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The Cornubian Arts and Science Trust

The Cornubian Arts and Science Trust fosters creativity and collaboration in Cornwall by supporting artists and communities through workshops, exhibitions, and discussions, aiming to inspire and engage diverse audiences in the arts and sciences.

Selected 16 presents a collection of new short films by some of the most exciting early career artists working today, nominated by artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2025 &ndash; Arwa Aburawa &amp; Turab Shah, Morgan Quaintance, George Finlay Ramsay and Hope Strickland. Curated by videoclub and Film London Artists&rsquo; Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), the programme is touring leading arts venues across the UK. The selected works reveal the breadth, ambition and urgency of contemporary moving image practice across the UK. &nbsp;From haunted landscapes and ancestral histories to collective rituals, activist perspectives and personal acts of remembrance, they reflect how artists are responding to the social, political and environmental realities of the present moment through innovative approaches to film and storytelling. The Selected 16 artists are: Chanthila Phaophanit, Che Applewhaite, Chiemi Shimada, Jack Guariento, Leena Habiballa, Rhiana Bonterre, Rosanna Lee and Viviana Almas. Films in the programme: &ndash; Chanthila Phaophanit, Beneath the Shell of Sound, 2026, 8:12 mins&ndash; Che Applewhaite, I AM THE WORLD, 2022, 9:00 mins&ndash; Chiemi Shimada, mmm, 2023, 7:06 mins&ndash; Jack Guariento, Bellsmyre Caledonia, 2023, 6:34 mins&ndash; Leena Habiballa, Dead as a Dodo, 2022, 5:18 mins&ndash; Rhiana Bonterre, A Story, An Invocation, An Opening, 2025, 7:42 mins&ndash; Rosanna Lee, Heart of the Lion&nbsp;赤子獅心, 2026, 19 mins&ndash; Viviana Almas, In Silence Seeds Weep, 2025, 1:48 mins&ndash; Viviana Almas, Solus, 2025, 2:46 mins This screening will be followed by a short in-conversation with Selected 16 artist and Falmouth graduate, Viviana Almas and CAST programme curator, Cat Bagg. The event will take place in Lecture Theatre One at Falmouth School of Art. The lecture theatre is downstairs in the library building, just down the hill from the Woodlane entrance of Falmouth campus.

Selected 16 | Screening and artist in-conversation

Caf&eacute; supper from 6pm Introduction and screening, after supper, from around 7.15pm Booking essential Artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers creates intimate portrayals of solitary beings or isolated communities, using a documentary style as a starting point from which to imagine alternative narratives and existences in marginal worlds.Ben Rivers&rsquo;s new feature film Mare&rsquo;s Nest&nbsp;follows a young girl called Moon, who travels through a mysterious world free of adults. The film is currently touring the South West and will be shown at several cinemas in Cornwall in the days leading up to Rivers&rsquo;s visit to Helston. &nbsp; For this special evening at CAST, Ben Rivers has put together a selection of exceptional and rarely seen short films (including one of his own) that reflect on childhood experiences in different ways. He will introduce the films and there will be an opportunity for questions following the screenings. The House is Black, 1963 - Forugh Farrokhzad (22 min)Ah, Liberty!, 2008 - Ben Rivers (19 min)The Horse, 1973 - Charles Burnett (14 min) The House is Black is the only film directed by the noted feminist poet Forugh Farrokhzad and has been credited as being a forerunner of the Iranian New Wave. The film features footage from the Bababaghi Hospice leper colony, creating a picture of an enclosed and restricted society. Farrokhzad&#39;s narration includes quotes from the Old Testament and the Qur&#39;an, as well as her own poetry. After shooting this film she adopted a child from the colony, her son Hossein. Shot in a remote area of Scotland,&nbsp;Ah Liberty! portrays a family&rsquo;s place in the wilderness, outside of time &ndash; featuring free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within a sublime landscape. The work aims at an idea of freedom, reflected in the hand-processed Scope format, which is undercut by a sense of foreboding. There&rsquo;s no particular story, beginning, middle or end, just fragments of lives lived, rituals performed.&nbsp; Director Charles Burnett has described The Horse as a &lsquo;kind of allegory of the South&rsquo;. Made whilst the acclaimed filmmaker was still a student, this short film follows a young African American boy on the farm of a white family, as he keeps a horse during its last moments of life. The Horse offers a lyrical and poignant portrayal, contrasting the callousness of adults with the empathy of children.&nbsp;Mare&rsquo;s Nest will be shown&nbsp;at the Verdant Taproom, Penryn on Tuesday 22 September, The Regal, Redruth on Thursday 24 September, The Ritz, Penzance on Tuesday 29 September, and The Poly, Falmouth on Wednesday 30 September.&nbsp; Ben Rivers was born in Somerset, and studied at Falmouth School of Art in the 1990s. He now lives and works in London. He led the third Cornwall Workshop, organised with Lux and held at Kestle Barton in 2016. CAST&rsquo;s Artist Choice events begin with a convivial supper at CAST Caf&eacute;. Tickets include a delicious vegetarian or vegan main and dessert. The Caf&eacute; doors open at 6pm. Service is from the counter and drinks are available to purchase. When everyone has finished eating someone from CAST&rsquo;s team will invite you to move through to our black box screening space for the introduction and screening. For more information, see our <a fr-original-style="text-align: start;" href="https://castcornwall.art/faqs/" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">FAQs</a>.

