The event will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the international film and video art project that has connected artists and audiences across the UK, Hong Kong, and beyond.
Curated by UK-based videoclub and Dr. Isaac Leung (Hong Kong), this special anniversary programme will be presented at the Barbican Centre on 30 October 2025 at 7pm.
Over the last 10 years, Both Sides Now has explored shifting cultural landscapes through moving image, reflecting on how artists respond to political, technological, and societal change. This 10th edition of the event will bring together 10 significant works from the past ten years of the programme that reflect on themes such as media control, migration, memory, labour, and posthuman experience.
The featured artists and their work for this event are as follows:
Ellen Pau – Diversion (1990)
A landmark work reflecting on migration and memory in post-Tiananmen Hong Kong.
● Choi Sai Ho – The 1960s For Me (2015)
A poetic remix of 1960s pop culture and political change.
● Heather Phillipson – Splashy Phasings (2013)
Surreal collage mixing sonic fragments, emotional oversaturation, and parody.
● Angela Su – The Afterlife of Rosy Leavers (2017)
A hallucinatory sci-fi journey exploring identity and AI consciousness.
● Rachel Maclean – The Lion and the Unicorn (2012)
A satirical vision of Britishness and Scottish identity.
● Linda Lai – Doors Medley (2014)
A reworking of Hong Kong cinematic gestures through gender and repetition.
● Marianna Simnett – The Udder (2014)
Visceral, unsettling, and unforgettable — purity and control examined.
● Jake Elwes – Zizi & Me – Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) (2020)
A drag cabaret duet with an AI clone, queering human–machine relations.
● Joseph Chen – Copy is Right! (2016)
Playful, ironic critique of copyright, remix culture, and techno-capitalism.
● Lawrence Lek – Play Station (2017)
A virtual sci-fi narrative imagining a gamified workplace of the future.
To book tickets visit: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/experiments-in-film-both-sides-now-10