April 30, 2026Still image from: Oscar Bittner, High Diver (2024)
Queer Worlds – film screening programme
Queer Worlds brings together a collection of 15 short films by LGBTQIA+ artists from the UK and around the world, presented as a single-screen programme. Spanning animation, documentary, experimental film and poetic fiction, the works offer a rich and varied reflection on contemporary Queer life.
Across the programme, artists explore themes of identity, memory, desire and belonging, alongside experiences of disability, neurodivergence and care. The films move between intimate personal stories and wider social and political contexts – from reflections on labour, technology and global systems, to reimagined rituals of grief and community, and overlooked histories of queer resistance.
Film screening details
Venue: Colonnade House, 47 Warwick St, Worthing BN11 3DH Date and times: 28 May, 6:30pm – 8pm Ticket price: £4 Get a ticket: BUY TICKETS
Still image from: Chieh Lin, Everything That Shakes (2025)
Films in the programme
– Alexandra Olympia Peristeraki, All Souls Day – ψυχοσάββατα, 2024, 3:30 mins – Julieta Tetelbaum, Black Chalk, 2022, 4:30 mins – Mariana Leal, Making It Fit, 2025, 4:30 mins – Oran O’Sullivan, Cesspit of Freedom, 2022, 1:42 mins – Sai Aryal, Dragphoria, 2025, 9:23 mins – David Kmet, By a Thread, 2025, 4:40 mins – Pafo Gallieri, Seguidilla of the Femminiello, 2020, 2:18 mins – Ross Ozarka, Under My Skin, 2024, 1:00 mins – Oscar Bittner, High Diver, 2024, 4:58 mins – Babi Astolfi, Mecha Meraki, 2024, 4:12 mins – Chieh Lin, Everything That Shakes, 2025, 3:56 mins – Yasmin Godo, (Un)fit to Work, 2022, 4:51 mins – Pauline Bernard-Vernay, Casa Susanna, 2025, 2:20 mins – Christa Poh, Midnight Bye-Bye, 2024, 1:35 mins – Sonia Wargacka, Wild Geese, 2025, 1:14 mins
Credits
Curated and produced by videoclub Co-curated with young people from Esteem Supported by Arts Council England
Enormous thanks to young people and staff at Esteem for their participation and support.
April 19, 2026We Are Warriors at Bristol’s Redcliffe Caves, 2024. Photo by Manuel Vason
Dreamy Place and videoclub are supporting In Between Time to present We Are Warriors during Brighton Festival in May. We are looking for stewards to support the delivery of the event and welcome visitors. Deadline to apply is 25 April.
In May, In Between Time are staging We Are Warriors in the Cab Road tunnel beneath Brighton Railway Station in collaboration with Brighton Festival and Dreamy Place. We Are Warriors is an immersive sound and light installation led by over 100 women, girls, trans people, and non-binary voices. Each visitor is invited to create and place a light in tribute to someone who has been lost or silenced, transforming the dark space into a sanctuary.
– Stewarding Opportunity
In Between Time (IBT) are looking for stewards to support the delivery and audience engagement for this work. The contract is for 3 weeks between the 10May and the 25 May 2026. If you are personable, enjoy helping artists realise their ambitions, interested in collaborating on unusual events in unconventional spaces, and are passionate about audience engagement and inclusion, we’d love to hear from you.
– Details
Dates: 10/05/26 – 25/05/26
Location: The Cab Road tunnel, Trafalgar St, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 4ED (The Cab Road tunnel entrance is located across from The Prince Albert pub on Trafalgar Street)
Pay: Real Living Wage (£13.45 per hour)
Shifts: 9 hours (with a 30-minute unpaid break). Option of 4 or 10 shifts spread between 10/05/2026 – 25/05/2026 with the possible option of additional hours to be confirmed.
You will need to be in Brighton during the delivery of We Are Warriors.
– The Role
Provide a warm welcome to the public to the Cab Road tunnel and ensure visitors are following event guidelines
Provide information about We Are Warriors, the Cab Road & In Between Time.
Show visitors how to make a light for the installation.
Look after the artwork, replacing lights and redistributing them throughout the space.
Support the audience to safely engage with the space and the work, ensuring safe numbers of audience in the space and out of bounds areas are not accessed.
Record numbers of people visiting the installation and collect audience feedback.
Handle donations from the audience.
Be the eyes and ears around the piece: informing your point of contact immediately in the event of damage to the artwork, in the instance of any health and safety or security issues arising, and of any other emergencies that may occur.
Maintain a welcoming ‘front of house’ space (ticketing area) to greet members of the public and manage donations.
