FVU New Takes

28 Feb-4 Oct 2026

Overview

Running throughout spring and summer Arnolfini will be celebrating ambitious new talent in moving image, partnering with Film and Video Umbrella to present FVU New takes. Presented in our Dark Studio, each month, New Takes will showcase a newly commissioned work by one of six early-career artists working in moving image. The featured artists – Mahdy Abo Bahat, Anna Engelhardt, Hantao Li, Morisha Moodley, Jameisha Prescod and Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner – offer bold and inventive approaches to storytelling and form, addressing a plethora of contemporary themes including ‘the global climate crisis, crip filmmaking, body politics, state violence, archival memory, and contemporary trans+ and British culture’. Employing diverse practical techniques, from analogue film to 3D animation, these works highlight the breadth and ambition of the UK’s emerging moving-image landscape.