Selected 16

Selected 16 presents a 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), the programme is touring leading arts venues across the UK.

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

Films in the programme:

– Chanthila Phaophanit, Beneath the Shell of Sound, 2026, 8:12 mins

– Che Applewhaite, I AM THE WORLD, 2022, 9:00 mins

– Chiemi Shimada, mmm, 2023, 7:06 mins

– Jack Guariento, Bellsmyre Caledonia, 2023, 6:34 mins

– Leena Habiballa, Dead as a Dodo, 2022, 5:18 mins

– Rhiana Bonterre, A Story, An Invocation, An Opening, 2025, 7:42 mins

– Rosanna Lee, Heart of the Lion 赤子獅心, 2026, 19 mins

– Viviana Almas, In Silence Seeds Weep, 2025, 1:48 mins

– Viviana Almas, Solus, 2025, 2:46 mins

More information on each artist and film can be found here.

This screening will be followed by a short in-conversation with Selected 16 artist and Falmouth graduate, Viviana Almas and CAST programme curator, Cat Bagg.

The event will take place in Lecture Theatre One at Falmouth School of Art. The lecture theatre is downstairs in the library building, just down the hill from the Woodlane entrance of Falmouth campus.