dialogue, curatorial exchange, and cultural exploration through artists’ film and video.
Presented by videoclub and Dr. Isaac Leung, Both Sides Now 10 features works by: Joseph Chen, Choi Sai Ho, Jake Elwes, Linda Chiu-han Lai, Lawrence Lek, Rachel Maclean, Ellen Pau, Heather Phillipson, Marianna Simnett, and Angela Su.
Exhibition at Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley
The Both Sides Now 10 exhibition will be on view at Worth Ryder Art Gallery, located in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. Find out more by clicking here.
Exhibition dates are: 4th – 30th September 2025. An opening reception will take place on 3rd September from 4–6pm (Pacific Time) at the gallery.
Screenings in UK, USA and Hong Kong
Screenings take place in the USA during September and in the UK and Hong Kong during October 2025.
USA screenings
Artists Television Access, San Francisco Date and time: Friday, 5th September 2025 – 7pm doors, 7:30pm screening Address: 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Tickets: Free entry – find out more
Boathouse Microcinema, Portland Date and time: Sunday, 7th September 2025 at 7:30pm doors, 8pm screening Address: 822 N River Street, Portland, Oregon 97227 Tickets: Free entry, no need to book – find out more
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle Date and time: Thursday, 11th September 2025 at 7pm Address: 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 Tickets: $15 general / $10 concession / $7 NWFF members – book tickets now
UK screenings
Fabrica Gallery, Brighton Date and time: Tuesday, 21 October 2025 at 6pm doors, 6:30pm screening Address: 40 Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG Tickets: £4 – book tickets now
Bloc Projects, Sheffield Date and time: Thursday, 23rd October 2025 at 6-7:30pm Address: 71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield S1 4RB Tickets: Suggested donation amount is £4 – £6, though no-one will be turned away from the screening due to lack of funds – book tickets now
Barbican Centre, London Date and time: Thursday, 30th October 2025, 7pm Address: Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS Tickets: £13 – book tickets now
Hong Kong screening
Current Plans, Hong Kong Date and time: Friday 24 October 2025, 7pm Address: 3F, Remex Centre, 12 Heung Yip Rd, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
Films in the exhibition and screenings
Joseph Chen, Copy is Right!, 2016 – 3:27 mins
Choi Sai Ho, The 1960s For Me, 2015 – 5:23 mins
Jake Elwes, Zizi & Me – Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better), 2020 – 4:55 mins
Linda Chiu-han Lai, Doors Medley, 2014 – 7:00 mins
Lawrence Lek, Play Station, 2017 – 7:50 mins
Rachel Maclean, The Lion and the Unicorn, 2012 – 12:00 mins
Ellen Pau, Diversion, 1990 – 5:30 mins
Heather Phillipson, Splashy Phasings, 2013 – 2:39 mins
Marianna Simnett, The Udder, 2014 – 15:30 mins
Angela Su, The Afterlife of Rosy Leavers, 2017 – 14:35 mins
July 18, 2025Resident artists, August 2025 from left to right: Lazarus Chan, Leah Clements, Elora Kadir
For the 11th Vital Capacities residency, we partner with Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network and Wysing Arts Centre to work with artists from the UK and Hong Kong. From 1 August, artists Chan Long Fung, Lazarus, Leah Clements, and Elora Kadir will join Vital Capacities to undertake research and develop new work. Over the month-long online residency, the artists will explore new ideas, connect across disciplines and geographies, and experiment within their digital studio spaces.
The artists for August 2025’s residency are:
Chan Long Fung, Lazarus, a new media artist from Hong Kong, fuses science, technology, and art to create visual experiences through sound, generative art, and data visualisations. His art interrogates the essence of natural and cultural phenomena, drawing on deep technological insight. During the residency, he will continue developing his series Stochastic Camera, delving into AI and the nature of creativity, consciousness, and automated seeing.
Leah Clements is an artist from and based in East London. Her work thinks about transcendence, affect, illness, and the other-worldly. It spans film, photography, performance, installation, sound, and other media. For this residency, she will be developing a new moving image work that draws on symbols from across time – ancient, medieval, and modern – reflecting her ongoing interest in moments of epiphany, transformation, and meaning-making through the lens of chronic illness and collective experience.
Elora Kadir is an artist based in London whose practice spans installation, drawing, photography, video, and found objects. Her work explores lived experiences of disability and how these intersect with the outside world – whether through navigating physical spaces, engaging with bureaucratic systems, or encountering subtle tensions and mismatches within an able-bodied society. During the residency, she will explore those small moments of friction where body and environment fail to align, experimenting with materials and language to make these dissonances visible.
An online exhibition showcasing work developed during the residency will be presented on vitalcapacities.com in September 2025.
Residency launches on 1 August 2025 – find out what the artists are up to by following their progress at: vitalcapacities.com and on Instagram: @vitalcapacities
Vital Capacities is an accessible, purpose-built digital residency space, that supports artists’ practice while engaging audiences with their work.
