“How do i no ur not false?”
Jo Thompson
Writer Jo Thompson explores Rachel Maclean's Feed Me within the context of surveillance capitalism, highlighting traces of the fairytale narrative in our online behaviours.
Writing
Our projects are invariably accompanied by specially-commissioned texts, a selection of which are published here.
The Ghosts of Christmas Past
Steven Bode
As Rachel Maclean's Feed Me shows on FVU Watch, Steven Bode reflects on what we can learn from the film at Christmas amidst a pandemic.
States of Being
Emmie McLuskey
Emmie McLuskey unpacks our modern dependence technology, substances and ritual, as well as what it means to belong, in Cal Mac's Agony to Ecstasy.
Reman Sadani
Adnan Madani
Artist and writer Adnan Madani explores the allegorical within Reman Sadani's Walkout 1.
Guy Oliver
Louise Ashcroft
Louise Ashcroft ponders the conflicting voices in her head as she watches Guy Oliver's You Know Nothing of My Work.
Wuhan Punk
Steven Bode
Responding to Chris Zhongtian Yuan's Wuhan Punk, Steven Bode reflects on how the city of Wuhan was previously famous for being the hotbed of China's punk rock scene.
Unreal
Iris Long
Iris Long reflects on the machinations at play in Chris Zhongtian Yuan's Wuhan Punk, exploring the implications of restoring visual memory via the medium of film.
Great-ish: The Gaslighting of a Nation
Rianna Walcott
Rianna Walcott responds to De'Anne Crooks' Great-ish: The Gaslighting of a Nation, exploring the collective gaslighting of the Black community in Britain.
Patrick Staff: On Venus
Laura Jacobs
Laura Jacobs on hostile environments, both social and natural, in Patrick Staff’s ‘On Venus’ exhibition. Winner of the Michael O'Pray Prize 2019.
Image Abrasion
Cassandre Greenberg
Cassandre Greenberg considers Derek Jarman’s Blue as a celluloid artefact in an age of portable digital media. Winner of the Michael O'Pray Prize 2019.
FVU Frames: Sophie Cundale
Ellen O'Donohue Oddy
We sat down with Sophie Cundale to discuss the making of The Near Room and how she came upon the film's key concepts: Muhammad Ali's Near Room and Cotard Delusion.
Celebration (Cyprus Street)
Steven Bode
FVU Director Steven Bode reflects on the making of Celebration (Cyprus Street) as well as its relevance for today.
MASS
David Kwaw Mensah
David Kwaw Mensah considers how Nadeem Din-Gabisi's MASS can be categorised in the genre of Transcendental Cinema.
MASS: Artist’s Statement
Nadeem Din-Gabisi
Nadeem Din-Gabisi, writer and director of MASS, articulates the thinking and process behind his film.
Critical Mass
Steven Bode
FVU's Director Steven Bode reflects on our first film to premiere on FVU Watch: Nadeem Din-Gabisi's MASS.
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Something New
Ellen Mara De Wachter
Writer Ellen Mara De Wachter looks at the potential for newness within open source materials in the work of Open Music Archive.
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The Sentiment is in the Title
Paul Morley
Writer and broadcaster Paul Morley discusses the history of the UK charts, sampling and music distribution in the work of Open Music Archive.
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Radical archiving, parallel universes and déjà entendu
Ellen O'Donohue Oddy
This interview with Open Music Archive explores collective cultural consciousness and pop music.
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Everything We Have Goes Round
Steven Bode
Steven Bode reflects on Everything I Have is Yours by Open Music Archive.
Implicated
Natasha Hoare
Goldsmiths CCA curator Natasha Hoare explores the work of Richard Whitby and asks whos implicated in the UK immigration act.
Some notes on proximity and distance
Emily LaBarge
This creative-critical text responds to Webb-Ellis’s installation For The First Baby Born in Space.
Tipping Points
Steven Bode
FVU's Steven Bode discusses the cultural and historical contexts behind Elizabeth Price's FELT TIP.
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No Ordinary Protest
Cathy Lane
Professor Cathy Lane looks at the relationship between noise and narrative in Mikhail Karikis' No Ordinary Protest.
Unintended Consequences
George Vasey
George Vasey looks at the concept of the 'unintended concequence' in the work of Maeve Brennan and Imran Perretta.
Don’t Look at the Finger
Steven Bode
Director of FVU Steven Bode explores the concept of the 'first impression' in the work of Hetain Patel.
Something Along the Lines of Desire
Chantal Faust
Chantal Faust responds to Rob Crosse's Prime Time with a creative prose-poem exploring desire, intimacy and touch.
We Put The World Before You
Erika Balsom
Film theorist Erika Balsom takes a close-up of Jane and Louise Wilson's 2016 work We Put the World Before You.
A Half-Open Door
Laurence Scott
Writer Laurence Scott considers temporality in the 21st century, looking at the work of Alice May Williams and Karen Kramer.
Too Big To Miss
Steven Bode
Steven Bode picks through the postmatch data of the Rugby World Cup 2015 alongside Ravi Deprees' The Gain Line.
Thoughts about Things
Patrick Langley
Read Patrick Langley's response to Ben Rivers' Things, commissioned for FVU's Stay Where You Are project.
Local Time
Patrick Langley
Patrick Langley considers the concept of travel and its representation in Layla Curtis' Antipodes