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Film and Video Umbrella commissions, curates and produces film, video and other moving-image works by artists which are presented in collaboration with galleries and other cultural partners across the UK.
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We are pleased to announce the second edition of the Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards: ‘What Will They See of Me’. Applications close 1 July.
This day-long conference casts a weather eye over the wider topic of ‘the future’ and wonders how our contemporary conception of it might differ from other stand-out moments in the not-too-distant past.
Commissioned for the ‘Estuary’ exhibition at Museum of London, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s ‘Portrait of a River’ is an evocative study of the sometimes overlooked, strangely indeterminate landscape through which the Thames cuts its sluggish, widening course on its journey out to sea.
A new film by the artists Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone, which makes compelling use of two contrasting but related locations…
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Thomson & Craighead in ‘NEVER ODD OR EVEN’ at Carroll/Fletcher Gallery, 24 May - 6 July
In this solo exhibition the artists play with data to create poetic, compelling works that ask fundamental questions about what it is to be human. Thomson & Craighead's Minigraph is available in Film and Video Umbrella's online bookshop.
Gayle Chong Kwan’s ‘The Golden Tide’ at Museum of London Docklands, 17 May – 27 October 2013
The 'Estuary' Exhibition brings together the work of 12 artists who have been inspired by the outer limits of the Thames. Gayle Chong Kwan's 'The Golden Tide', part of Film and Video Umbrella's online project 'Our Mutual Friends' features in the show.
In the Bookshop
Startle Torsten Lauschmann
This brand new print publication and companion app offers a suitably wide-ranging introduction to the multi-faceted video, audio, digital, sculptural, kinetic and performative work of Lauschmann. Book available to buy in our online bookshop now!
Going Nowhere Simon Faithfull
This publication highlights a number of Simon Faithfull’s journeys; all of which take us, in one way or other, to the edge of nothingness. ‘Going Nowhere’ is an indispensable point of entry into this artist’s distinctive and inventive work.
