Selected 16

In a dimly lit bedroom, a person lies on a bed beneath a translucent mosquito net canopy. Blue moonlight enters through a large-paned window behind them, casting soft shadows across the room. Silhouettes of trees are visible outside, while the figure rests with one arm bent behind their head, creating a quiet, contemplative atmosphere. The image has a dreamlike, cinematic quality, with deep blues and soft focus enhancing the sense of solitude and reflection. — Chanthila Phaophanit, Beneath the Shell of Sound (2025), film still.

Selected 16 presents a vibrant collection of new short films by some of the most exciting early-career artists working in the UK today. Organised by videoclub and FLAMIN, the nine filmmakers were nominated by artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2025.

Bringing together nine distinctive artists' films, Selected 16 offers a snapshot of emerging 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.

The programme will tour to leading arts venues across the UK, including Towner Eastbourne, Offline, Spike Island, Nottingham Contemporary, Fabrica and CAST.