Elemental Cinema is a gallery exhibition of several experimental films and videos that explore fundamental characteristics of the medium, by way of different subjects, forms and phenomena. Neil Henderson’s films have involved investigations of landscape, light and improvised music. Shot in Lincolnshire and Kent, his geographical films have focused on waterways and the meeting of sea and land. Other films have focused on polaroid images of candlelight and starry night skies. Jennifer Nightingale’s films translate regional knitting patterns into scores that she uses to document the places that these patterns derive from. Visiting locations in Cornwall, the Faroe Islands, Norfolk, Yorkshire and Ireland, she has made several suites of films that involve a direct pictorial representation of local heritage. Earlier films of hers were made with pinhole cameras. Simon Payne’s vibrant abstract cinema takes the primary and secondary colours associated with video to make bold graphic works. They press at the edges of the projected frame and generate striking perceptual phenomena to do with colour mixing, reflected light and illusions of movement.
Free to attend - All Welcome!
Extra events:
At 5pm on Tuesday 7th of Oct there will be a special screening of 16mm films by Neil Henderson and Jennifer Nightingale, alongside a unique performance of improvised music by Angharad Davies (violin) and Dominic Lash (double bass).
At 5:30pm on Thursday 9th of October there is a private view and launch event for the Centre for Media, Arts and Creative Technologies (MACT).
Artists’ Biographies
Neil Henderson, Jennifer Nightingale and Simon Payne have taught on the Film and Media courses at ARU for over twenty years. Their work has shown in numerous international film festivals and art galleries. In this country their work has screened at Café Oto, Close-Up, LUX, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, the Serpentine Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery. A new book by Simon Payne, entitled Experimental Cinema: Structures, Systems and Strategies, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury/BFI.
The exhibition Elemental Cinema is supported by the Centre for Media, Arts and Creative Technologies (MACT) at Anglia Ruskin University.
For more information, please contact Simon Payne.
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