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Now on FVU Watch: The Song (2022) by Bani Abidi

We’re excited to be re-presenting Bani Abidi’s 2022 FVU-commissioned work The Song on FVU Watch this month. Presented by Contemporary Art Society to Gallery Oldham, The Song has exhibited and screened nationally and internationally since it’s release — and is available for free on our website for a limited time only!

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Announcing The Open Road - a journey reimagined through moving image

Launching in Autumn 2025, The Open Road reimagines the age-old tale of a journey taken, weaving together new stories by three contemporary artists; David Blandy, Amaal Said, and Sam Williams.

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Announcing the FVU New Takes awarded artists

We are delighted to announce that our brilliant final cohort features Anna Engelhardt, Jameisha Prescod, Hantao Li, Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner, Morisha Moodley, and Mahdy Abo Bahat.

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Find out more about where FVU's commissioned works are being exhibited and screened in the UK and internationally

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An introduction to Film and Video Umbrella

You can now watch an introduction to the organisation’s history and ongoing programmes by FVU’s Director Angelica Sule

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Film and Video Umbrella commissions, produces and curates moving-image works by artists. For three decades FVU has led the way in championing new creative talent and promoting innovative ideas.

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Latest Projects

Hope Strickland

a river holds a perfect memory

Michael O'Pray Prize 2025

Rhea Storr

Subjects of State, Labours of Love

The Open Road

Gayle Chong Kwan

A Pocket Full of Sand

Daniel Cockburn

Ahead of the Curve

Hope Strickland

a river holds a perfect memory

Michael O'Pray Prize 2025

Rhea Storr

Subjects of State, Labours of Love

The Open Road

Gayle Chong Kwan

A Pocket Full of Sand

Daniel Cockburn

Ahead of the Curve

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Bani Abidi

The Song

We’re excited to be re-presenting Bani Abidi’s 2022 FVU-commissioned work The Song on #FVUWatch this month. Presented by Contemporary Art...

Julie Henry

This Sporting Life

This month Film and Video Umbrella will be presenting Julie Henry’s 2002 film This Sporting Life on FVU Watch, in...

Patrick Hough

And If In A Thousand Years

Patrick Hough’s 2017 FVU-commissioned work And If In A Thousand Years is our latest feature on FVU Watch. After the...

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Beer and Skittles

Steven Bode has written a new text reflecting on the expansive life and practice of late artist Julie Henry, alongside the creation of her FVU-commissioned work This Sporting Life (2002).

Lola Olufemi on Rhea Storr

Lola Olufemi's textual response uses objects, images and phrases found in Rhea Storr’s film Subjects of State, Labours of Love and weaves them together to create a textual meditation on work, ‘blackness’ and political transformation.

Commencement Speech

To accompany Patrick Hough's feature on FVU Watch, you can now read Naomi Pearce’s 2017 essay, Commencement Speech, commissioned as part of the catalogue for the Jerwood/ FVU Awards 2017, which took the form of a facsimile of fictitious documents.

The Screen is a Drum

Michael O'Pray Prize 2024 awardee E De Zulueta explores the delirious resistance of Mexican filmmakers Colectivo los ingrávidos

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