MORYOW: The artifice of dread is an exhibition that documents a pioneering practice-as-research project that explored the production pipeline for creating short form genre work within Virtual Production on an independent budget. 

Event details

  • 23 January 2026 - 26 February 2026

    10:00-17:00 (GMT)

    Foyer Gallery, UCA Farnham, Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7DS

The film MORYOW follows Sammie, a young crabber who is haunted by a recent loss and spiralling through addiction. When she boards an enigmatic fishing vessel sailing to a forbidden fishing ground, she soon understands she is trapped in a cyclical nightmare. She must face the monsters that lie in wait for her, else be doomed to repeat this same voyage again and again.  
 
The exhibition dissects how this horror project came to life. The work on display within it is the result of countless hours of dedicated effort and craft skills. Visitors will discover a critical and creative commentary on the choices made during the production and explore how the team responded to the challenges that arose as the work was being created.  
 
Director Ted Wilkes said this about the exhibition: “MORYOW contained many firsts for us as practitioners and as an institution. We had academics and students from across the campus engaged with this project. It was brilliant to be able to work in such a collaborative and interdisciplinary way to push the creative and technological resources available to us at UCA. I am incredibly proud of the output and look forward to being able to share it in MORYOW: The artifice of dread.”  
 
We journeyed into the dread of ‘The Deep’ and bought back the darkness to share with you all.   
 
We hope you enjoy it.

MORYOW: The artifice of dread

MORYOW: The artifice of dread

MORYOW: The artifice of dread