19th January 2017
She makes single screen and gallery based work and has collaborated with artists of performance, dance, theatre and music. Distributed by the LUX her early films have been screened extensively in the UK and internationally including MOMA New York, Whitechapel Art gallery, A.S.T.A.R.T.I Paris, ICA London, Electric Gallery of Moving Images Vancouver. As part of the LFMC 50th Anniversary, her work was included in ‘From reel to real: Women, feminism and the London Film-Makers Co-operative’ at Tate Modern London and ‘Sensuous Film’ at the BFI 2016.
She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College London and developed her film making skills at the London Film Makers Co-op in the early 90s where she also worked as course organiser.
Recent works include two collaborations with performance artists: ‘Peggy Shaw: a film portrait’ (shown at BFI’s ‘Essential Experiments’ with Yvonne Rainer’s ‘Lives of Performers’), and ‘For Maynard’ with Simon Whitehead. She is currently working on ‘Life Works: a film portrait of Port Talbot Steel Works’ and a film to accompany the music of Cuban composer Marietta Veulens.
Image credit: Film stills detailing 'Incantation' with Sama Fabian and 'In Land'. Films by Tanya Syed.