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Film and Video Umbrella, 8 Vine Yard, London (2026)

24/09/2026

📢 We are super excited that 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦, a new film and installation by artist Jenkin van Zyl, is now open at Somerset House until 29 November ✨

Set in a decaying facility that once allowed tourists to inhabit replicas of other people, 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 follows its protagonist, Mercy, over a single day as she tries to end her connection to her double (known as a Cherub) with unexpected consequences.

The installation expands the film into a large-scale immersive environment where audiences move through the material remains of the facility — fairground signage, office debris, decaying ephemera — a world still performing long after the system it served has collapsed.

🎟 Free entry!
📆 Until 29 November 2026
📍 Lancaster Rooms, New Wing
🔗 Find out more: https://www.fvu.co.uk/whats-on/current-coming-up/enclosure

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𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 was commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Somerset House Studios and HOME, Manchester.

Film produced by Film and Video Umbrella.

Developed in residence at Somerset House Studios.

FVU and HOME are supported by Arts Council England.

21/09/2026

This month on , we’re re-featuring some of the newly commissioned works developed as part of , available now to watch for free! 👀

The works commissioned for offer bold and inventive approaches to storytelling and form, addressing contemporary themes including the global climate crisis, crip filmmaking, body politics, state violence, archival memory, and contemporary trans+ and British culture.

Newly highlighted is 'Tgirls Make Music' by Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner – 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.

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.✨

🔗 Watch for free: https://www.fvu.co.uk/watch/tgirls-make-music-2
→ You can also watch works by artists Hantao Li, Morisha Moodley, and Jameisha Prescod.

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FVU New Takes is an FVU initiative supported by Jerwood Foundation. Exhibition partner: Arnolfini, Bristol. Film and Video Umbrella is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

15/09/2026

📢 FVU:LAB Residency Update ✨

Over the summer, Donald Shek joined us in Nottingham for his FVU:LAB Residency at Nottingham Trent University, where he undertook a research and development period centred on his upcoming project 'Dance With Me' 🎬

'Dance With Me' is a moving-image installation investigating the dancefloor as a diasporic “third space” – a site of intimacy, inheritance, belonging, and temporal looping. Drawing on mythology, dance halls, club culture, and concepts of hauntology, the work explores how the dancefloor can hold and transmit histories, memories, and embodied forms of knowledge across time and place. The resulting work will invite audiences to consider dance not simply as entertainment, but as a shared language: a way of remembering, connecting, carrying histories, and finding belonging.

As part of his residency, Donald worked with cutting edge technologies at NTU’s new Design and Digital Arts building, alongside recruiting performers local to Nottingham to explore these themes further, saying:

"It's not everyday that you can experiment with this kind of technology. My experience with FVU:LAB has taught me a lot about the digital archiving of movement, and how complex the human body can be. I will take the experience of working with such talented dancers with me as I navigate the future of this project. I want to thank the whole team at Film and Video Umbrella and Nottingham Trent University for giving me this opportunity. Dance with me so we don't fall.”

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Supported by FVU:LAB a research and development residency for artists supporting access to new technology in moving image.

FVU:LAB is a Film and Video Umbrella initiative delivered in collaboration with Nottingham
Trent University. FVU : LAB is supported by The Fenton Arts Trust.

Supported by Arts Council England.

14/09/2026

📢 Don't forget to join us for a free in-conversation at Arnolfini in Bristol on 17 September as part of ✨

Our programme has supported six exceptional emerging visual artists from across the UK to realise new moving image works. Each artist received a £5,000 fee/budget, alongside production and curatorial support from the FVU team and external mentors. Throughout the spring and summer, we have partnered with Arnolfini to bring these new works to audiences in the city, while also premiering on our free platform.

A number of the artists will join FVU Director Angelica Sule and Arnolfini’s Head of Exhibitions Gemma Brace for an in-conversation exploring their work, creative approaches and experiences of taking part in FVU New Takes.

The six selected artists — Mahdy Abo Bahat, Anna Engelhardt, Hantao Li, Morisha Moodley, Jameisha Prescod and Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner — bring bold and inventive approaches to storytelling and form, engaging with themes including the global climate crisis, crip filmmaking, body politics, state violence, archival memory, and contemporary trans+ and British culture.

