LONDON.- Film London announced the recipient of the 2025 FLAMIN Productions award. Artist filmmaker Maeve Brennan will receive funding, tailored support and mentoring as she develops her new moving image project, Deep Storage.

FLAMIN Productions aims to support the most exciting, innovative and challenging moving image projects. The only scheme of its kind in the UK, FLAMIN Productions commissions new, important and substantial moving image artworks that are ambitious in premise and duration, with an emphasis on projects that have strong potential for national and international exhibition and distribution. The artist will receive funding of £40,000 to produce their project, alongside ongoing development support.

Adrian Wootton OBE, Chief Executive of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “It is vital that we continue to support and champion artists exploring and challenging creative practices and perceptions. Now in its twelfth round, FLAMIN Productions has a reputation for supporting artists seeking to push themselves, their work and the boundaries of moving image. We are thrilled to award Maeve Brennan funding for her ambitious new project, adding to the impressive slate generated by FLAMIN Productions. I would like to thank Arts Council England for their support of this invaluable scheme.”

Deep Storage will excavate the layered histories embedded in the Winsford salt mine, the oldest and largest working mine in the UK. Discovered in 1844 by prospectors searching for coal, the salt repository was formed by the residue left behind by an ocean that covered this part of the earth 200 million years ago. With a naturally occurring dry atmosphere and consistent ambient temperature perfect for the preservation of paper, parts of the salt mine have been converted into a deep storage facility, holding materials from the National Archives and The Royal Society alongside police records and treasured works of art.

Considered to be safe from future climate catastrophe, the mine not only represents the desire to document, archive and preserve, but also our inability to reckon with the ongoing processes of extraction that put our existence at risk. Through a forensic lens, Deep Storage will capture what is deemed worth preserving, while imagining a possible future in which these artefacts are discovered.

Deep Storage will be produced by LUX. It will be supported by Site Gallery, Sheffield, Sonic Acts, Amsterdam and LUX, and will premiere at Site Gallery in 2027.

To date, FLAMIN Productions has commissioned thirty-seven significant moving image projects by mid-career artists, supporting work that has been exhibited and shown at major galleries and film festivals across the UK and internationally. Recently selected for a Development Award at FIDMarseille 2025, Zero Gravity Resistance by Graeme Arnfield will be premiere in early 2026. Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Thieves was presented in a series of solo exhibitions in 2023-2024 at South London Gallery, Dundee Contemporary Arts and The Bluecoat (Liverpool). Following its presentation as part of a moving image installation at the Bonington (Nottingham), Onyeka Igwe’s A Radical Duet was shown at Peer Gallery London and selected for festivals worldwide including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Prismatic Ground (New York) and Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival.