Paid opportunity: Event stewards and exhibition assistants wanted, deadline: 25 Sept

September 15, 2026

Paid job opportunity: Event Stewards & Exhibition Assistants – deadline to apply 25 Sept

Dreamy Place is looking for friendly and reliable Event Stewards and Exhibition Assistants to support our 2026 festival in Brighton between 22 and 25 October 2026.

You will help with front-of-house activities at events, exhibitions and installations, providing visitors with information and contributing to a safe, welcoming and enjoyable audience experience. You will be fully briefed on the artworks, audience management and on-site safety, enabling you to speak enthusiastically about the programme and help visitors get more from their experience.

About the programme

Dreamy Place 2026 includes:

  • Two outdoor installations in public squares, including a light and sound installation and an immersive sound installation
  • A night-time outdoor film trail, with films projected onto buildings
  • An ecological exhibition in a gallery space
  • A range of other events and activities

Find out more: dreamy-place.com (programme launches on 17 September – you can see past programmes at this link now)

Roles and responsibilities

  • Welcome visitors and provide information about the artworks, exhibitions and Dreamy Place
  • Support front-of-house activities and the smooth running of events
  • Help create a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment
  • Support the production team with the safe delivery and coordination of activities
  • Assist with gathering audience monitoring information for evaluation

Who we’re looking for

You should be:

  • Friendly, approachable and comfortable engaging with members of the public
  • Enthusiastic about sharing information about artistic work
  • Reliable and punctual
  • Able to attend all the shifts you agree to undertake

Applicants need to be 18 or over.

Dates and hours

Freelance work is available flexibly from 22–25 October 2026, at various times between 10am and 10pm.

Pay

£12.71 per hour (Living Wage hourly rate).

This is a freelance position. You will be responsible for submitting an invoice for the hours worked and will not be paid through PAYE.

Full briefings on the artworks, audience management and on-site safety will be provided before each shift.

Person Specification

We are looking for people who are:

  • Friendly, approachable and confident engaging with the public
  • Interested in arts, culture and events
  • Able to communicate information clearly and enthusiastically
  • Reliable, punctual and able to attend agreed shifts
  • Comfortable working as part of a team and following instructions
  • Calm, responsible and attentive to visitor safety
  • Committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment
  • Willing to assist with practical tasks and audience monitoring

Previous experience of stewarding, customer service, exhibitions or events is helpful but not essential, as briefings will be provided.

How to apply

To apply, please send:

– A short description of any relevant experience and your response to the points in the Person Specification – to say how you meet the requirements of this role (max 500 words)

– Your CV, which shows any relevant experience in relation to this role (any work you’ve done in a customer service role or working with the public, for example)

Email these to: info@videoclub.org.uk by 25 September 2026 at 11:59pm 

Interviews on 28 September 2026.

Applicants must be 18 or over.

About Dreamy Place

Dreamy Place returns to Brighton from 23–25 October 2026 with a city-wide programme of art, creative technology and moving image. This year’s festival explores nature and our changing relationship with the natural world, bringing together artists working with scientists, ecologists and environmental professionals, and using creative technologies to reveal, interpret and reimagine the environments around us.

Produced by artists’ film and digital culture agency videoclub, Dreamy Place presents outdoor installations, exhibitions, film trails, sound and dance works, talks, performances and workshops across Brighton, with many events free to experience. https://dreamy-place.com

videoclub is 20!

September 1, 2026

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, residencies, workshops, outdoor programmes and screenings. It’s been an extraordinary journey.

Huge thanks go to all the funders, partners and collaborators we’ve worked with and been supported by. Thanks to our original co-founders Ben Rivers and Laura Mousavi-Zadeh for helping establish videoclub with our Director, Jamie Wyld, 20 years ago. And enormous thanks to Moritz Cheung, videoclub’s curator since 2014, for his support in helping videoclub to grow and be more ambitious and for joining this wild ride!

This year we’re celebrating with:
– the 16th Selected programme in collaboration with Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network – showcasing some of the best work by early career moving  image artists from the UK.
– the 12th Vital Capacities residency programme, supporting and promoting disabled artists’ practice and creative development.
– the 4th Brighton-based Dreamy Place festival – engaging audiences with moving image, art and technology across Brighton & Hove. Follow Dreamy Place on Instagram for updates soon!

We hope you’ll be able to join us at some of our events across 2026 to help us celebrate 20 years of videoclub! 🎂

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Meet the artists: Vital Capacities residency, August 2026

July 29, 2026

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 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 2026’s residency are:

Sophie Hoyle is an artist and writer who relates personal experiences of being queer, non-binary, disabled and part of the SWANA (South-West Asian and North African) diaspora to wider forms of structural violence. From lived experience of psychiatric conditions and trauma (or PTSD), they began to explore the politics of healthcare inequalities and collective and intergenerational trauma. 

