Fine Art Shorts is a showcase of student moving image. Twenty-four of our Kingston School of Art Fine Art students from first year BA through to the MA are showing videos ranging from three seconds to five minutes, including documentary, mockumentary, found footage, narrative fiction, animation and experimental practice.
Artists: Antonio Bourouphael, Benjamin Braidwood, Billy Clarke, Catherine Ruth Jones, Daisy Hatch, Dhillon Kaur, Eli Paternoster, Eret Harrison, Evie McQuillan, George Stokes, Harriet Lea, Joné Esterhuysen, Leshui Li, Luca Cotton, Millie McGarry, Nidaa Sagar, Oli Kettles, Petra Chetwynd, Renee Rautio, Siyuan Yun, Ted Pearson, Will Sharp, Yifu Ruan, Yixin Wang
This celebration of ambitious and innovative screen based works is supported by Stanley Picker Gallery and LUX.
Antonio Bourouphael CONDITIONED / @antonio.bourouphael
A body caught between performance and collapse. Veiled, breathless, suspended somewhere between endurance and disappearance. A movement piece tracing the quiet violence of discipline, repetition, and the need to keep going.
Benjamin Braidwood You are now watching some Bullshit / @bbraidwoodart
A video to be watched by some people.
Billy Clarke BIRDS / @Chiezbrgr
An Observational film about birds in the man made landscape. The blend between nature and man made.
Catherine Ruth Jones
Daisy Hatch gesture / @unapologeticallywriting
“dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.” – Sylvia Plath.
gesture is an exploration of great feeling, moving through it and communication. I died and then i woke up. gesture is the second choice, choosing to live, love and dance.
Dhillon Kaur Losing Signal / @dhillonkaurart
A FaceTime with my long-distance girlfriend.
Eli Paternoster Sounds of the River
An experimentation of utilising light and sound to create a rich atmosphere that builds in tension through its distortions of the natural environment, stylistically inspired by the imagery of found-footage within the horror genre.
Eret Harrison 50 year old claymation dude / @rat_art.11
I have always said the best years of my life will be when I’m a greying 50 year old, doing whatever I please in my garage. This claymation is an insight into my future.
Evie McQuillan BALLYMENA
A film using 35mm black and white stills and archive footage, documenting tensions in Ballymena, Antrim, NI.
George Stokes The Green Man / @georgestokesart
A modern re-imagining of Green Man folklore, symbolising life, death and rebirth. The Green Man leads our hero through a treacherous tunnel and hopefully out the other side. The film combines surreal performance with folk mythology, following an awkward guide through uncertainty, transformation and the strange rituals of contemporary Britain.
Harriet Lea In The Priority Seat with Harriet Lea / @harriartlea
Stations on the Snail Trail Rail line battle it out in the all new Inter Station Sports Competition. The sport this week is dance and we have 3 stations covering 3 different dance styles in order to be in with a chance of winning the coveted prize. Proudly sponsored by Shell Oil’s Gastropodic Rehoming Division.
Joné Esterhuysen The Cycle of Making / @jone.e_art
“It’s very subjective, the idea of what something feels like. But then I guess that is what comes when you ask an artist to make something through the filter of their brain.”
Leshui Li Being Together in Time
Luca Cotton I Want You
“I Want You” layers archival footage of tornadoes over Bob Dylan’s 1966 single ‘I Want You’. The song’s yearning lyrics recontextualise the visuals, turning natural disasters into a metaphor for desire: unstoppable and dangerous, yet impossible to ignore.
Millie McGarry The Art of Stokes Croft / @milliemcgarry.art
This short film documents the graffiti and street art covering Stokes Croft in Bristol, a city renowned for its street art. It captures all forms of graffiti, from murals to simple tags.
Nidaa Sagar its fun i dare you / @nidaasagar.art
Two children doing roly-polys down a hill, sketched frame by frame.
Oli Kettles Screamo Bingo 2 / @olikettles
Screamo Bingo is a London club night inspired by Allan Kaprow’s Happenings, bridging the unlikely worlds of screamo music and bingo games.
Petra Chetwynd TEARS / @ro4dche
A tragic montage of the exploitation and monetisation of young women’s emotions on Reality TV.
Renee Rautio Conkers teaser / @reneerautio_ TikTok: @reneerautio
Conkers is a short, mixed media stop motion film, exploring the tensions found in a small family dynamic between a mother and child. Conkers challenges traditional norms of the parent and child relationship, and suggests how roles can unintentionally be reversed.
Siyuan Yun Conversation
“This work presents my conversation with AI. It once comforted me, but I felt absurd gaining emotional support from a machine. At the end I realize the source of comfort is irrelevant.
The conversation reveals young adults’ hidden emotional struggles,. As adults, we can’t share our vulnerable troubles with others.”
Ted Pearson Phosphenes
‘Phosphenes’ is an experimental direct animation using Super 16mm film and permanent marker, featuring appropriated footage and traces of direct physical contact with wet medium.
Will Sharp cat mid-day / @____wi_l_l___
A young boy is home alone. A cat dies. Travesty and outrage ensues.
Yifu Ruan Deemed Consent / @chrisruanyifuart
Deemed Consent explores the psychological atmosphere of the UK’s opt-out organ donation system, where consent becomes assumed rather than actively given. Through looping text, sound and image, the work considers absence, authority and the quiet normalisation of institutional control.
Yixin Wang Once, Twice, Maybe More. / @yixinwang.art
This film explores the unstable relationship between memory and cognition through fragmented video and sound. And reflects how recollection is continuously rewritten by present perception and emotion, where absence, distortion, and fading images quietly reshape the meaning of past experience.