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. 

To mark the start of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, we are showcasing FVU’s recent collaboration with the artist Ravi Deepres on FVU Watch. Commissioned for the public screens at the various stadia that are hosting the Games and for other sites across the city, the three short films that make up Origin are a tribute to the dreams and aspirations of young athletes and a vivid snapshot of the diverse backdrop of contemporary Birmingham.

In this further exploration of the themes of biodiversity and species extinction first mooted in his online project Natural Error, Rodell Warner, in the company of writer Jacob Sam-La Rose, considers the threats to the biosphere of a warming planet from the vantage point of the parallel virtual universe of Second Life.

Craig David Parr’s Wings of Love is a Gothic mystery tale that meanders from hazy memories of a once-ubiquitous popular painting to shadowy auguries of a sinister subterranean psychogeography before it mushrooms and mutates into a weird witches’ brew of pagan Magick and millennial conspiracy theory.
 

Soojin Chang’s BXBY is a radical, semi-fictional work which explores the fusion of interspecies life.

Michael.’s installation cleave to the BLACK depicts the continuing legacy of Black male experience through the form of a moving-image triptych.