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cannibal licks tricks stuffed sticky body undone untouched mutate to escape by the skin of our teeth

Mariette Moor‘s interdisciplinary practice holds drawing, clay and writing at its core, operating as modes of storytelling that tease at the uncanny peripheries of horror and their relationship to boundaries, absence, and control. I imagine ‘world fracturing’ as a methodology to mix the mundane, fantastical and paranoid into psychological scenes, questioning the nature of reality and sanity. Tenderness and violence coexist in speculative bodies and spaces which confront the complexities of intimacy.

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Helen Stratford’s practice spans architecture, fine art, writing and research. Through performative workshops, site-specific interventions, video, speculative writing, and discursive platforms, they propose ways of challenging spatial prejudices produced at the intersections of social, cultural, economic and political relations. Her work has been exhibited at V&A, Oslo Architecture Triennale, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bloc Projects, Kettle’s Yard and Wysing Arts Centre. Led by her lived experience of chronic pain and personal health histories, she is currently researching crip time (en)counters with public space, ecology, architecture, and productivity. Helen is also Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.

An online exhibition showcasing work developed during the residency will be presented on vitalcapacities.com, launching on 24 September 2026.

Residency launches on 1 August 2026 – 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 2026 residency is supported by Arts Council England.

Selected 16, UK tour – 30 July-06 October

July 29, 2026

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 early-career artists working today, nominated by artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2025 – Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah, Morgan Quaintance, George Finlay Ramsay and Hope Strickland. Curated by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), this compelling programme tours leading arts venues across the UK.

Bringing together nine distinctive artists’ films, Selected 16 offers a snapshot of emerging artists’ moving image practice today. Across documentary, essay film, experimental cinema and analogue filmmaking, the programme explores themes of memory, identity, ecology, migration, community and belonging.

Selected 16 artists are: Chanthila Phaophanit, Che Applewhaite, Chiemi Shimada, Jack Guariento, Leena Habiballa, Rhiana Bonterre, Rosanna Lee and Viviana Almas. Find out more about the artists and films in the programme by clicking here.

Films in the programme 

  • Chanthila Phaophanit, Beneath the Shell of Sound, 2026, 8:12 mins
  • Che Applewhaite, I AM THE WORLD, 2022, 9:00 mins
  • Chiemi Shimada, mmm, 2023, 7:06 mins
  • Jack Guariento, Bellsmyre Caledonia, 2023, 6:34 mins
  • Leena Habiballa, Dead as a Dodo, 2022, 5:18 mins
  • Rhiana Bonterre, A Story, An Invocation, An Opening, 2025, 7:42 mins
  • Rosanna Lee, Heart of the Lion 赤子獅心, 2026, 19 mins
  • Viviana Almas, In Silence Seeds Weep, 2025, 1:48 mins
  • Viviana Almas, Solus, 2025, 2:46 mins

Touring programme and ticket booking

Barbican Centre, London

Date and time: 30 July at 6:30pm
Price: £15.50 (£14 ticket + £1.50 booking fee)
Address: Cinema 3, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
Tickets: SOLD OUT

This screening includes a post-screening discussion between Selected 16 artist, Rosanna Lee and Jarman Award (2025) winning artist, Morgan Quaintance

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Broadway Cinema, Nottingham – in partnership with Near Now and Nottingham Contemporary

Date and time: Wednesday 2 September, 6:30pm
Price: £5
Address: 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL
Tickets: BOOK TICKETS

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Watershed, Bristol – in partnership with Spike Island

Date and time: Thursday 3 September, 6:30pm
Price: £5
Address: 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX
Tickets: BOOK TICKETS

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g39, Cardiff

Date and time: Saturday 12 September, 6pm doors, 6:30pm screening
Price: FREE
Address: g39, Oxford St, Cardiff CF24 3DT
Tickets: No booking needed, find out more

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Offline, Glasgow

Date and time: Friday 18 September, 6:30pm
Price: Pay what you can
Address: 108 Niddrie Road, Glasgow G42 8PR
Tickets: Pay what you can – BOOK TICKETS

This screening includes a post-screening in-conversation with Selected 16 artist, Jack Guariento

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Towner Eastbourne

Date and time: Saturday 26 September, 11am-1pm
Price: Pay what you can
Address: Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4JJ
Tickets: BOOK TICKETS

This screening includes a post-screening in-conversation with Selected 16 artist, Chiemi Shimada and Jarman Award winning artist, Morgan Quaintance

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Fabrica Gallery, Brighton

Date and time: Thursday 1 October, 6:30pm
Price: £5.50 + £1 booking fee
Address: 40 Duke St, Brighton BN1 1AG
Tickets: BOOK TICKETS

