Screen Archive South East

Next weekend a pop-up screening at a pop-up museum! Haywards Heath captured on film by amateur film-makers and the Haywards Heath Cine & Video Society - footage of the town and environs from the 1910s to 1980s. Pop-in - free entry!

Final couple of weeks left to catch Play Back Forward at Hove Museum of Creativity and experience Portals, a 3 channel video installation by Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin. Portals combines archive, found footage, hand drawn super 8 film and new material and responses made by the artists and young people who took part in The Wonder Club, an experimental film club that took place monthly at the museum. Portals, is an immersive passage into the unsettled rhythms of cinema. Here, time stretches, folds, and repeats; fragments of memory collide, and images flicker between light, shadow, and celluloid. Visitors are invited to pause, recline, and drift within these shifting visions, where film becomes a threshold to other ways of seeing and sensing. Sound composition by James Unsworth & Ruairidh Carpenter Films by James Williamson, George Albert Smith and Laura Bayley repurposed in this video work. Courtesy of Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton and BFI National Archive. Play Back Forward is part of the three-year programme Days of Wonder curated and produced by videoclub and Corridor in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East, with support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England, and BFI/Film Hub South East. @annisjoslin @kimia.collective @videoclub_uk @corridorproj @brighton_museums @screenarchivese @filmhubse @clairewearn @HeritageFundUK @aceagrams . . . . #movingimage #earlyfilm #filmeducation #videoinstallation #artistfilm

Free events for National Lottery Open Week at the Palace Cinema Broadstairs (U) Broadstairs, Margate & Ramsgate on Film Sat 7 March 14:00-15:15 free with a lottery ticket Explore the history of Broadstairs, Margate and Ramsgate as filming locations - an illustrated talk with clips, from newsreel to spy drama to EMPIRE OF LIGHT, and from tales of modern life to musicals and romcoms, plus historic archive footage from our archive. #ThanksToYou

Fascinating to see the results of @jess_starns and @wardsanimation Double Act at Hove Museum - VR of G.A.Smith and Laura Bayley's filmmaking history at the turn of the 20th century. Thanks to Days of Wonder @videoclub_uk @aceagrams

New exhibition on British Caledonian Airways at Crawley Museum - sure to be of interest to many locals and ex-employees. On from 5 Feb 2026 - 28 March (Thu, Fri, Sat 10.30-4pm). Seen here footage of the airline in its first year of operations at Gatwick in 1971 - filmed by Bob Bamberough, Horsham resident and keen amateur filmmaker. #aviationhistory #airlinehistory #BCal

It’s the last week to catch my installation and film Commons at @theamelia_tw in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on view until this Sunday 11th January! You can also catch it online @filmvidumbrella with an insightful essay by Declan Wiffen @lichencamp Commons is a @filmvidumbrella commission by @david_blandy_ a film of deep time, shared stories and common futures. Inspired by Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the film reimagines the pilgrimage as a modern matrix of stories, exploration of land, memory, and coexistence. Told through the perspectives of animals, fossils, and a broken mobile phone, Commons is a layered visual tapestry that connects past and present, human and non-human, through stories rooted in the local landscape. 🙏 @creativesoutheast @alexz_jackson @landskein @bric_a_brac_eddie @mikejonesfvu @angelica_sule @screenarchivese @studionicolajeffs @seventeengallery Big thanks also to my voiceover artists, Mike Bracken @bracken_mikey Trevor magaya and Georgia Casimi. Image Credits @reecestraw 🙌 🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴 Commons is co-commissioned by @filmvidumbrella & @theamelia_tw as part of the programme for The Open Road - a series of new artists moving image works reimagining the age-old tale of a journey taken, weaving together new stories loosely inspired by Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. With support from @aceagrams Arts Council England @the_beaney The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury & @screenarchivese Screen Archive South East. The Open Road reimagines the age-old tale of a journey taken, weaving together new stories by three contemporary artists; David Blandy, Amaal Said, and Sam Williams. Co-commissioned by @filmvidumbrella @theamelia_tw @cementfields @film_london FormaHQ @formaartsmedia and Three Rivers @threeriversbexley 📍The Amelia Scott, Mount Pleasant Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1AW *By train from London: Charing Cross (58 mins) Waterloo East (54 mins) & London Bridge (49 mins) ⏰ Monday – Friday: 9:00am – 6:00pm, Saturday: 9:00am – 5:00pm , Sunday: 10:00am – 4:00pm

