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Film and Video Umbrella commissions, produces and curates moving-image works by artists. For three decades FVU has led the way in championing new creative talent and promoting innovative ideas.
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Suki Chan
Sleep Walk Sleep Talk
We are delighted to be featuring Suki Chan's 2009 FVU-commissioned work Sleep Walk Sleep Talk on FVU Watch this month!A...
Dave Griffiths
Babel Fiche
Babel Fiche began as an online call for user-donated video content in which people’s singular and disparate perspectives on Life...
Julie Henry
This Sporting Life
Film and Video Umbrella presents Julie Henry’s 2002 film This Sporting Life on FVU Watch in memory of the late...
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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.
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