2024. Underline . (Beyond Beck Road III: Open House Festival, London).
Screening and film performance, co-curated with Jenny Baines, including: Elizabeth Hobbs, Jenny Baines, Lynn Loo, Livia Garcia with Sue Lynch & Adrian Northover, Lucy Harris, David Leister, Simon Payne with Alex Ward, Guy Sherwin, Rowland Hill, Andrew Vallance, Jim Hobbs & Ojon, plus open call.
2024. Contact (part 1): Jenny Baines, Sophie Clements, Carali McCall & Cathy Rogers. New Art Projects.
A unique configuration of eight artists, which is structured equally across two exhibitions. These artists work in distinct and interrelated media and forms that explore material, temporal, and spatial relations working with still and moving images, analogue and digital practices, human and machine processes.
2024. Textile Cinema: Amy Dickson, Jennifer Nightingale and Mary Stark. Close Up Cinema.
The selection of films and expanded cinema performances generate a dialogue around themes of craft, community, technology and the way different media measure time.
2024. London Recorder: William English / Emily Richardson / John Rogers / Andrew Vallance. Close Up Cinema.
A programme of films that investigate London, from the centre of the city, to Brixton and the outer edges of Hackney.
2024.Video Visions: Stephen Littman / David Larcher. Close Up Cinema.
A survey of some of Stephen Littman's ideas alongside sequences from the work of David Larcher (1942-2023) that Littman has compiled.
2024. Film Talks (A Touring Programme of Experimental Film). Various venues
This two-part touring film programme features twenty-one 16mm films and video works by the artists who feature in the book Film Talks, drawing out new ideas and connections that span different visions of cinema. Presented at: TIFF Bell Lightbox (Toronto), Film Studies Centre (University of Chicago), Block Cinema (Northwestern University), Visions (Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal), Ad Hoc (Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto), Close Up Cinema (London).
2024. Strategies for Discovering Cinema: Helga Fanderl / Nicky Hamlyn. Close-Up Cinema.
Helga Fanderl, Super 8 films (2013 – 2023), with Nicky Hamlyn, 16mm and video.
2024. Surfeit II. Café Oto.
Film and sonic performance, curated by Contact & The Thames Submarine, including: David Leister with Andrew Knight-Hill , Matt Harding & Esmeralda Valencia Lindstrom , Bridget Coderc, Kenichi Iwasa , Simon Payne, Rie Nakajima, Stuart Pound with Rosemary Norman, William Raban, Angharad Davies, Guy Sherwin with Lyn Loo.
2023. Underline. (Beyond Beck Road II: Open House Festival, London).
Screening and film performance, co-curated with Jenny Baines, including: Savinder Bual, Anna Fernandez De Paco, John Smith, Andrew Vallance with Matt & Sue Harding, David Leister & Lucy Harris, Guy Sherwin & Lynn Loo, Jenny Baines, Jim Hobbs with Ojon, plus open call.
2023. Contact: Perpetual Possibility. Iklectik
New and recent work from Jenny Baines, Louisa Fairclough and Laura Hindmarsh, who will be presenting 16mm film loops, with sonic performances by Matt Sue Harding, Ecka Mordecai and Blanca Regina with Adriana Camacho.
2023. Contact: Dwelling. Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street.
A ‘dwelling’ can define a place, possibly a home, that is marked by and marks its inhabitants. The characteristics of a dwelling are also defined by the relationships it fosters. These notions are explored by four artist-filmmakers - Vicky Smith, Guy Sherwin, Amy Dickson (with Zara Joan Miller) and Maria Anastassiou – through new and rarely seen work
2023. Contact: Raucous Purposeful . Cafe Oto.
J.H. Prynne’s poetry with music and flm, including: Riccardo Iacono, William Crosby, Kelcy Davenport, Deniz Johns, Simon Payne, Kerry Baldry, Jamie Jenkinson, Angharad Davies, Samantha Rebello & Dominic Lash.
2023. Contact: Intervals. Iklectik.
New and recent experimental single-screen and expanded video works by Sophie Clements (with John Woodrow) and Simon Payne, alongside new music by the composer Tim Parkinson (performed by the GBSR Duo).
2023. Surfeit. Café Oto.
Film and sonic performance, curated by Contact & The Thames Submarine, including: David Leister, Andrew Knight-Hill, Matt Harding, Sue Harding, Li Song, Jo Millett, Ecka Mordecai, Steven Ball, Livia Garcia, Steve Beresford, Angharad Davies, Guy Sherwin, Lynn Loo
2022. Underline . (Beyond Beck Road I: Open house Festival, London).
Screening and film performance, co-curated with Jenny Baines, including: Lizzy Hobbs, Karolina Raczynski, Simon Payne, Carali McCall, Sophie Clements, Cathy Rogers, Bea Haut, Oliver Bancroft, Laura Hindmarsh, Guy Sherwin
2021-22. Film Talks: Live
A Contact event: a series of eight screening events inspired by Film Talks: 15 Conversations in Experimental Cinema at LUX, Iklectik, Cafe Oto, Close Up Cinema.
2017. Contact: Pairs. Deport, London.
Four screening events featuring: Jennifer Nightingale/Simon Payne, Nick Collins/Cathy Rogers, Nicky Hamlyn/Neil Henderson, Amy Dickson/Jamie Jenkinson
2017. Contact: Holding Space. The Brick Cube, London.
Group show: Nicky Hamlyn, Jamie Jenkinson, Simon Payne, Gareth Polmeer, Oliver Smith & Francesco Tacchini, Hannah Taverner, Jennifer Nightingale, Amy Dickson, Laura Wilson, Deniz Johns
2016. Contact: A Festival of New Experimental Film & Video. Apiary Studios, London.
A festival of experimental film & video showing the work of over 70 UK based artists & filmmakers, featuring single-screen films, multi-screen/performance-related works & site-specific installations including: George Barber, Louisa Fairclough, Nicky Hamlyn, Sally Golding, Malcolm Le Grice, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Matthew Noel-Tod, Heather Phillipson, Greg Pope, Lis Rhodes, Ben Rivers, Guy Sherwin & Lynn Loo, Jennet Thomas, Jennet Thomas, Andrea Zimmerman
2014 - Pres. Contact: screenings. Various venues including: Apiary Studios & Café Otto, London.
Artists including: Neil Henderson, Nick Collins, John James, Peter Gidal, Jennifer Nightingale, Tim Parkinson, Steve Littman, Jane Parker
2014. Dyad: at Room, Artspace, London.
Site specific set of installations by: Simon Payne/David Ryan, David Cunningham/Rie Nakajima, Cathy Rogers/Ben Gwilliam, Conor Kelly/Nicky Hamlyn
2013–14. Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artist's Film & Video in Britain 2008-13. Tate, London.
23-part programme that featured more than 90 artists & filmmakers including: John Akomfrah, Mark Lecky, Laure Prouvost, James Richards, Tacita Dean, Elizabeth Price, Patrick Keiller, Liz Rhodes, Phil Collins, Jananne Al-Ani, John Smith, Duncan Campbell, Ben Rivers, Clio Bernard, Malcolm Le Grice, Luke Fowler
2013. Nightworks. Testbed, London.
Artists including: Suky Best, Maria Anastassion, Nicky Hamlyn, Deniz Johns, Simon Payne, Ian Wiblin, Gareth Polmeer, Neil Henderson, Jennifer Nightingale, Laura Wilson, Karolina Raczyuski, Cathy Rogers, Amy Dickson