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24/04/2026

Drop in to the ARC, Glasgow to experience •~𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴~• (𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨~𝘹𝘪𝘢𝘯) (2025) by artist Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 ✨

In early 2025, Song began working with a microbiologist, who captured microscopic footage of organisms living in the Song family pond. Song reimagined these organisms as eight glazed ceramic deities. These drew from the Daoist tradition of kim sin, in which statues of deities are themselves considered as spiritual presences, to which daily respects are paid in both temples and homes.

These ceramics were 3D scanned in the XR Lab at the Advanced Research Centre. Then, working with animators, Song transformed the 3D models into lively, animated beings, which sway gently, then dance fitfully. These beings were originally made to appear in Song’s exhibition •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• at Tramway, Glasgow (until 16 August 2026).

Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 is appearing as a panellist on the upcoming ARC Conversations on Tuesday 28 April - The Art of Research: Expanding Disciplinary Horizons: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arc-conversation-the-art-of-research-expanding-disciplinary-horizons-tickets-1984875897240?aff=oddtdtcreator

🎟 Free entry
📍 ARC Atrium, University of Glasgow
📆 Screening until 28 April 2026
🔗 Find out more: https://www.fvu.co.uk/whats-on/current-coming-up/ghosts-song-xian

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•~𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴~• (𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨~𝘹𝘪𝘢𝘯) by Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 is produced by Film and Video Umbrella.

•~𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴~• (𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨~𝘹𝘪𝘢𝘯) is co-commissioned by FVU; Tramway, Glasgow; FACT, Liverpool; the Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow; and is supported by Thinking Culture, a cultural programme from the University of Glasgow’s School of Culture & Creative Arts.

FVU and FACT are supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Tramway is supported by Creative Scotland.

Animators for •~𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴~• (𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨~𝘹𝘪𝘢𝘯): Tim Dalzell (3D Modelling and Texturing); Maurice Andresen (Rigging, 3D Animation & Rendering).

22/04/2026

Make sure to check out our latest feature, 'Cues' (2026) by Anna Engelhardt 🎬

We are excited to be premiering 'Cues' (2026) by Anna Engelhardt on FVU Watch this month, one of six new moving image works commissioned as part of FVU New Takes 📣

'Cues' examines interrogation as a performed scene, staged through gesture, repetition, set-up, and technical props. Taking the polygraph as its recurring prop, the work traces the script that structures interrogation. The formulaic scenes from police training films and film noir are punctured by a near-human test figure that shadows the characters’ movements, pulling their choreography into view. Across these fragments, interrogation reads like rehearsal. Repeated often enough, its staged action turns into procedure.

You can also read a newly commissioned text by writer, curator and film programmer Rachael Rakes to accompany 'Cues', examining how visual technologies, especially photography, film, and now AI, have never been neutral tools for revealing truth, but have instead been shaped by systems of power that determine what counts as evidence and reality.

🔗 Watch and Read: https://www.fvu.co.uk/watch :

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‘Cues’ (2026) will be on view at Arnolfini, Bristol from 12 May — 16 June 2026.

Have you watched ‘Cues’, or engaged with any of the other works commissioned as part of FVU New Takes on FVU Watch? Fill out our Audience Survey to be in with a chance of winning a £50 Gift Card for Everyman Cinemas (UK-wide): https://uk.culturecounts.cc/s/oXoGd/splash

'Cues' (2026) has been commissioned as part of FVU New Takes, an FVU initiative supported by Jerwood Foundation. FVU is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

20/04/2026

Make sure to check out Adnan Madani's newly commissioned text responding to Naeem Mohaiemen's work 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠 on our website 🎬

Adnan examines a world saturated with mediated images of violence, revealing how perception is shaped by power and spectacle, writing:

"To archive, commemorate, preserve—these gestures remain necessary for any politics of redress. Yet Mohaiemen’s dark mirror warns that such gestures can easily become narcotic substitutes for transformation. The work insists that we attend to what is absent, dis-formed, or refuses return. Memory persists but cannot by itself redeem; risk, not remembrance, must be sustained if politics is to remain possible."

𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠, currently on view at Bonington Gallery, examines the turbulent 1970s, a decade of hopeful rebellions and catastrophic disappointments. The film focuses on flashpoint moments in May 1970, when American students protesting domestic racism and overseas wars were met by state and civilian violence.