📍 Arnolfini, Bristol
📅 17 September 2026
🕡 6:30pm - 7.30pm
🎟️ Book your free ticket: https://buff.ly/6Esnj1b

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📸 Morisha Moodley, 'Sideweighs and Backwords' (2026). Installation at Arnolfini, Bristol. Photography by Dan Weill

FVU New Takes is an FVU initiative supported by Jerwood Foundation. Film and Video Umbrella is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

11/09/2026

This month on , we’re re-featuring some of the newly commissioned works developed as part of , available now to watch for free! 👀

Our programme has supported six exceptional emerging visual artists from across the UK. The commissioned works offer bold and inventive approaches to storytelling and form, addressing contemporary themes including the global climate crisis, crip filmmaking, body politics, state violence, archival memory, and contemporary trans+ and British culture.

Currently highlighted is ‘Giants’ Anatomy’ by Hantao Li, exploring the uncertain afterlife of decommissioned North Sea oil platforms, combining real footage and CGI to imagine their possible futures beyond extraction. You can also read a specially commissioned text by artist and writer Gary Zhexi Zhang, situating the work as a near-future reflection on dismantling industry, mourning labour, and turning industrial history into spectacle and museum culture. ✨

In Bristol? Don’t miss our FVU New Takes in-conversation event with Arnolfini on 17 September, where four of the artists will join FVU Director Angelica Sule and Arnolfini’s Head of Exhibitions Gemma Brace to reflect on their work, creative approaches and experiences of taking part in the programme. Each of the commissioned works will be screening throughout the day in Arnolfini's Dark Studio. Sign up for free: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/arnolfini/thu-17-sep-fvu-new-takes-artists-talk-159865 📝

🔗 Watch and read: https://www.fvu.co.uk/watch/giants-anatomy-2
→ You can also watch works by artists Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner, Morisha Moodley, and Jameisha Prescod.

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FVU New Takes is an FVU initiative supported by Jerwood Foundation Jerwood Foundation. Exhibition partner: Arnolfini, Bristol. Film and Video Umbrella is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

10/09/2026

📢 We’re on the lookout for a friendly, like-minded, creative organisation to share our bright second-floor London office space, overlooking Redchurch Street in the heart of Shoreditch ✨

Located at Rich Mix, east London's home for film, music and creativity, the space is fully accessible and is home to a variety of creative, cultural and charitable organisations. Our team uses our office two days a week, so we are looking for another organisation to utilise the office for three days per week. We would need to retain the office for two consecutive days per week between Mon-Thurs, but are otherwise flexible.

→ Desk space for 6-8 people
→ Available three working days per week (days to be agreed), plus weekends.
→ Three fifths of current costs are: £900 (exc VAT) per month, or £10,700 (exc. VAT) per annum, inclusive of Rich Mix service charge, cleaning, internet, water, electricity.
→ Access to quiet gender neutral disabled toilet, gendered toilets and two shared kitchens, all within 8 metres of our office door.
→ Discounts on other services at Rich Mix including meeting rooms, cinemas, studio and exhibition spaces, cinema and event tickets.

If you, or your organisation, are interested in an affordable and flexible working environment, please get in touch: [email protected]

Further images, videos and specification information can be provided.

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Slide 1: Credit Rich Mix, Four Communications Mural

09/09/2026

Now open at Arnolfini, Bristol: Don't miss 'The Wretched of the Clouds' by Mahdy Abo-Bahat, one of six new moving image works commissioned as part of FVU New Takes, screening in Arnolfini's Dark Studio (Level 2) until 4 October 🎬

'The Wretched of the Clouds' is an ongoing film project that attempts to resist the culture of forgetfulness and erasure, imposed by the political climate of post-revolution Cairo, Egypt.

The film follows Mahdy as he rummages through an old cassette recording of Quran recitations, searching for a lost poem once recorded by a departed friend. As he rewinds the tape and unspools its memory, the poem dissolves into a prayer, turning remembrance into hallucination. Evoking the exhaustion, weariness and sickness of a time left behind, 'The Wretched of the Clouds' treats memory as a form of excavation; seeking to unearth fragments of a lost future buried within a history that has been repressed.

