Date: Wednesday 21 October 2009
Time: 5pm
Venue: Ruskin 203 (above the Ruskin Gallery) Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge

Free event - all welcome.

A film screening by four experimental film/videomakers: Neil Henderson, Jennifer Nightingale, Samantha Rebello and Simon Payne, followed by a discussion chaired by A.L. Rees.

Neil Henderson's various landscape films and his recent works made with the saxophonist Evan Parker have recently been shown at Light Reading in London, the Turner Contemporary Open in Margate, and as part of this year's Jerwood Drawing Prize. The structures of Jennifer Nightingale's films have often involved either knitting patterns or shooting with pinhole cameras. Her work has recently been screened in the Gehry Pavillion at the Serpentine Gallery and at Tate Modern. She has a retrospective upcoming at the Strange Screen festival in Thessaloniki. Samantha Rebello's films incorporate imagistic and sonic montage, and extreme and discomfiting close-ups of membranes and fluids. They have been shown at various international film festivals including London, Edinburgh and Rotterdam. Simon Payne's videos involve weaving and flickering colour fields. In the past year his work has been shown at the European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Tate Modern and Media City in Ontario.

Neil, Jennifer, Samantha and Simon teach on the Communication, Film and Media Studies Programme at Anglia Ruskin University.

A.L. Rees is a Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art. A former chair of the Arts Council Artists' Film and Video Panel, he is an advisory board member of no.w.here, Film Quarterly, and the AVPhd group to promote practice-based research in film and media. He was also a member of the AHRC Postgraduate Awards Panel for art, design and media. His book A History of Experimental Film and Video was published by the British Film Institute in 1999 and is now in its seventh reprinting. Widely cited and used by film courses in Europe and the USA, the book describes the international film avant-garde from the 1920s to present day UK film artists.

This event is supported by the University Arts Council.

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