An evening of short films introduced by Ben Rivers

Neptune Frost introduced by Libita Sibungu&nbsp; Caf&eacute; supper from 6pm Introduction and screening, after supper, from around 7.15pm Booking essential Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturist sci-fi musical set between an otherworldly techno-scrapheap in Burundi and a futuristic Rwandan coltan mine. It follows the relationship between Neptune, an intersex runaway, and Matalusa, an escaped coltan miner. Together they become the leaders of an anti-capitalist collective who hack the system to stage a revolt against the authoritarian regime. Directed by actor-playwright Anisia Uzeyman and poet-musician Saul Williams, the film moves through fluorescent dream sequences brimming with glitchy cyberpunk characters, as it explores themes of economic inequality, political enforcement and capitalism, and the role of technology as both oppressor and liberator. Neptune Frost has been selected by Libita Sibungu. Libita is a multidisciplinary artist who draws on her British-Namibian-Cornish heritage to make work that explores entangled personal histories and collective colonial legacies inscribed in the body and land. Her solo exhibition, ZED LOVE, is currently open at The Exchange in Penzance, and will close on 31 October 2026. CAST&rsquo;s Artist Choice events begin with a convivial supper at CAST Caf&eacute;. Tickets include a delicious vegetarian or vegan main and dessert. The Caf&eacute; doors open at 6pm. Service is from the counter and drinks are available to purchase. When everyone has finished eating someone from CAST&rsquo;s team will invite you to move through to our black box screening space for the introduction and screening. For more information, see our <a fr-original-style="text-align: start;" href="https://castcornwall.art/faqs/" id="isPasted" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">FAQs</a>.

Artist Choice | Libita Sibungu introduces Neptune Frost

On Sunday 15 March we are holding a special event at CAST, inviting former Cornwall Workshop participants and artist friends to join the current workshop group. CAST will be open from 2pm to provide an opportunity to see Ane Hjort Guttu&#39;s film Manifesto, 2020 (27 mins), which will run on a loop until 4pm.&nbsp; From 2.30 to 3.30pm Adam Chodzko will lead a round-table discussion, sharing some of the ideas he is exploring as part of a practice-led PhD on the collective nocturnal dreams of a community. At 4pm we will gather in the black box for a screening of two films by Ane Hjort Guttu, Freedom Requires Free People, made in 2011, and its sequel, Conversation, made in 2021. The films will be introduced by Ane, with time for discussion and questions.&nbsp; CAST Caf&eacute; will serve supper from 6.30pm, &pound;15 for two courses, something hot and something sweet. (The food will be vegetarian with vegan and gluten free options).&nbsp;

Cornwall Workshop Artist Gathering

Caf&eacute; supper from 6pm Talk after supper, from around 7.15pm Booking essential CAST&rsquo;s evening events begin with a convivial supper at CAST Caf&eacute;. Tickets include a delicious vegetarian or vegan main and dessert. The Caf&eacute; doors open at 6pm. Service is from the counter and drinks are available to purchase. When everyone has finished eating someone from CAST&rsquo;s team will invite you to move through to our black box screening space for the event. For more information, see our <a fr-original-style="text-align: start;" href="https://castcornwall.art/faqs/" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">FAQs</a>.

Jeremy Millar on the work of Roman Signer

Caf&eacute; supper from 6pm Introduction and screening, after supper, from around 7.15pm Booking essential Honeyland is described by The Guardian as an &lsquo;astonishing, immersive environmental documentary&rsquo;. Shot over the course of three years, it follows the life of Hatidže Muratova, one of the last women in Europe to employ traditional methods of harvesting honey from wild bees. Hatidže and her mother are the only remaining inhabitants of their remote Macedonian mountain village until the arrival of nomadic rancher Hussein Sam and his large family, who bring with them a herd of imported cattle. Hussein takes an interest in wild beekeeping and Hatidže begins to instruct him. However, he does not follow Hatidže&rsquo;s advice to share the honey with the bees, &lsquo;half for them, half for me&rsquo;. This film has been selected by Ben Coombs, chef patron of CAST Caf&eacute;. Honeyland had its UK premiere at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London during Ben&rsquo;s time as head chef there; the film and Hatidže Muratova&rsquo;s story have stayed with Ben since the event, making it a natural choice for his Artist&rsquo;s Choice screening. Ben has been a chef for nearly twenty years, having previously helped set up and run Argoe in Newlyn, acting as head chef for four years, and held the position of head chef at renowned restaurant Rochelle Canteen, at both its ICA and Shoreditch locations, prior to moving to Cornwall. CAST&rsquo;s Artist Choice events begin with a convivial supper at CAST Caf&eacute;. Tickets include a delicious vegetarian or vegan main and dessert. The Caf&eacute; doors open at 6pm. Service is from the counter and drinks are available to purchase. When everyone has finished eating someone from CAST&rsquo;s team will invite you to move through to our black box screening space for the introduction and screening. For more information, see our <a fr-original-style="text-align: start;" href="https://castcornwall.art/faqs/" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">FAQs</a>.

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Jeremy Millar on the work of Roman Signer

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