At Mayflower Studios
In collaboration with John Hansard Gallery, join artists and curators Simon Payne and Andrew Vallance for a programme of exciting, expanded cinema.
The films they will introduce span the classic Berlin Horse (1970) by Malcolm Le Grice, through to more recent films in the tradition of experimental cinema. Jo Millet’s Surfeit (2010) centres on crashing waves. Cathexis (2025), by Steven McInerney, is a psychotropic mode of visual music. Simon Payne’s Intervals (2023) involves dynamic colour fields. Traction (2023), by Jenny Baines, depicts a tug-of-war that features the artist in contest with herself. Lynn Loo’s Leaving and Arriving and Andrew Vallance’s VIA (2024) take the viewer on journeys by train. The orchestrated thunder and lightning in Stephen Littman’s The Enlightenment (2016) is a charged electrical array of video imaging.
Full list of films below:
- Berlin Horse (1970, 7 mins) Malcolm Le Grice
- Surfeit (2010, 3min) Jo Millet
- Cathexis (2025, 3mins) Steven McInerney
- Intervals (2023, 10mins) Simon Payne
- Traction (2023, 3mins) Jenny Baines
- Leaving and Arriving (2022, 2mins) Lynn Loo
- VIA (2024, 3mins) Andrew Vallance
- The Enlightenment (2016, 14mins) Stephen Littman
Biographies
Simon Payne and Andrew Vallance have been programming artists’ film and video since 2013, when they co-curated ‘Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists’ Films in Britain’ for Tate Britain.
Since then, under the banner of Contact, they have presented programmes in numerous cinemas, galleries and other venues, internationally. The book they published in 2021, entitled Film Talks, involved representing new conversations on experimental cinema from a diverse range of film and video artists.
For more information visit: https://www.contactscreenings.co.uk/
