Marianna Simnett's FVU-commissioned film 'The Udder' (2014) features as part of Videoclub's Both Sides Now 10 – USA, UK & Hong Kong programme.
Both Sides Now 10 marks a decade of collaboration between videoclub (UK) and Videotage (Hong Kong), presenting a vibrant international programme of moving image works by artists from the UK and Hong Kong. This landmark tenth edition reflects on ten years of creative dialogue, curatorial exchange, and cultural exploration through artists’ film and video.
About Marianna Simnett's The Udder:
If childhood is a land of milk and honey, it is also a place of demons and ghosts. In Marianna Simnett’s short film The Udder, the mammary gland of the title doubles as a kind of memory machine that plugs us directly into that heightened, reverberant universe. Shot on a robot dairy farm in rural Sussex, and conjuring extraordinary performances from the people who live and work there, Simnett’s magic-realist tale considers the increasingly technical process of automated milk production as the site of an elemental struggle between the forces of purification and corruption; forces that loom equally large over a much more personal rite of passage, in which halcyon innocence is shadowed and clouded by the uncertainties of puberty.
Screenings take place in the USA during September and in the UK and Hong Kong during October 2025.
USA screenings
Artists Television Access, San Francisco
Date and time: Friday, 5th September 2025 – 7pm doors, 7:30pm screening
Address: 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Tickets: Free entry – find out more
Boathouse Microcinema, Portland
Date and time: Sunday, 7th September 2025 at 7:30pm doors, 8pm screening
Address: 822 N River Street, Portland, Oregon 97227
Tickets: Free entry, no need to book – find out more
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle
Date and time: Thursday, 11th September 2025 at 7pm
Address: 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
Tickets: $15 general / $10 concession / $7 NWFF members – book tickets now
UK screenings
Fabrica Gallery, Brighton
Date and time: Tuesday, 21 October 2025 at 6pm doors, 6:30pm screening
Address: 40 Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG
Tickets: £4 – book tickets now
Bloc Projects, Sheffield
Date and time: Thursday, 23rd October 2025 at 6-7:30pm
Address: 71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield S1 4RB
Tickets: Suggested donation amount is £4 – £6, though no-one will be turned away from the screening due to lack of funds – book tickets now
Barbican Centre, London
Date and time: Thursday, 30th October 2025, 7pm
Address: Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Tickets: £13 – book tickets now
Hong Kong screening
Current Plans, Hong Kong
Date and time: Friday 24 October 2025, 7pm
Address: 3F, Remex Centre, 12 Heung Yip Rd, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
Films in the exhibition and screenings
- Joseph Chen, Copy is Right!, 2016 – 3:27 mins
- Choi Sai Ho, The 1960s For Me, 2015 – 5:23 mins
- Jake Elwes, Zizi & Me – Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better), 2020 – 4:55 mins
- Linda Chiu-han Lai, Doors Medley, 2014 – 7:00 mins
- Lawrence Lek, Play Station, 2017 – 7:50 mins
- Rachel Maclean, The Lion and the Unicorn, 2012 – 12:00 mins
- Ellen Pau, Diversion, 1990 – 5:30 mins
- Heather Phillipson, Splashy Phasings, 2013 – 2:39 mins
- Marianna Simnett, The Udder, 2014 – 15:30 mins
- Angela Su, The Afterlife of Rosy Leavers, 2017 – 14:35 mins
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Commissioned for the Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards: What Will They See of Me? A collaboration between Jerwood Arts and FVU. In association with Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow and University of East London, School of Arts and Digital Industries. FVU is supported by Arts Council England.