🎟 Free entry!
📆 Until 4 October 2026
🔗 Find out more:

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Have you watched or engaged with any of the 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://www.fvu.co.uk/whats-on/current-coming-up/the-wretched-of-the-clouds

'The Wretched of the Clouds' (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.

08/09/2026

📢 FVU:LAB Residency Update: Alex Culshaw ✨

We were delighted to welcome Alex to Nottingham for her FVU:LAB Research and Development Residency in August! The FVU:LAB programme has been developed by Film and Video Umbrella and delivered in collaboration with to provide opportunities for four emerging moving image artists to work with cutting edge technologies at NTU’s new Design and Digital Arts building.

Alex's proposal for her time in Nottingham focused on developing her new work 'Blue Lagoon', working with Foley Sound, 7.1 Surround Mixing, and the Virtual Production studio to create a simulated club scene with Notts-based dancers.

"The FVU:LAB residency has been completely transformative for 'Blue Lagoon' as a project, and I've learned so much through the process and experience. Working alongside Niki Harman (Producer, FVU) and the brilliant team of technicians at NTU opened up capabilities that really pushed the work far beyond anything I could have hoped to achieve on my own. Bringing a group of amazing performers together and building a world inside the VP studio, and having time to work with NTU's audio facilities and focus on sound production was a real pleasure. The quality of the footage and sound I’m now editing is beyond what I imagined possible, and I'm so grateful for the mentorship, generosity, skill, and care everyone brought to the project."

'Blue Lagoon' will premiere at Middlesborough Art Week 2026 from 24 September - 3 October, go to middlesbroughartweek.com for more details 🎬

01/09/2026

📢 EXTENDED! 'I'll Still Be Here When You Return' by Jameisha Prescod is now screening in Arnolfini's Dark Studio (Level 2) until Sunday 6 September ✨

'I’ll Still Be Here When You Return' is a moving image work that explores the space between sleeping and wakefulness during a chronic illness flare-up. Inspired by the artist’s personal experience with illness and disability, this film questions the emotional impact of living under systems that place great importance on the ‘productive’ bodies whilst ignoring and even demonising the sick ones. Point cloud animations made from 3D scans of the artist’s bedroom during a post-surgery recovery period dissolve into one another while a deceivingly calm and meditative voice-over drifts between thoughts of pain, memory, isolation and mortality.

🎟 Free entry!
📆 Until 6 September 2026
🔗 Find out more: https://www.fvu.co.uk/whats-on/current-coming-up/ill-still-be-here-when-you-return
🎬 Not in Bristol? Watch for free on : https://www.fvu.co.uk/watch/ill-still-be-here-when-you-return

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Have you watched or engaged with any of the 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

'I'll Still Be Here When You Return' (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.

28/08/2026

📢 Don't forget to join us for a free in-conversation at Arnolfini in Bristol on 17 September as part of 🎬

Our programme has supported six exceptional emerging visual artists from across the UK. Each artist received a £5,000 fee/budget to realise a new moving image work, alongside production and curatorial support from the FVU team and external mentors. Throughout the spring and summer, we have partnered with Arnolfini to bring these new works to audiences in the city, while also premiering on our free platform. ✨

A number of the artists will join FVU Director Angelica Sule and Arnolfini’s Head of Exhibitions Gemma Brace for an in-conversation exploring their work, creative approaches and experiences of taking part in FVU New Takes. Each of the commissioned works will be screening throughout the day in Arnolfini's Dark Studio.

The six selected artists — Mahdy Abo Bahat, Anna Engelhardt, Hantao Li, Morisha Moodley, Jameisha Prescod and Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner — bring bold and inventive approaches to storytelling and form, engaging with themes including the global climate crisis, crip filmmaking, body politics, state violence, archival memory, and contemporary trans+ and British culture.

📍 Arnolfini, Bristol
📅 17 September 2026
🕡 6:30pm - 7.30pm
🎟️ Book your free ticket: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/arnolfini/thu-17-sep-fvu-new-takes-artists-talk-159865

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📸 Morisha Moodley, 'Sideweighs and Backwords' (2026). Installation at Arnolfini, Bristol. Photography by Dan Weill

FVU New Takes is an FVU initiative supported by Jerwood Foundation. Film and Video Umbrella is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

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