🎟 Free for all audiences
📆 Until 9 May 2026
📍 Bonington Gallery at Nottingham Trent University
⏰ Screening times:
→ Mon-Fri: 10.30am, 12pm, 1.30pm, 3pm
→ Saturday: 11am, 12.30pm, 2pm

🔗 Read Adnan Madani's text on our website: https://buff.ly/28dt20J

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𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠 (2026)
Commissioned and produced by Artangel.
Commissioned in partnership with Film and Video Umbrella and Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University.

The UK tour has been convened by Film and Video Umbrella following the inaugural London presentation of the work by Artangel at Albany House (September – December 2025).

📸 by Jules Lister

17/04/2026

NEW on : 'Reinforcements' by Rachael Rakes ✨

We are delighted to present a new text by curator, writer and programmer Rachael Rakes to accompany our latest feature 'Cues' (2026) by Anna Engelhardt , one of six new works commissioned for FVU New Takes 🎬

'Cues' examines interrogation as a performed scene, staged through gesture, repetition, set-up, and technical props. Taking the polygraph as its recurring prop, the work traces the script that structures interrogation. The formulaic scenes from police training films and film noir are punctured by a near-human test figure that shadows the characters’ movements, pulling their choreography into view. Across these fragments, interrogation reads like rehearsal. Repeated often enough, its staged action turns into procedure.

📚 Rachael's essay expands on Engelhardt's work and examines how visual technologies, especially photography, film, and now AI, have never been neutral tools for revealing truth, but have instead been shaped by systems of power that determine what counts as evidence and reality.

🔗 Watch and read: https://www.fvu.co.uk/watch

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‘Cues’ (2026) will be on view at Arnolfini, Bristol from 12 May — 16 June 2026.

Have you watched ‘Cues’, or engaged with any of the other works commissioned as part of FVU New Takes on FVU Watch? Fill out our Audience Survey to be in with a chance of winning a £50 Gift Card for Everyman Cinemas (UK-wide). Link in bio!

'Cues' (2026) has been commissioned as part of FVU New Takes, an FVU initiative supported by Jerwood Foundation. FVU is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

15/04/2026

David Blandy's FVU-commissioned film 'Commons' (2025) features as part of POST's Earth & Eye Festival on Saturday 25th April 2026 🎬

'Commons' will be screening at 12pm, followed by an artist talk with David Blandy.

POST’s Earth & Eye weekender celebrates nature through the lens of artists seeking to elevate its status, and highlight the importance of our connection to, and role within, the natural world.

‘Commons’ draws on the collections of objects and specimens at The Amelia Scott, Tunbridge Wells and The Beaney, Canterbury. This expansive work combines archive film with three dimensional scans and newly captured footage of ancient rocks and woodland: common land preserved for all. These non-human subjects and objects are brought together on a pilgrimage across deep time, each speaking from their own subjectivity, telling each other chronicles of their experience, over years or millennia, deliberately de-centring human existence.

📆 Saturday 25th April, 12pm
🎟 Tickets can be bookec at post-creatives.co.uk
🔗 Find our more: https://www.fvu.co.uk/whats-on/current-coming-up/commons-post-brighton

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Commons was commissioned as part of The Open Road by The Amelia Scott, Tunbridge Wells, as part of the Kent and Medway Museum Partnership National Portfolio Organisation, and Film and Video Umbrella. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

13/04/2026

Don't miss Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner's new film 'Tgirls Make Music' (2026) currently exhibiting at in Bristol until 10 May ✨

'Tgirls Make Music' is a documentary about trans woman rapper and producer htmljones (Ishaani Ponniah), framed through the visual language of early-2000s television, 2010s internet aesthetics, and contemporary British culture.

The core of the work is an interview with htmljones hosted by trans woman and director Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner on the fictional ‘T4T (Trans for Trans) Network’, edited to replicate a TV talk show format and interspersed with htmljones’ live musical performances. The conversations captured during the interview are intimate and direct, split up by regular bumper ‘ad breaks’. Across the work, questions of trans, le***an and furry visibility, self-representation and cultural memory are held open rather than resolved. The work considers who is included in archives, who is left out, and how trans people document their lives - approaching transgender history as something lived, messy and continually in progress.

🎟 Free entry
📆 Until 10 May 2026
📍 Arnolfini's Dark Studio (Level 2)
🔗 Find out more: https://www.fvu.co.uk/whats-on/current-coming-up/giants-anatomy
→ Not in Bristol? You can still watch 'Tgirls Make Music' on , link in bio!