Support public engagement through flyering at the door, erecting signage around the installation and nearby Brighton locations.
– Skills
No formal experience or qualifications are required, however previous work with the public or as a steward is preferred.
We require stewards to be friendly, confident and engaged with the exhibition and our audience.
Organisational skills to support volunteer rotas.
First aid trained preferred but not essential. If you have a current first aid certificate, please mention this in your application.
DBS certificate holder preferred but not essential. If you have a current DBS certificate, please mention this in your application.
A full briefing will be provided, including information on the work and managing audiences in the space.
Applicants must be available for training on the 10 and 11 May.
– How to apply
If you would like to apply for this role, please send an email including the following:
a short email introducing yourself and your experience
your CV and
your availability across the dates and number of shifts (4 or 10) you would be willing to work
You may apply with a short 3-minute video to introduce yourself instead of a written introduction. Please email a link of the video to beau@inbetweentime.co.uk
Video call interviews will take place on 28 April, we are unable to offer interviews on any other date.
Deadline: 25/04/26 at 5pm (You will be contacted on 26 April with the outcome of your application)
– Our commitment to diversity
In Between Time is working towards creating a team that represents the diversity of the UK. We are committed to inclusion for everyone regardless of race, gender, disability, culture, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Our programme and governing board strongly reflect this commitment, and we are working towards ensuring that people with a diversity of experiences are represented in our team. To help us monitor our progress and accountability we ask you to complete equality monitoring questions as part of the application. We are committed to putting procedures in place to ensure the working environment is supportive for everyone.
– Contract status and eligibility
This is a freelance / self-employed role. The successful applicant will be responsible for their own tax, National Insurance, insurance, and pension contributions. This role does not constitute employment.
We cannot sponsor work visas. This position is open to people who have the right to live and work in the UK. This includes international students or other internationals who have a valid visa permitting freelance or self-employed work in the UK for the duration of the contract.
– About In Between Time
In Between Time is an arts charity committed to nurturing the live art ecosystem for artists, audiences and participants in the UK.
Our vision is to inspire everyone to imagine the world as it could be. To ignite radical hope through transformational art for a future we both need and desire.
Collaboration sits at the heart of what we do, connecting artists with people, stepping aside to offer co-creation and shared ownership of creativity. We are fearless, seeking out urgent, unheard voices to explore, reflect and empower the drive for change.
April 18, 2026We Are Warriors at Bristol’s Redcliffe Caves, 2024. Photo by Manuel Vason
Dreamy Place and videoclub are supporting In Between Time to present We Are Warriors – a captivating light and sound installation – in the Cab Road tunnel beneath Brighton Railway Station for Brighton Festival 2026.
We Are Warriors is an immersive sound and light installation, described by audiences as ‘a wonderground’. ‘Awe-inspiring’, ‘utterly raw’ and ‘heartbreakingly beautiful’, this subterranean constellation of women’s, girls’, trans and non-binary voices carves collective remembrance, resistance and care from the shadows. Reclaiming a city’s darkest spaces, We Are Warriors ignites neglected sites with hundreds of flickering lights, each placed in tribute to someone who has been lost or silenced.
Upon arrival, you will be invited to take part by creating and placing a light of your own to honour a silenced voice, joining a global chorus. The installation transforms dark spaces into sanctuaries, inviting audiences to push the dark away.
GET TICKETS, DATES AND LOCATION Dates and times: Wed 13 May to Sun 17 May, Wed 20 May to Sun 24 May – 11am to 7pm Venue: The Cab Road tunnel (beneath Brighton Railway Station, opposite the Prince Albert pub), Trafalgar Street, Brighton BN1 4ED Ticket price: £4 Buy Tickets:BUY TICKETS
*PLEASE NOTE THAT LAST ENTRY TO THE INSTALLATION IS 6.30PM*
We Are Warriors consists of hundreds of LED lights and a 25-minute soundscape. We suggest allowing 20-30 minutes to enjoy the installation, but you are welcome to stay for as long as you like. The Cab Road can be cold and has an uneven floor surface; please wear warm clothes and comfortable footwear.
We Are Warriors at Bristol’s Redcliffe Caves, 2024. Photo by Manuel Vason
ABOUT IN BETWEEN TIME In Between Time (IBT) is a pioneering arts producer, creating transformative artworks, festivals, and public gatherings for over 25 years, inspiring hope for a fairer, safer world.
ABOUT HELEN COLE Helen Cole, director of We Are Warriors, is an award-winning cultural leader, artist, and producer with 30 years’ experience creating visionary projects locally and internationally. She is founder and Artistic Director of In Between Time.
PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS We Are Warriors is presented as part of Brighton Festival 2026. It is supported using National Lottery funding through Arts Council England, and is presented in partnership with videoclub and Dreamy Place.
ACCESSIBILITY The Cab Road is a 19th century cobbled road beneath Brighton Railway Station – the road is on an incline and the distance between the entrance and the installation is approximately 80 metres.
The Cab Road has an uneven floor surface. It is wheelchair accessible. Comfortable footwear is advised.
Light levels in the Cab Road vary, getting darker further into the tunnel. There will be stewards to help you navigate the space.
Lights will not create a strobe effect.
Noise levels vary throughout the installation. Earplugs are available upon request.
Guide and assistance dogs are welcome.
The Cab Road tunnel can be cold. Please wear warm clothes.
Seats are available in the installation.
The Cab Road tunnel does not have toilets. However, you can access step-free toilets in Brighton Railway Station, which is a 5-minute walk from the tunnel entrance.
April 8, 2026Still image from: Sonia Wargacka, Wild Geese (2025) – courtesy of the artist
Queer Worlds – Exhibition of films by LGBTQIA+ artists from across the globe
Tuesday 26 May – Sunday 7 June at Colonnade House, Worthing + film screening on 28 May
Queer Worlds brings together a collection of 15 short films by LGBTQIA+ artists from the UK and around the world, presented as a single-screen programme. Spanning animation, documentary, experimental film and poetic fiction, the works offer a rich and varied reflection on contemporary Queer life.
Across the programme, artists explore themes of identity, memory, desire and belonging, alongside experiences of disability, neurodivergence and care. The films move between intimate personal stories and wider social and political contexts – from reflections on labour, technology and global systems, to reimagined rituals of grief and community, and overlooked histories of queer resistance.
Film screening on 28 May
An opportunity to sit and watch the whole programme, with films projected on the big screen at Colonnade House.
Venue: Colonnade House, 47 Warwick St, Worthing BN11 3DH Date and times: 28 May, 6:30pm – 8pm Ticket price: £4 Get a ticket: BUY TICKETS
Still image from: Chieh Lin, Everything That Shakes (2025)Still image from: Babi Astolfi, Mecha Meraki (2024) – courtesy of the artist
Films in the programme
Films are shown on a 60-minute loop in this order, starting on the hour.
– Alexandra Olympia Peristeraki, All Souls Day – ψυχοσάββατα, 2024, 3:30 mins – Julieta Tetelbaum, Black Chalk, 2022, 4:30 mins – Mariana Leal, Making It Fit, 2025, 4:30 mins – Oran O’Sullivan, Cesspit of Freedom, 2022, 1:42 mins – Sai Aryal, Dragphoria, 2025, 9:23 mins – David Kmet, By a Thread, 2025, 4:40 mins – Pafo Gallieri, Seguidilla of the Femminiello, 2020, 2:18 mins – Ross Ozarka, Under My Skin, 2024, 1:00 mins – Oscar Bittner, High Diver, 2024, 4:58 mins – Babi Astolfi, Mecha Meraki, 2024, 4:12 mins – Chieh Lin, Everything That Shakes, 2025, 3:56 mins – Yasmin Godo, (Un)fit to Work, 2022, 4:51 mins – Pauline Bernard-Vernay, Casa Susanna, 2025, 2:20 mins – Christa Poh, Midnight Bye-Bye, 2024, 1:35 mins – Sonia Wargacka, Wild Geese, 2025, 1:14 mins
Films in Queer Worlds approach a variety of subjects in diverse, creative ways. Black Chalk by Julieta Tetelbaum offers a tender portrait of a neurodivergent woman navigating everyday life, while Everything That Shakes by Chieh Lin transforms anxiety and uncertainty into a shared space for reflection and healing. Mecha Meraki by Babi Astolfi and By a Thread by David Kmet explore identity and transformation through imaginative, symbolic worlds, and Oran O’Sullivan’s work remembers a largely forgotten moment of UK Queer protest.
Still image from: David Kmet, By a Thread (2025) – courtesy of the artist
February 20, 2026Image – still from film: Sonia Wargacka – Wild Geese (2025) – courtesy of the artist
videoclub presents Shoreham Queer Film Trails – a series of three free outdoor screenings bringing bold, intimate and imaginative LGBTQIA+ moving image works into the public spaces of Shoreham.
Across animation, documentary, experimental film and poetic fiction, the programme gathers artists from across the globe who explore identity, memory, technology, grief and desire through personal and political lenses. The curated films foreground bodies and lives often marginalised or made invisible – offering space for complexity, tenderness and defiance.
