Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award - Olesya Ilenok
ilenok.art

May 3rd to July 30th 2027. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

A sequence of site-specific moving-image works for Aberdeen and Edinburgh that combine computational text generation with digital landscapes. Poetic interventions rooted in each city’s literary heritage and urban context are generated using a Markov Chain algorithm, a mathematical system that models sequences of possible events.

Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award - Leigh Bagley
leighbagley.com

30th October 2026 to 29th January 2027. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

What happens when a graphic system originally designed to organise time becomes a mechanism for generating the experience of time? Inspired by French designer Jean-Pierre Vitrac's iconic perpetual wall calendar, this new moving-image artwork transforms its graphic structure into a chronographic animation that explores pattern and rhythm.

Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award - Dave Bowes
efi.ed.ac.uk/creative-work

3rd August to 29th October 2026. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

Every building holds stories written through countless everyday encounters. Over time, these fleeting moments become part of the building itself. This hidden history is found in the marks left behind. Together, these accumulated imprints tell an evolving story of the people who have inhabited this place, now transformed into a living artwork.

Cycle 16 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Étienne Jacob
bleuje.com

1st September to 28th November 2026. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Built using algorithms, mathematics and digital processes, these animations embrace the creative constraints of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF). They can be enjoyed without explanation, while revealing extraordinary complexity beneath their elegant simplicity.

Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award - Donna Wilson
www.donnawilson.com

1st December 2026 to 30th January 2027. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Created from colourful knitted textiles and paper, this stop-motion animation follows a giant Yeti as they confront self-doubt and attempt to cycle up a steep mountain range. Hand-embroidered facial expressions bring Yeti’s emotions to life. Rich in humour and optimism, the work celebrates the power of believing in yourself.

Saturday 5th December 2026, 7:30pm. FULLY BOOKED
Lauriston Castle, 2 Cramond Rd S, Edinburgh EH4 6AD

Based on the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this Academy Award-winning tour-de-force was co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann. His inimitable style envelopes an ensemble cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Elizabeth Debicki.

In the Summer of 1922, young writer Nick Carraway moves to a small groundskeeper's cottage on Long Island. His neighbour is mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, who hosts extravagant parties in his magnificent mansion next door. Nick soon sees the deceit and shallowness of it all.

Saturday 15th August 2026, 2:30pm. FULLY BOOKED
Lauriston Castle, 2 Cramond Rd S, Edinburgh EH4 6AD

'Faust – A German Folktale' (1926) is a silent fantasy film directed by F. W. Murnau that draws on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust, as well as on Goethe's classic 1808 version. With technically elaborate special effects, it is a masterpiece of German Expressionist filmmaking.

Mephisto is a demon who wagers dominion over Earth with an archangel. He bets he can corrupt a righteous man's soul and destroy all that's divine in him. He beguiles an old alchemist by the name of Faust into selling him his soul, leading the despairing man into a downward spiral.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Eena Daou
layerframe.co

1st June to 29th August 2026. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Ancient folklore around the world infer that everything has a spirit or essence. The Romans named the protective spirit of a place, Genus Loci. In Scotland many bodies of water were worshipped as deities. In Aberdeen, the River Dee's name was derived from the word ‘deva’, meaning goddess but what spirits lie beneath the surface of our waters now?