Marking the 60th anniversary of Věra Chytilová's groundbreaking feminist film Daisies (1966), DAISY CHAIN is a new socially-engaged programme of international artists’ moving image commissions, workshops and events in the UK and Czechia.

Corridor will commission six new artist moving image works alongside workshops, screenings and public events in partnership with the National Film Museum in Prague (NaFilM) and Brighton-based videoclub. The project brings together artists, audiences and communities across borders to explore themes of visibility, gender, age, power and representation through moving image and collage. 
 

Daisies, with its anarchic humour and rejection of convention, is a landmark of the Czech New Wave; a kaleidoscope of visual and sonic experimentation, offering a rich source of conceptual, thematic and aesthetic inspiration. Reflecting the film's collage-based visual language, shaped in part through Chytilová's collaboration with artist and costume/set designer Ester Krumbachová, the commissioned artists will be invited to work across both moving image and 2D/mixed-media formats.
 

In the UK in Adur and Worthing, three artists will work collaboratively with older women, young women and LGBTQIA+ youth to develop new artworks shaped by participants' experiences, ideas and perspectives. At the same time, three artists in Czechia will be commissioned to create their respective responses.

 

The resulting works will be shared through a programme of exhibitions, screenings, workshops and talks in both countries throughout 2027, creating opportunities for international exchange, conversation and creative participation. 

 

DAISY CHAIN is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, with additional support from The Chalk Cliff Trust, NaFilM and videoclub.