Projected onto buildings and unexpected surfaces around central Shoreham at night, these films create a shared public encounter with queer storytelling – inviting audiences to walk together, pause together, and experience the town as a site of collective imagination and reflection.
Artists and filmmakers in the programme include: Alexandra Olympia Peristeraki, Babi Astolfi, Chieh Lin, Christa Poh, David Kmet, Julieta Tetelbaum, Mariana Leal, Oran O’Sullivan, Oscar Bittner, Pafo Gallieri, Pauline Bernard-Vernay, Ross Ozarka, Sai Aryal, Sonia Wargacka and Yasmin Godo
Booking and meeting locations for screenings
There are three film trails on three different dates – each trail has different films and a different route. We will be giving out information about the films on each trail on the evening as a handout.
🌈 Tuesday 3 March at 7pm Meeting point: St Mary de Haura Church, Church St, Shoreham-by-Sea BN43 5DQ Book free tickets: BOOK TICKETS
FILMS FOR 3rd MARCH: Alexandra Olympia Peristeraki, All Souls Day – ψυχοσάββατα, 2024, 3:30 mins Julieta Tetelbaum, Black Chalk, 2022, 4:30 mins Mariana Leal, Making It Fit, 2025, 4:30 mins Oran O’Sullivan, Cesspit of Freedom, 2022, 1:42 mins Sai Aryal, Dragphoria, 2025, 9:23 mins
🌈 Tuesday 10 March at 7pm Meeting point: Esteem Youth Group, The Old School House, Ham Rd, Shoreham-by-Sea BN43 6PA Book free tickets: BOOK TICKETS
FILMS FOR 10th MARCH: David Kmet, By a Thread, 2025, 4:40 mins Pafo Gallieri, Seguidilla of the Femminiello, 2020, 2:18 mins Ross Ozarka, Under My Skin, 2024, 1:00 mins Oscar Bittner, High Diver, 2024, 4:58 mins Babi Astolfi, Mecha Meraki, 2024, 4:12 mins
🌈 Tuesday 17 March at 7pm Meeting point: St Mary de Haura Church, Church St, Shoreham-by-Sea BN43 5DQ Book free tickets: BOOK TICKETS
FILMS FOR 17th MARCH: Chieh Lin, Everything That Shakes, 2025, 3:56 mins Yasmin Godo, (Un)fit to Work, 2022, 4:51 mins Pauline Bernard-Vernay, Casa Susanna, 2025, 2:20 mins Christa Poh, Midnight Bye-Bye, 2024, 1:35 mins Sonia Wargacka, Wild Geese, 2025, 1:14 mins
Each evening begins with a short welcome and introduction before audiences are guided on foot around a curated route of projected films and video artworks.
Outdoor projection of Shon Faye – Catechism by Emily Mcdonald – image credit: videoclub
What to expect and access
Guided walking route through Shoreham town centre
Projections onto buildings and short film screenings
A welcoming, relaxed and community-focused atmosphere
Outdoor event – please dress for the weather and wear comfortable shoes
Majority of the trail routes will be accessible to wheelchair users
Walk will be at a leisurely pace with five stops
Films will be captioned
About Shoreham outdoor Queer film trail
The film trails have been co-curated by videoclub and young people at Esteem Youth Group. A call out for films by UK and international Queer artists and filmmakers was published in December 2025, which resulted in 400 films being submitted for the opportunity. 15 films have been selected from the submissions, with five different films appearing across three film trails.
An exhibition of the films will happen at Colonnade House in Worthing between 25 May and 8 June.
This project is supported by Arts Council England.
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.
🎟️Tickets, location and date
Date and time: 6 February, 7:30-11pm Venue: Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton BN1 1EE (click here for a map) Tickets: SOLD OUT
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 Directed by Harun Güler, IN LIMBO is a poetic short film that challenges Middle Eastern conventions through intimate vignettes of taboo-breaking personalities in Istanbul. Treading the line between documentary and highly stylised fiction, the work subverts traditional gender expectations. Striking scenes include a masculine-presenting group on a shoreline discussing girls before one reveals top surgery scars, and a belly dancer in the desert lifting a veil to reveal a moustache. Produced for NOWNESS, the film serves as a subversive ode to identity, free from cultural clichés.
🎞️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
Updated: 16 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 – photo by Jim Kirby
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.
Play Back Forward – Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin, 2025 – photo by Jim Kirby
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
Play Back Forward 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.
Play Back Forward – Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin, 2025 – photo by Jim Kirby
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.