Vital Capacities has been created by videoclub in consultation with artists, digital inclusion specialist Sarah Pickthall and website designer Oli Pyle.
Vital Capacities 2025 residency is supported by Arts Council England.
May 5, 2025Image (film still): Fergus Carmichael, Rhadinace, 2024 – courtesy of the artist
A touring programme of new artists’ film and video – nominated by the 2024 Jarman Award shortlist
Selected 15 brings together some of the most vital new voices in moving image. Curated in collaboration with the artists shortlisted for the 2024 Film London Jarman Award – Larry Achiampong, Maeve Brennan, Melanie Manchot, Rosalind Nashashibi, Sin Wai Kin, and Maryam Tafakory – the programme showcases emerging talent shaping the future of artists’ film in the UK.
Each Jarman Award artist was invited to nominate an earlier-career moving image artist whose work resonates with them. From these nominations, videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) have curated Selected 15 – a powerful collection of short films exploring themes of identity, technology, memory, and the body.
The artists in this year’s programme are: Samara Addai, Fergus Carmichael, Teef Chan, Nia Fekri, Niki Kohandel, Jazmin Morris, Kadeem Oak, and Liberty Smith.
Selected 15 trailer, click the play button to view
For 15 years, Selected has offered a unique platform for discovering emerging talent, with a focus on artists pushing the boundaries of what moving image can be.
Join us on tour to experience a new wave of artists’ film – provocative, poetic, and politically urgent. See below for screening venues and dates.
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Programme of works
Samara Addai, Mood to Make Love, 3:26 mins, 2024
Teef Chan, Under The Trees of Hampstead Heath, I ate Fei Larm Char Rice, 2:28 mins, 2022
Date and time: Thursday, 5 June 2025 at 6pm doors and bar, 6:30pm screening Price: £3 + £1 booking fee Address and info: Fabrica, 40 Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG / www.fabrica.org.uk / 01273 778646 Tickets:BOOK A TICKET
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CCA Glasgow
Date and time: Thursday, 12 June 2025 at 6pm doors, 6:30pm screening In-conversation: Selected 15 artist Fergus Carmichael (dir. Rhadinace) will be in-conversation with artist Emmie McLuskey following the screening Price: FREE Address and info: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD / www.cca-glasgow.com / 0141 352 4900 Tickets: FREE – No need to book
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Somerset House, London
Rolling screening programme in The Pits: Friday, 13 June (4:30-8:30pm) and Saturday, 14 June (2-7pm) at Somerset House as part of Upgrade Yourself Festival Panel discussion in the Lancaster Room with artists Samara Addai and Jazmin Morris: Saturday, 14th June at 4:45-5:45pm as part of Upgrade Yourself Festival Price: FREE – BOOKING LINK TO BE ADDED Address and info: Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA / www.somersethouse.org.uk / 020 7845 4600 Tickets:Book tickets for Upgrade Yourself Festival
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Nottingham Contemporary
Date and time: Wednesday, 25 June 2025 at 6pm doors and bar, 6:30pm screening Price: FREE Address and info: Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB / www.nottinghamcontemporary.org / 0115 948 9750 Tickets: FREE – BOOK A TICKET
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CAST, Cornwall
Date and time: Saturday, 5th July, 10am – 8pm Price: FREE Address and info: Cornubian Arts & Science Trust (CAST), 3 Penrose Road, Helston, Cornwall TR13 8TP / castcornwall.art Tickets: FREE – No need to book – Find out more about the screening at CAST
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Spike Island, Bristol
Date and time: Thursday, 10 July 2025, 6-7pm Price: FREE Address and info: Associates Space, Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Rd, Bristol BS1 6UX / spikeisland.org.uk Tickets: £3 – book a ticket
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Towner Eastbourne in partnership with Devonshire Collective’s Volta artists’ moving image forum
Date and time: Saturday, 19 July 2025, 11am – 1pm Price: FREE Address and info: Towner Eastbourne, Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne BN21 4JJ / www.townereastbourne.org.uk / 01323 434670 Tickets: FREE – BOOK A TICKET
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Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Date and time: Thursday, 24 July 2025, 6pm doors and bar, 6:30pm screening (Baltic Kitchen open till 6:30pm) Price: £6 / £4 Address and info: Cinema 1, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, S. Shore Rd, Gateshead NE8 3BA / baltic.art Tickets:BOOK TICKETS
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Produced by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN). Supported by Arts Council England and Film London.
videoclub is an artists’ moving image platform showing artists’ work across the UK and internationally. We support artists through curated programmes, engaging the public through screenings, exhibitions, talks, residencies, and commissions. www.videoclub.org.uk
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) supports London-based artists working in moving image, working in partnership to deliver a comprehensive programme including production award schemes, regular screenings, talks and events, as well as the prestigious annual Film London Jarman Award. www.filmlondon.org.uk/flamin
