As another eventful year draws to a close we reflect on the highlights of the past twelve months and look ahead to new FLAMIN activity planned for 2008.

At the beginning of the year FLAMIN held the first in a new ongoing series of artists’ screenings at the recently redeveloped BFI Southbank. The events featured artist retrospectives and premieres of newly completed LAFVA works by the likes of Andrew Kötting, Carol Morley and Hannah Collins, alongside Q&As with the artists. These events have been continually well received, offering an important platform for bringing artists’ film to a wider audience and we hope to continue the screenings in the New Year.

Outside of London, in May, previous LAFVA awardee Zarina Bhimji was short listed for Turner Prize in Liverpool, for an exhibition of photographs from her ongoing series 'Love' (1998 - 2006), shown at Haunch of Venison in Zurich and London. And in June, Anna Lucas’ LAFVA-funded Kaff Mariam and Uña de Gato were shown as part of Lucas’ solo exhibition ‘Here and Your Here’, at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool.

In Bristol FLAMIN’s Bristol Mean Time Residency, in partnership with Picture This, was awarded to emerging London-based artist Emily Wardill. Emily embarked on the three month residency in July, producing a major new work Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck. Sick Serena… premiered at the London Film Festival in October as part of the Experimenta programme and was subsequently shown at Picture This in Bristol and London’s ICA.

Over the autumn months a number of LAFVA-funded works premiered at London galleries, including Michael Curran’s Look What They’ve Done to My Song at Matt’s Gallery and Saskia Olde Wolbers’ Deadline at Maureen Paley.

2007 also saw the development of The City Speaks, a major new collaborative project between FLAMIN and BBC Radio Drama. Six artist / writer teams have each produced 14 minute collaborative audio / visual instalments based on a narrative framework devised by writer Peter Ackroyd. The finished radio plays and their accompanying films will be broadcast as two 45 minute radio dramas on Radio 4 in Spring 2008.

Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network will be announcing a major new prize for moving image in early 2008.

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