Since its initiation in 2018, The FLAMIN Fellowship has become central to the artists’ moving image ecology in the UK, nurturing the next generation of filmmakers and cutting-edge practices. Investing a total of £15,000 in artists' development bursaries, FLAMIN offers each artist £2,500 as and participate in a series of monthly workshops, delivered in partnership with leading moving image artists and a network of film and arts organisations.

The work of the 2025-2026 FLAMIN Fellows displays a wide range of approaches, including DIY audiovisual performance, archival documentary, animation and community filmmaking.

Alina Akbar is a filmmaker and storyteller working across moving image, photography and installation. Her practice is rooted in both the personal and collective experiences of people of colour, and is often developed through conversation and collaboration with her community and personal network.

Charlie Osborne is a Welsh artist based in London, who works across film, performance, writing, music and sculpture. Using structural systems similar to poetry, works are presented through sensations of a never-ending performance. The theatricality in her projects can be explained as an on-going circus patchwork of pain, where muggy misfits cause circulation of hope, humour and magic.

Dino Zhang is an artist filmmaker and researcher based in London and Shanghai. Employing an autoethnographic framework to retrace the past, he approaches his practice as inherently research-oriented, gathering cumulative materials and archives from his family and where he grew up. Through grieving, contemplating, and reconciliation with the contradictory discourses of the past, he examines socio-cultural history and how we can embody a burdened past.

Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan uses animation as an open space to bring combine a range of media including collage, music, documentary, poetry and live-action. Leaning into the accidental and unknown, he is interested in breaking the rules of animation and often draws upon discarded or unconventional materials, recently sticks, stones, walls, floors, street-signs, tape, and broken glass.

Guided by conversations and poetic gestures, Laisul Hoque’s practice explores autotheory through filmmaking and installation, with socially engaged modes of presentation that seek to uplift the individuals and communities connected to each project. Recent projects include a film that documents his mother’s first trip to London, made using a camera his father bought twenty years earlier to record his own journey through Europe.

Simon Hamlyn’s process-led approach to filmmaking utilises printmaking techniques to create hybrid analogue-digital experimental animated films. The common subject of his work involves exploring the complex mythologies behind our built environment, examining the stories and circumstances that underlie the spaces we inherit to re-present these moments in visceral animated vignettes. Hamlyn’s approach blends personal home-video aesthetics with surreal imagery, depicting the fluid and often unreliable nature of memory

The FLAMIN Fellowship 2025-2026 artists