Minor Attractions presents Intermissions, a showcase of work by the 2024-2025 FLAMIN Fellowship. The event features as part of Summer Sessions, a three-day festival staged across different venues in London.
The event will feature film, performance and games from:
Ama Dogbe
Nia Fekri
Harmeet Singh Rahal
Gregor Petrikovič
Yv Shells
Andy Xianyi Zhang
Intermissions
14:00 - 17:00
The Horse Hospital
Colonnade, Bloomsbury
London
WC1N 1JD
Hosted by Minor Attractions
Programme
14:00 - 14:15 Doors | Gregor Petrikovič, We all had the same dream (2026), installation
14:15 - 14:30 Introduction
14:30 - 14:50 Andy Xianyi Zhang, Dummy City (2026), screening and performance
14:50 - 15:15 Harmeet Singh Rahal, Chori Chori [CAMRip] (2023)+ Drone Down / A Song Against Ambience (2026), screening and performance
15:15 - 15:30 Break | Gregor Petrikovič, We all had the same dream (2026), installation
15:30 - 15:55 Ama Dogbe, I've Been Here, Somewhere (2026), game playthrough
15:55 - 16:10 Nia Fekri, I've Perfected Sleep Travel (2024-2026), screening and performance
16:10 - 16:35 Yv Shells
16:35 - 17:00 Close
Gregor Petrikovič
We all had the same dream (2026)
Single-channel video installation with sound; dimensions variable
We All Had The Same Dream is a video installation in which imagery of a recurring childhood dream is viewed through a Fresnel lens at close range. The work began with a social media post about the dream - and the 17,000 comments beneath it from strangers across the world who claim to have dreamed the same thing.
Presented with a continuous sound piece, the installation explores collective unconscious experience, the impossibility of individual agency against overwhelming scale, and what it means to discover your most interior life reflected back through a screen.
Andy Xianyi Zhang
Dummy City (2026)
Single-channel film, 10 minutes. Work-in-progress.
What made us who we are today: the facts of the matter, or the memories we invented? Made after discovering a lost journal, Andy Xianyi Zhang’s new work explores two parallel fictions: the fabrication of memory and the construction of the self. Filtered through the hallucinatory lens of nostalgia, the film transports the viewer into a world of plush toys, called ‘Dummy City’.
The film screening will be preceded by a 5 minute game performance.
Harmeet Singh Rahal
Chori Chori [CAMRip] (2023)
Single-channel film, 10 minutes.
Chori Chori [CAMRip] is a bootleg Bollywood love story. Slipping between frame-by-frame animation, live-action, and archival footage, this fictional pirated film explores what it means to be consigned to remembrance: existing only as illicit distribution, glimmers of heartbreak, and WhatsApp voice memos from faraway friends.
Drone Down / A Song Against Ambience (2026)
Performance, 5 minutes.
Inspired by an event during the 2024 Farmers’ Protests in Punjab and Haryana in North India, which saw farmers using innovative tactics to counteract police measures. Authorities deployed drones to drop tear gas on protesters, leading farmers to fly kites to down the drones and neutralize the tear gas. With this song, the artist explores how viewing footage of resistance transforms our psyche, and how, even from afar, we dream of being part of something bigger than ourselves.
Ama Dogbe
I've Been Here, Somewhere (2026)
Videogame demo. 20 minute interactive gameplay session.
I’ve Been Here, Somewhere is a new demo that responds to Ama Dogbe’s research on collecting, hoarding and the politics of knowledge – who keeps it, how it circulates, and how value is placed upon it. The demo creates an immersive environment that is both a world and a living archive, creating space for the people and things that might otherwise be forgotten.
The gameplay session will be bookended by two short edits of the artist's personal family archive which she has recently digitised.
Nia Fekri
I've Perfected Sleep Travel (2023)
Single-channel film, 10 minutes.
This film is comprised of NASA images of Martian bedrock and night-cam footage from wild life preservation organisations of endangered leopards near Urumieh Lake. Once the largest lake in the Middle East, it is now a desert landscape due to corrupt dam building practices. The film reveals how personal grief, environmental loss and the limitations on our possible futures are a direct consequences of state misconduct.
Iteration II: I've Perfected Sleep Travel (2026)
16mm film and performance, 5 minutes.
Using 16mm negatives from two previous projects, the artist brings together two characters – the listener and the sleeper – who transmit audio signals to communicate through seawater and volcanic rock.
Yv Shells
Untitled (FROG) (2026)
Performance, 25 minutes.
In many ways rehearsals and performances for musicians, actors and dancers are an imitation of life at large. At home we remove our masks but in the outside world people, places and paraphernalia force us into different personas. In order to investigate how I specifically change when I am performing versus when I am alone or rehearsing, I will perform songs from my upcoming EP "FROG" against a backdrop of rehearsal footage. The audience will be invited to record it and contribute to a new work in response to this one-off performance.
The FLAMIN Fellowshipis a major development programme for early-career artist filmmakers living in England. Part of Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), the Fellowship aims to support the most exciting, innovative and challenging moving image practices from filmmakers at the early stages of their careers, with development and funding for new work.
Minor Attractions Summer Sessions is a new multi-venue festival highlighting music, performance, publishing and film. Staged in a different part of London each day, the festival will collaborate with a host of venues across the city, engaging with local and varied creative communities to showcase the best of emerging culture.