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‘Tgirls Make Music’ (2026) has been commissioned as part of FVU New Takes, an FVU initiative supported by Jerwood Foundation. FVU is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

11/04/2026

Now Open: Amaal Said's film 'Open Country' (2025) is exhibiting at Phoenix, Leicester until 28 June! 🎬

Multidisciplinary artist Amaal Said's moving image work 'Open Country' follows a Somali mother and daughter as they set out on foot to trace the Pilgrim's Way, and their plan to record an audio diary for loved ones back home in Somalia.

Inspired by a longing to connect with family abroad, the film explores the tension between being present in the here and now while still yearning for another place. 'Open Country' is accompanied by three new photographic works of mother and daughter – taken in The National Trust’s Red House, one location from the film – that speak to connection, distance, and longing.

Not in Leicester? Don't miss Amaal's exhibition 'Between Here and Elsewhere' in London at Forma, 15 Bermondsey Square, on show until 7 June 2026 ✨

🎟 Free entry
📍 Phoenix, Leicester
📆 Until 28 June 2026
🔗 Find out more on our website: https://www.fvu.co.uk/whats-on/current-coming-up/open-country-5

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'Open Country' was commissioned for The Open Road by Film and Video Umbrella, Forma, and Three Rivers. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

The Open Road is a series of artists moving image works co-commissioned by a partnership of visual arts organisations including Film and Video Umbrella, The Amelia Scott, Cement Fields, FLAMIN, Forma, and Three Rivers.

09/04/2026

NEW on : 'Cues' (2026) by Anna Engelhardt 📣

We are excited to be premiering 'Cues' (2026) by Anna Engelhardt on FVU Watch this month, one of six new moving image works commissioned as part of FVU New Takes ✨

'Cues' examines interrogation as a performed scene, staged through gesture, repetition, set-up, and technical props. Taking the polygraph as its recurring prop, the work traces the script that structures interrogation. The formulaic scenes from police training films and film noir are punctured by a near-human test figure that shadows the characters’ movements, pulling their choreography into view. Across these fragments, interrogation reads like rehearsal. Repeated often enough, its staged action turns into procedure.

🔗 Watch now for free: https://www.fvu.co.uk/watch

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Cues (2026) will be on view at Arnolfini, Bristol from 12 May — 16 June 2026.

Have you watched Cues, or engaged with any of the other works commissioned as part of FVU New Takes on FVU Watch? Fill out our Audience Survey to be in with a chance of winning a £50 Gift Card for Everyman Cinemas (UK-wide): https://uk.culturecounts.cc/s/oXoGd/splash

'Cues' (2026) has been commissioned as part of FVU New Takes, an FVU initiative supported by Jerwood Foundation. FVU is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

08/04/2026

If in Nottingham, don't miss Naeem Mohaiemen's exhibition of 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠 (2025), on view at Bonington Gallery until 9 May 2026 ✨

𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠 examines the turbulent 1970s, a decade of hopeful rebellions and catastrophic disappointments. The film focuses on flashpoint moments in May 1970, when American students protesting domestic racism and overseas wars were met by state and civilian violence.

You can also read a newly commissioned text by artist, writer and lecturer Adnan Madani responding to 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠. Adnan examines a world saturated with mediated images of violence, revealing how perception is shaped by power and spectacle. Read now on FVU's website: https://www.fvu.co.uk/read/through-a-mirror-darkly-risk-mediation-and-the-glass-of-history

🎟 Free for all audiences
📆 Until 9 May 2026
📍 Bonington Gallery at Nottingham Trent University
⏰ Screening times:
→ Mon-Fri: 10.30am, 12pm, 1.30pm, 3pm
→ Saturday: 11am, 12.30pm, 2pm
🔗 https://www.fvu.co.uk/projects/through-a-mirror-darkly

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𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠 (2026)
Commissioned and produced by Artangel.
Commissioned in partnership with Film and Video Umbrella and Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University.

The UK tour has been convened by Film and Video Umbrella following the inaugural London presentation of the work by Artangel at Albany House (September – December 2025).

📸 by Jules Lister

03/04/2026

FVU commissions in Glasgow International 2026 📣

We are thrilled that two FVU-commissioned works feature as part of the newly announced programme for Glasgow International, taking place from Friday 5 - Sunday 21 June 2026.

