Spike Island x Watershed: Selected 16

Selected 16 presents a vibrant collection of new short films by some of the most exciting early-career artists working today. These films were 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), this compelling programme tours leading arts venues across the UK.

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. Expect a rich mix of films that are playful, provocative, moving and surprising.

The films in the programme are: 

- 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

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