Tomorrow eve Friday 12 Dec, Figment Arts will help to 'Light Up Shoreham' with archive film of Shoreham from the 1950s onwards projected onto the wall of the historic Marlipins Museum. All part of Port Stories the Historic England funded project to explore the history of Shoreham Port capturing memories and stories of the people who lived and worked there. Find out more here: .uk/project/port-stories/ #shorehambysea #archivefilm #everydayheritage

Lovely new gallery space @brighton_museums - seen here at the community thank you event on Wednesday. New exhibition: Passion, Power & Protest - supported by SASE archive contributions for passion and protest - Brighton content feat. Sussex People's Communist march in the 30s, and from the mid 60s a campaign against parking charges, the National Union of Railwaymen protest, and CND in central Brighton .

Vision Chamber is a new art work by Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin featuring in Play Back Forward. It weaves together fragments of early films by the Hove Pioneers with new footage captured through a handmade cardboard camera obscura and recorded digitally. The video sits within a sculptural object echoing the geometry of both a camera obscura and the metal structures supporting Brighton pier. Vision Chamber features films by Laura Bayley, George Albert Smith and James Williamson who were part of the group of early film pioneers of Brighton and Hove working in the city in the late 1890s. The films repurposed in this video work courtesy of Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton and BFI National Archive. See this work and much more until 12 April… Play Back Forward Hove Museum of Creativity, BN3 4AB Free Admission Open: Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 10am – 5pm Play Back Forward is part of the three-year programme Days of Wonder curated and produced by videoclub and Corridor in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East, with support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England, and BFI/Film Hub South East. Thanks to Jim Kirby for install photography✨ @jimkirby_photo 📽️ Annis Joslin and Chahine Fellahi @annisjoslin @kimia.collective @videoclub_uk @corridorproj @brighton_museums @screenarchivese @filmhubse @HeritageFundUK @aceagrams . . . . #movingimage #earlyfilm #filmeducation#youngfilmmakers #brightonmuseum #film#filmmaking #artistfilm #zoetrope #foley#animation #super8film #cameraobscura #immersiveinstallations #earlyfilm #filmeducation #videoart

Screening this Friday 10th October at the Depot Cinema, Lewes 'Two Way Ticket' the story of the Pestalozzi children's village in Sedlescombe, East Sussex which offered education to children in need from around the world. For the British Film Institute's Study Day 'Life in Modern Britain: migration, identity, and democracy - a KS3/4 cross-curricular study Day using archive film. Next Study Days are at Watershed, Bristol 27 Nov then Jan/Feb 2026 at Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds and Sheffield Showroom. To book email: [email protected]

Now open! Play Back Forward Hove Museum of Creativity 4 Oct–12 April Free Admission Opening times: Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am – 5pm Play Back Forward presents new work by Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin, involving participants from The Wonder Club. The exhibition celebrates the playful ingenuity of pioneering filmmakers George Albert Smith, Laura Bayley, and James Williamson who were developing their craft in Brighton and Hove at the turn of the 20th century. The exhibition includes new moving image work, photography, flip books, playing cards, optical illusions, interactive artworks and an immersive video installation. Play Back Forward is part of the three-year programme Days of Wonder curated and produced by videoclub and Corridor in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East, with support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England, and BFI/Film Hub South East. Thanks to Jim Kirby for install photography✨ @jimkirby_photo @annisjoslin @kimia.collective @videoclub_uk @corridorproj @brighton_museums @screenarchivese @filmhubse @HeritageFundUK @aceagrams . . . . #movingimage #earlyfilm #filmeducation#youngfilmmakers #brightonmuseum #film#filmmaking #artistfilm #zoetrope #foley#animation #super8film #cameraobscura #immersiveinstallations #earlyfilm #filmeducation #videoart

🎬 Play Back Forward is now open at Hove Museum of Creativity! Perfect for a lazy Monday or a weekend visit. Discover film, art & creativity while our other venues are closed today. 📍 Open Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday 📅 Free entry @annisjoslin @kimia.collective @videoclub_uk @corridorproj @screenarchivese @filmhubse @heritagefunduk @aceagrams