Special Event

Selected 16

2 September 2026
6:30pm
£5

A screening of bold new artists’ moving image works from across the UK.

A screening of bold new artists’ moving image works from across the UK.

Selected 16 presents a vibrant collection of new short films by some of the most exciting early-career artists working today, nominated by artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2025 - Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah, Morgan Quaintance, George Finlay Ramsay and Hope Strickland. Curated by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), this compelling programme tours leading arts venues across the UK.

Bringing together nine distinctive artists' films, Selected 16 offers a snapshot of early career artists’ moving image practice today. Across documentary, essay film, experimental cinema and analogue filmmaking, the programme explores themes of memory, identity, ecology, migration, community and belonging.

From haunted landscapes and ancestral histories to collective rituals, activist perspectives and personal acts of remembrance, the selected works reveal the breadth, ambition and urgency of contemporary moving image practice across the UK. They reflect how artists are responding to the social, political and environmental realities of the present moment through innovative approaches to film and storytelling. Selected 16 artists are: Chanthila Phaophanit, Che Applewhaite, Chiemi Shimada, Jack Guariento, Leena Habiballa, Rhiana Bonterre, Rosanna Lee and Viviana Almas.

Expect a rich mix of films that are playful, provocative, moving and surprising.

Films in the programme:

- Chanthila Phaophanit, Beneath the Shell of Sound, 2026, 8 mins 12 secs- Che Applewhaite, I AM THE WORLD, 2022, 9 mins- Chiemi Shimada, mmm, 2023, 7 mins 06 secs- Jack Guariento, Bellsmyre Caledonia, 2023, 6mins 34 secs- Leena Habiballa, Dead as a Dodo, 2022, 5mins 18 secs- Rhiana Bonterre, A Story, An Invocation, An Opening, 2025, 7mins 42 secs- Rosanna Lee, Heart of the Lion 赤子獅心, 2026, 19 mins- Viviana Almas, In Silence Seeds Weep, 2025, 1 min 48 secs- Viviana Almas, Solus, 2025, 2mins 46 secs

This event is presented by Broadway's Near Now in collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary.

Selected 16 is produced by videoclub and FLAMIN. Supported by Arts Council England and Film London.

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This event is hosted at Broadway Cinema, NG1 3AL in collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary.

For more information on Broadway’s venue accessibility click here or phone Broadway on 0115 9 526 611

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