The Open Road: Pilgrimage as a Practice of Attention
Declan Wiffen considers the connections and resonances that emerge between the three works commissioned for The Open Road.
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Our projects are invariably accompanied by specially-commissioned texts, a selection of which are published here.
Communist Dislocations
Runner-up for the Michael O'Pray Prize 2025: Oliver Dixon revisits the work of experimental documentary filmmakers
Opensecret
Runner-up for the Michael O'Pray Prize 2025: Emily Morley examines a new mode of distributed filmmaking
One must have blind faith in ideology
Winner of the Michael O'Pray Prize 2025: Ricardo Reverón Blanco on a Cuban filmmaker suppressed both at home and abroad
The City That Never Sleeps
Steven Bode reflects on Suki Chan’s Sleep Walk Sleep Talk as a haunting portrait of London at night, blending visuals and voices to explore urban life, alienation, and inner consciousness.
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 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.