→ Rae-Yen Song, •~𝘛𝘜𝘈~• 大眼 •~𝘔𝘈𝘒~• (2025)
An ambitious new multimedia exhibition transforming Tramway’s vast gallery space into a sub-aquatic world shaped according to the ancestral logics of the Song family, which serves simultaneously as spectacle, memorial and refuge. Film and Video Umbrella commissioned eight new digital animations for the exhibition titled •~𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴~• (𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨~𝘹𝘪𝘢𝘯). The exhibition will unfold during the festival into a live operatic performance.
📍 Tramway, Glasgow
🎟 Open now. Free entry!

→ Naeem Mohaiemen, 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠 (2025)
The work examines the turbulent 1970s, a decade of hopeful rebellions and catastrophic disappointments. The film focuses on flashpoint moments in May 1970, when American students protesting domestic racism and overseas wars were met by state and civilian violence. As part of the UK tour of university galleries, convened by Film and Video Umbrella, 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠 will be exhibiting at The Hunterian, Glasgow from Friday 5 June 2026. More info coming soon!
📍 The Hunterian, Universiy of Glasgow
🎟 Free entry!

🔗 Find out more about the projects on our website (fvu.co.uk), or visit glasgowinternational.org for more information about the festival!
→ Catch 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠 at Bonington Gallery in Nottingham until 9 May 2026!

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•~𝘛𝘜𝘈~• 大眼 •~𝘔𝘈𝘒~• is a Tramway co-commission with FACT, Liverpool and Film and Video Umbrella with support from University of Glasgow and Creative Folkestone. Funders Creative Scotland, Arts Council England, Henry Moore Foundation.

𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠
Commissioned and produced by Artangel.
Commissioned in partnership with Film and Video Umbrella and The Wexner Center for Arts at The Ohio State University.

01/04/2026

Opening this weekend: Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner's new film 'Tgirls Make Music' (2026) is exhibiting at Arnolfini in Bristol ✨📣

'Tgirls Make Music' is a documentary about trans woman rapper and producer htmljones (Ishaani Ponniah), framed through the visual language of early-2000s television, 2010s internet aesthetics, and contemporary British culture.

The core of the work is an interview with htmljones hosted by trans woman and director Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner on the fictional ‘T4T (Trans for Trans) Network’, edited to replicate a TV talk show format and interspersed with htmljones’ live musical performances. The conversations captured during the interview are intimate and direct, split up by regular bumper ‘ad breaks’. Across the work, questions of trans, le***an and furry visibility, self-representation and cultural memory are held open rather than resolved. The work considers who is included in archives, who is left out, and how trans people document their lives - approaching transgender history as something lived, messy and continually in progress.

🎟 Free entry
📆 4 April — 10 May 2026
📍 Arnolfini's Dark Studio (Level 2)
🔗 Find out more: https://www.fvu.co.uk/projects/tgirls-make-music
→ Not in Bristol? You can still watch 'Tgirls Make Music' on .

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‘Tgirls Make Music’ (2026) has been commissioned as part of FVU New Takes, an FVU initiative supported by Jerwood Foundation. FVU is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

27/03/2026

NOW OPEN: Naeem Mohaiemen's exhibition of 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠 (2025) is on view at Bonington Gallery until 9 May 2026 🎬

𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠 examines the turbulent 1970s, a decade of hopeful rebellions and catastrophic disappointments. The film focuses on flashpoint moments in May 1970, when American students protesting domestic racism and overseas wars were met by state and civilian violence.

The UK tour has been convened by Film and Video Umbrella following the inaugural London presentation of the work by Artangel at Albany House (September – December 2025).

We are delighted to present a newly commissioned text by artist, writer and lecturer Adnan Madani responding to 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠. Adnan examines a world saturated with mediated images of violence, revealing how perception is shaped by power and spectacle. Read now: https://www.fvu.co.uk/read/through-a-mirror-darkly-risk-mediation-and-the-glass-of-history

🎟 Free for all audiences
📆 21 March – 9 May 2026
📍 Bonington Gallery at Nottingham Trent University
⏰ Screening times:
→ Mon-Fri: 10.30am, 12pm, 1.30pm, 3pm
→ Saturday: 11am, 12.30pm, 2pm

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𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘈 𝘔𝘐𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘙, 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘓𝘠 (2026)
Commissioned and produced by Artangel.
Commissioned in partnership with Film and Video Umbrella and Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University.

📸 by Jules Lister

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