'Framed in Reflection': Experimental film and the subject/ive Screening

‘Framed in Reflection’: Experimental film and the subject/ive: Screening and Panel discussion

Saturday the 6th December | 6pm - 8pm

Cinema (Richard Hoggart Building), Goldsmiths University of London

Free Registration

This is a launch event to mark the publication of the much awaited Experimental Film and the Subjective/ive at the London Filmmakers’ Co-op: A series of conversations with women filmmakers by Nina Danino published on 30 October 2025 by Lux London.

Over the course of this series of conversations published on Lux, artist and filmmaker Nina Danino explores different approaches to the subjective in experimental filmmaking.

The conversations approach experimental film by women artists who engaged with the topic of the subject/subjective through film as a specific medium and visual means, who each discuss how they engage the tools and materials of film as a language and format to explore questions of representation and the self, considering the subject as artist, as woman, as filmmaker and film as means to approach intensities such as the unrepresented or what cannot be put into verbal language and is mediated in filmmaking practice. The LFMC is the nexus through which these practices, theories, positions, visual languages and discussions intersect.

The programme will show digital transfers of works originally shot on celluloid film. The title ‘Framed in Reflection’ is taken from Light Reading (1978) by Lis Rhodes. Each work in the programme uses symbols and sounds, expertly weaving these elements to emphasize the different kinds of materials connected with filmmaking and the different themes each artist inscribes in their work.

Screening

Lis Rhodes, Light Reading (1978, 20 minutes)

Sarah Pucill, Milk and Glass (1993, 8 minutes)

Jayne Parker, The Pool (1991, 10 minutes)

Barbara Meter, Penelope (1994, 9 minutes)

Nina Danino, Stabat Mater (1990, 8 minutes)

Anna Thew, LFMC Demolition (2004, 9 minutes)

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Nina Danino, Helen de Witt, Jayne Parker, Sarah Pucill and Anna Thew, providing a forum for dialogue about and around these very different works and the conversations undertaken in 2020 and 2025.

Speakers

Helen de Witt is a curator, lecturer and writer specialising in artists’ film, documentary and independent cinema. She is a lecturer in Documentary and Global Cinemas at UCL and teaches Film Programming and Curating at Birkbeck and at NFTS

Nina Danino is a Reader in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. A retrospective of her work took place at Close Up Cinema (London) in 2016. Her recent work, MARIA (2023) is her fifth feature length film.

Jayne Parker is a Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. In her films objects, performance and gesture are brought together to explore space, expression and the physical body.

Sarah Pucill is currently a Reader at the University of Westminster. At the heart of almost all her films lies the question of ownership of the female body. Interiority of the body, the psyche and the home challenge the false claim that the private is apolitical.

Anna Thew is a linguist, painter and writer, turned film-maker and performer. Her works have shown widely in international film festivals. She worked as Associate Lecturer in F.A. Film/Alternative Media and Visual Arts at Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Art, Goldsmiths and Westminster universities and ran the Chelsea Experimental Film seminar screenings (1984–2016).

Programming: Claire M. Holdsworth

Event production: Matilda Butler

Supported by Lux, London & Goldsmiths Research

Film still from Lis Rhodes 'Light Reading' (1978)