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Exhibition

Jerwood/FVU Awards 2020: Hindsight | Guy Oliver and Reman Sadani

The Jerwood/FVU Awards 2020: Hindsight exhibition opens this autumn at Jerwood Arts and online – see new works from artists Guy Oliver and Reman Sadani.

Project

Michael O'Pray Prize 2020

Apply now to the Michael O’Pray Prize – an award for new writing on innovation and experimentation in the moving image. Open to all early-career writers based in the UK and free to apply to.

Exhibition

Open Music Archive, Everything I Have Is Yours (2019)

This ambitious film and sound work by Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) is now showing on FVU Watch.

Watch

Simon Pope, Memory Marathon

The 2020 Olympics are on hold, but we're showing Simon Pope's film shot across the London boroughs that came to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Project

FVU's statement on anti-racism and Black Lives Matter

Read the statement in full here.

Watch

Karen Kramer, The Eye That Articulates Belongs on Land, 2016

Shot in the landscapes of Northern Japan and around the Fukushima nuclear plant, Kramer's film celebrates the power of nature to recover after a disaster

About

Film and Video Umbrella makes moving-image works by artists. For three decades FVU has led the way in championing new creative talent and promoting innovative ideas. During that time we have commissioned many of the foremost figures in the field, working in close collaboration with a diverse range of venues, nationally and internationally. Browse our project page to find out more and view clips of the works.

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Latest Projects

Michael O’Pray Prize 2020

Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022

BEYOND

Nadeem Din-Gabisi: MASS

Patrick Goddard: Animal Antics

Curatorial Practice Award #2

In the Bookshop

Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen: Portrait of a River

Simon Martin

Various Artists: Jerwood/FVU Awards 2015: ‘What Will They See Of Me?’

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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival presents some of the most distinctive cinema and artists’ films being made today + conversations, new writing and podcasts direct from Berwick-upon-Tweed! bit.ly/bfmafonline

Online, 17 September – 11 October 2020

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Mariam Ghani: What We Left Unfinished & Dis-Eas

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