Applications are now open until 16 June 2026!

Now in its 10th edition, the Michael O’Pray Prize is an award for new writing on innovation and experimentation in the moving image. The prize is open to all early-career writers based in the UK and is free to apply to. The Judging Panel includes Mimi Howard, Lola Olufemi, Georgina Starr, Chris McCormack, and Angelica Sule.

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We are excited to launch Cues by Anna Engelhardt on FVU Watch this month 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. 

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Film and Video Umbrella, Somerset House Studios and HOME Manchester are pleased to announce a newly commissioned film and installation by artist Jenkin Van Zyl.

Enclosure is an immersive film installation that explores a culture where technological advancement has outpaced our ability to make sense of it. 

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•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• is an ambitious multimedia installation at Tramway, Glasgow by artist Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 that evokes a sub-aquatic world shaped according to the ancestral logics of the Song family, which serves simultaneously as spectacle, memorial and refuge. The exhibition features new moving image works commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella.

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

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