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CAST, Falmouth, Cornwall

Date and time: Tuesday 6 October, 6pm
Price: Free
Address: Lecture Theatre One, Falmouth University, Woodlane, TR11 4RH
Tickets: BOOK A FREE PLACE

This screening includes a post-screening in-conversation with Selected 16 artist, Viviana Almas and CAST curator, Cat Bagg

Selected 16 is produced by videoclub and FLAMIN. Supported by Arts Council England and Film London.

videoclub is an artists’ moving image and digital culture agency showing artists’ work across the UK and internationally. For 20 years, videoclub has supported artists through curated programmes, engaging audiences through screenings, exhibitions, talks, residencies, and commissions.

www.videoclub.org.uk / Instagram: @videoclub_uk

Film London, with funding from Arts Council England (ACE), is a major supporter of artists’ filmmaking, through the Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN). Through unique commissioning funds, FLAMIN has commissioned over 200 productions, and supported the careers of countless other artists with programmes of one-to-one advice sessions, residencies and workshops.

www.filmlondon.org.uk/FLAMIN / Instagram: @film_london

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A Cinematic Portal – Play Back Forward (2025-2026)

July 27, 2026

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 Back Forward was presented at Hove Museum of Creativity from October 2025 to April 2026, bringing together archival films, new commissions, and interactive works exploring the history and future of film.

09mn12sec
Single-channel video installation
4K video, Super 8 film digitised to HD video (black and white, silent)

Created by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin.

Films repurposed in this video work courtesy of Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton.

The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)

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Portals – Play Back Forward (2025-2026)

July 27, 2026

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 present.

Originally presented as a three-channel video installation, Portals was part of Play Back Forward, an exhibition held at Hove Museum from October 2025 to April 2026. The work reflects on the material traces of cinema: light, movement, sound, and transmission, and the ways these elements continue to shape our experience of moving images across time.

Super 8 digitised to HD, 4K video, colour, sound

Created by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin.

Soundtrack by: The Wisps

Films repurposed in this video work courtesy of Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton and BFI National Archive:

George Albert Smith and Laura Bayley:
Hanging Out the Clothes; or Master, Mistress and Maid 1 (1897)
The Miller and the Sweep (1897)
The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)
The House that Jack Built (1900)
Let Me Dream Again (1900)
Grandma’s Reading Glass (1900)
As Seen Through a Telescope (1900)
Mary Jane’s Mishap (1903)

James Williamson:
A Big Swallow (1901)
Stop Thief! (1901)
Fire! [35mm tinted] (1901)
Magic Extinguisher (1901)

Edison Co.:
Serpentine Dances (1894-5)

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Vision Chamber – Play Back Forward (2025-2026)

July 27, 2026

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 to photography and cinema, projecting an inverted image of the outside world through a small aperture. In Vision Chamber, past and present fold into one another as archival footage and new recordings intertwine, with gestures, movements, and objects echoing across distant times and spaces, drifting in and out of sync.

The work was presented as part of Play Back Forward, an exhibition held at Hove Museum from October 2025 to April 2026.

04mn42sec

4K video (colour), film digitised to HD video (black and white, silent)

A video created by artists Annis Joslin in collaboration with Chahine Fellahi

Films repurposed in this video work courtesy of Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton and BFI National Archive:

George Albert Smith and Laura Bayley:
Hanging Out the Clothes; or Master, Mistress and Maid 1 (1897)
The Miller and the Sweep (1897)

James Williamson:
Fire! (1901) [35mm tinted]
Stop Thief! (1901)
Flying the Foam and some Fancy Diving (1906)

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Serpentine Trails – Play Back Forward (2025 – 2026)

July 27, 2026

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, an exhibition held at Hove Museum from October 2025 to April 2026. Alongside the video, a series of prints generated through a custom algorithm traced points of movement within the performance and translated them into graphic forms.

Together, these works form a shifting cartography of dance: a visual mapping of motion that both preserves and transforms the fleeting gestures of Loie Fuller’s original performance.

02mns40sec
Single-channel video installation (SD video black and white, silent)

A video created by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin
Film: Serpentine Dances (1894-5), Edison Co. repurposed in this video work.
Courtesy of Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton and BFI National Archive.

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Objects from the Brighton & Hove museums film and media collection – Stereoscopic cards, 2025

July 27, 2026

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 (October 2025 – April 2026), where visitors could view the images through a stereoscopic viewer, recreating an early method of experiencing photographic images in depth.

VIEW FULL SET OF STEREOSCOPE CARDS HERE

Objects from Brighton & Hove museum film and collectionDownload

Conception and design: Chahine Fellahi
Photographs by: Zoe Montgomery
Supported by: Louise Conway
Access to collection provided by Alexia Lazou

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Objects from the Brighton & Hove museums film & media collection – Super 8 film, 2025

July 27, 2026

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 presence as early objects of image-making.

