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Anna Engelhardt
Cues (2026)

We are excited to launch Cues (2026) by Anna Engelhardt on FVU Watch this month, one of six new moving image works commissioned 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. The formulaic scenes from police training films and film noir are punctured by a near-human test figure that shadows the characters’ movements, pulling their choreography into view. Across these fragments, interrogation reads like rehearsal. Repeated often enough, its staged action turns into procedure.

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Cues (2026) will be on view at Arnolfini, Bristol from 12 May — 16 June 2026.

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Cues (2026) has been commissioned as part of FVU New Takes, an FVU initiative supported by Jerwood Foundation. FVU is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.