Moving Image

A large flat-screen television on a blue wall. The video on the screen depicts a club party, with everyone covered in bubbly foam. There are subtitles on the screen reading: "I feel like the music sounds better with you"

Elliott Flanagan, A piece of something bigger, 2018

A piece of something bigger, Elliott Flanagan, 2018

A large flat-screen television on a blue wall. The screen has green blocky text upon it, like you'd see in old movies where they hack computers - think the matrix. The screen reads: industry, a pillar of flame, the call to industry

Joe Fowler, Call to Industry, 2023

Call to Industry, Joe Fowler, 2023

A large sculpture, a floating island. A lower rocky layer, followed by soil, then grass, then a whimsical scene. 3 figures - one perching on an outstretched cliff outside of a cave. The next half-submerged in the water below a waterfall running through the center of the sculpture. and the last amongst the trees toward the back side of this diorama.

Jack Jameson, Arcadia; Queer by Nature, 2023-24

Arcadia; Queer by Nature, Jack Jameson, 2023-24

A colourful still image from 'Nodes' showing a distorted background with purples, greens, browns, and black and whites. Code, describing sounds sits ontop of the background in white text on pink.

Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler, The Scar, 2018

Brass Art, Shadow Worlds | Writers Rooms’ – Freud’s House, 2016

A hand drawn crow sits on barbed wire, against a light pink and blue sky

Parham Ghalamdar, Birds or Borders, 2020

Birds or Borders, Parham Ghalamdar, 2020

This image depicts several police officers standing in a small town.

Sun Xun, A War About Chinese Words, 2005

a film still showing two people in a dilapidated restaurant, one person is sitting eating and another is standing up

aaajiao, Tennis for None, 2016

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a still from a video, showing a close-up of a person lying on a bed. They are covering their left ear with their left hand

Ryoichi Kurokawa, unfold.alt, 2016

A photograph of a projection in a dark room in Salford Museum and Art Gallery. The footage shows an older white man playing the drums inside a professional music recording studio.

Open Music Archive, Everything I Have is Yours, 2019

Open Music Archive, Everything I Have Is Yours, 2019

a photograph of a person, wearing a blue hoody with paint on it. They are holding up an image of a tower block, which obscures their face.

Chris Paul Daniels and Sam Meech, One Square Mile, 2016

Chris Paul Daniels and Sam Meech One Square Mile, 2016

a film still showing a sunset over an outdoor theatre

Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Song for Armageddon, 2017

Liam Young and Tim Maughan, Where the City Can’t See, 2016

Liam Young & Tim Maughan, Where the City Can’t See, 2016

a brightly coloured scene using the aesthetics of a video game. There are 3 identical figures wearing furry costumes on a stage.

Rachel Maclean, Again and Again and Again, 2016

A film still, in colour, showing a white man with short, slicked back cropped hair, reading a document. He is wearing a light brown suit and blue tie.

Declan Clarke, The Most Cruel of All Goddesses, 2015

Artist: Declan Clarke (b. 1974) Title: The Most Cruel of all Goddesses Year: 2015 Medium: 16mm Black and white film converted to DVD. Shown as projection. With Sound Duration: 60′ Accession Number: US2015-19 Acquisition info: The Most Cruel of All Goddesses was co-commissioned by HOME and the University of Salford as part of ‘The Heart […]

A still from a video, showing a person with a beard and shoulder length hair, in a white labcoat. They are looking into a glass chamber, which is obscured by reflection.

Shezad Dawood, Leviathan Cycle, Episode 1: Ben, 2017

Artist: Shezad Dawood (b. 1974) Title: Leviathan Cycle, Episode 1: Ben Year: 2017 Medium: Single Channel HD Video, Colour, Stereo 5.1, 16:9 Duration: 12’52” Accession Number: 2017-09 Acquisition info: Commissioned by University of Salford Art Collection and Leviathan – Human and Marine Ecology, with support from The Contemporary Art Society

an image of a city in Italy in heavy rainfall, there are large umbrellas over tables and chairs, tarpaulins over street furniture, and a small crowd of people gathered in a shop entrance

Antony Barkworth-Knight, Homage to the Rain, 2019

Artist: Antony Barkworth-Knight, with musicians Rob Turner, Sam Healey, Conor Miller and digital strategist Rebecca Rae-Evans. Title: Homage to the Rain Year: 2019 Medium: digital video Dimensions: 12 mins duration Accession Number: TBC Acquisition info: Co-commission with Quays Culture for Lightwaves Festival 2019 Homage to the Rain is an artist’s film which celebrates rain around the […]