02mn28sec
Super 8 digitised to HD video
(black and white, silent)

Conception and editing: Chahine Fellahi
Camera: Zoe Montgomery
Supported by: Louise Conway
With thanks to Annis Joslin and Alexia Lazou for supporting with access to the collection.

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Behind the Scenes – Wonder Club (2023 – 2025)

July 27, 2026

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 collective making. The photographs capture moments from across the programme, documenting the activities, experiments, and works developed by participants over the course of the workshops.

A programme led by: Chahine Fellahi
Programme coordinator: Louise Conway
Workshop support and photographs by: Zoë Montgomery


This programme was part of Days of Wonder, a three-year programme exploring film and media heritage in Brighton, curated and produced by videoclub and Corridor Projects in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East.

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Kinemacolor experiments – Wonder Club 2025

July 27, 2026

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 technique that layers red and green filtered images to reconstruct natural colour — participants produced new images that revisit early cinematic colour experimentation through contemporary, collective processes.

Conception and design: Chahine Fellahi
Supported by: Louise Conway & Zoe Montgomery
In collaboration with Wonder Club participants: Evie, Peggy, Lenny, Sulayman, Sylvie, Willow, Alex, Francesca, Ezra

This work was created as part of Wonder Club, a creative programme of workshops for young people at Hove Museum of Creativity led by artist Chahine Fellahi, exploring early film through experimental approaches to photography, film, and image-making. The programme was part of Days of Wonder, a three-year programme exploring film and media heritage in Brighton, curated and produced by videoclub and Corridor Projects in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East.

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Objects from the film archive – Wonder Club 2024

July 27, 2026

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 objects and actions drawn from the films, recasting them into a different space and time. Accompanying this visual journey is a soundtrack made from digitally processed ASMR-style recordings that capture the tactile sounds of objects being handled and interacted with.

02mn02sec
HD video, colour, sound

Conception and editing: Annis Joslin
Supported by: Louise Conway, Chahine Fellahi & Zoe Montgomery
In collaboration with Wonder Club participants: Amber, Charlotte, Evie, Michael, Minty, Peggy, Rosana, Sophie

This work was created as part of Wonder Club, a creative programme of workshops for young people at Hove Museum of Creativity led by artist Chahine Fellahi, exploring early film through experimental approaches to photography, film, and image-making. The programme was part of Days of Wonder, a three-year programme exploring film and media heritage in Brighton, curated and produced by videoclub and Corridor Projects in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East.

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Chromatropes – Wonder Club 2025

July 27, 2026

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 Wonder Club programme, the images were later animated and reworked through analogue video processes. The result is a hypnotic loop in which still images are activated by motion and signal interference.

02mn15sec
SD video, colour, sound

Conception and editing: Chahine Fellahi
Music: The Wisps
Supported by: Louise Conway
In collaboration with Wonder club participants: Alexis, Daisy, Francisco, Pilar, Peggy, Rosa and Toby


This work was created as part of Wonder Club, a creative programme of workshops for young people at Hove Museum of Creativity led by artist Chahine Fellahi, exploring early film through experimental approaches to photography, film, and image-making. The programme was part of Days of Wonder, a three-year programme exploring film and media heritage in Brighton, curated and produced by videoclub and Corridor Projects in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East.

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A Cinematic Frankenstein – Wonder Club, 2024

July 27, 2026

A short experimental film created with Wonder Club participants through direct interventions on 16mm film found footage. Working with fragments of existing images, participants explored how meaning and narrative emerge through montage, repetition, and transformation, by intervening on the film through scratching, drawing, painting, and hand re-editing. Inspired loosely by the story of Frankenstein, the film imagines a kind of cinematic monster assembled from disconnected image fragments. Through cutting, layering, and manipulating the film surface itself, participants stitched together and reworked existing scenes into new sequences in order to generate a new narrative.

02mn36sec
16mm digitised to HD video, colour, sound

Conception and editing: Chahine Fellahi
Supported by: Louise Conway & Zoe Montgomery
Digitised by: South East Screen Archive
In collaboration with Wonder Club participants: Evie, Peggy, Lenny, Sulayman, Sylvie, Willow, Alex, Francesca, Ezra, Zayd


This work was created as part of Wonder Club, a creative programme of workshops for young people at Hove Museum of Creativity led by artist Chahine Fellahi, exploring early film through experimental approaches to photography, film, and image-making. The programme was part of Days of Wonder, a three-year programme exploring film and media heritage in Brighton, curated and produced by videoclub and Corridor Projects in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East.

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