Beck and Call: Walk & Screening
14 December 2025
Contact, Noble and King present a two-part excursion from Islington to Hackney and beyond.
Screening featuring: Guy Sherwin, Karolina Raczynski, Deniz Johns, John Smith, Charlie Usher, Simon King, Corinne Noble, Jenny Baines, Oliver Bancroft & Andrew Vallance
Surfeit IV
Cafe Oto, 3 December 2025
Contact and The Thames Submarine present Surfeit IV, a celebration of music, film, sound and performance featuring: Angharad Davies, Athanasios Argianas, Clementine, Beanie Bhebhe, Jim Hobbs, Ojon, Merkaba Macabre, Edwin Rostron, Zara Joan Miller, Deniz Johns, Martin Zeilinger, Yi Ting Liong & Adam Coney
Two programmes of artists’ film and video for the John Hansard Gallery and Southampton Film Week.
Mayflower Studios, 14 November 2025
Featuring Malcolm Le Grice, Jo Millet, Steven McInerney, Simon Payne, Jenny Baines, Lynn Loo, Andrew Vallance & Stephen Littman
John Hansard Gallery, 21 November 2025
Featuring Lucy Harris, Laura Hindmarsh, Nick Collins, Vicky Smith, Samantha Rebello, Nicky Hamlyn & Neil Henderson
‘Sense of Place’
Arch 347, Beck Road, 5 Aug – 6 Sep 2025
Participatory audio-visual workshops for young creators. Four free workshops with renowned local makers, in coordination with the charity London Community Network, which culminate in an exhibition on 6 Sep.
Video: Creative digital storytelling (with Tamana Ayazi & Andrew Vallance
Animation: Traditional & cut-out animation (with Lizzy Hobbs & Shelly Wain)
Sound: Audio creation & composition (with Matt Harding & Sue Harding)
Film: Drawing on 16mm film (with Jenny Baines & Maria Anastassiou)
Close Up Year 20
Close Up Cinema, 5–26 July 2025
To mark the 20th anniversary of Close-Up, Contact invited filmmakers who have previously shown work at the venue to create a short film about Close-Up. This programme brings together 50 films by: Ute Aurand, Kerry Baldry, Jenny Baines, Oliver Bancroft, Stephanie Barber, Ruth Beckermann, Nick Collins, Jill Daniels, Nina Danino, Amy Dickson, Karel Doing, William English, Luke Fowler, Peter Gidal, Larry Gottheim, Nicky Hamlyn, Lucy Harris, Jim Hobbs, Lizzy Hobbs, James Holcombe, Anthea Kennedy & Ian Wiblin, Adam Kossoff, Andrew Kötting, Steven Littman, Susu Laroche, David Leister, Lynn Loo, Martin Lugg, Alex MacKenzie, Steven McInerney, Simon Payne, Deborah Phillips, Chris Petit, Sarah Pucill, William Raban, Emily Richardson, Ben Rivers, Adam Roberts, Edwin Rostron, Frances Scott, Luke Seomore, Guy Sherwin, John Smith, Vicky Smith, Roman Štětina, Anna Thew, Eve Thompson, Peter Todd, Andrew Vallance, Karen Yasinsky, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Contact (part 2)
New Art Projects, 18 January – 8 February 2025
A unique configuration of eight artists, which is structured equally across two exhibitions. The second part features work from Savinder Bual, Jim Hobbs, Simon Payne & Andrew Vallance.
'All the work demands imaginative thinking on the part of the viewer to extend and complete it, prompting a reflection on what 'moving' might mean.' Nicky Hamlyn, Contact | & lI (Millennium Film Journal, 2025)
Surfeit
Café Oto, 8 January 2025
Contact and The Thames Submarine presents Surfeit III, a celebration of music, film, sound and performance featuring: Bea Haut, Andrew Vallance, Illia & Laura Rogatchevski, Ben Kreukniet & Steven McInerney, Simon Payne, Jenny Baines, Miranda Pennel, Rie Nakajima, Liz Hanks, Lynn Loo with Emil Karlsen
Underline
Beyond Beck Road III: Open House Festival, London, 21 September 2024
Featuring film and performance from: Kim Walker, Max Vallance, Milan & all at no. 35, Lula Ings, No. 47: A Disobedience Collective, Elizabeth Hobbs, E.E., 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
Contact (part 1)
New Art Projects, London, 20 July - 17 August 2024
A unique configuration of eight artists, which is structured equally across two exhibitions. The first part features work fromJenny Baines, Sophie Clements, Carali McCall & Cathy Rogers
'The two-part exhibition, which presents a variety of works utilising diverse mediums, creates a dialogical space of experimentation!' Steven Ball & Deniz Johns, In and On Contact (New Art Projects, 2025)
Textile Cinema: Amy Dickson, Jennifer Nightingale & Mary Stark
Close-Up Cinema, 25 July 202
The selection of films and expanded cinema performances generate a dialogue around themes of craft, community, technology and the way different media measure time.
London Recorder: William English / Emily Richardson / John Rogers / Andrew Vallance
Close Up Cinema, 27 June 2024
A programme of films that investigate London, from the centre of the city, to Brixton and the outer edges of Hackney.
Video Visions: Stephen Littman / David Larcher
Close Up Cinema, 30 May 2024
A survey of some of Stephen Littman's ideas alongside sequences from the work of David Larcher (1942-2023) that Littman has compiled.
Film Talks (A Touring Programme of Experimental Film)
Various venues, 8-25 May 2024
Two-part touring film programme that features twenty-one 16mm films and video works by the artists who feature in the book Film Talks, which draws out new ideas and connections that span different visions of cinema
8 May: TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto (Programme 1)
9 May: Film Studies Center, University of Chicago (Programme 1)
10 May: Block Cinema, Northwestern University, Chicago (Programme 2)
13 May: Visions at Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal (Programme 1)
14 May: Visions at Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal (Programme 2)
16 May: Ad Hoc at Cinema Studies Institute, Innis College, University of Toronto (Programme 2)
Strategies for Discovering Cinema: Helga Fanderl / Nicky Hamlyn
Close-Up Cinema, 18 April 2024
Café Oto, 21 February 2024
Contact and The Thames Submarine presents Surfeit III, a celebration of music, film, sound and performance featuring: 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
Underline
Beyond Beck Road II: Open House Festival, London, 16 September 2023
Featuring film and performance from: Charlie Lloyd, Milan, No. 47: A Disobedience Collective, Marianne Feijó, No. 47: A Disobedience Collective, Savinder Bual, David Robinson & Bryan Michael Mills, 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
Contact: Perpetual Possibility
Iklectik, 6 July 2023
Jenny Baines, Louisa Fairclough, Laura Hindmarsh, Matt Harding, Ecka Mordecai, Blanca Regina & Adriana Camacho
One Minute is an international touring programme of artists moving image curated by artist Kerry Baldry.
Includes work by: Nick Jordan, Rastko Novakovic, Eva Rudlinger, Ruxandra Mitache, Steven Ball, Terry Flaxton, Anna Mortimer, Alex Pearl, Emily Richardson, Lynn Loo, Bea Haut, Nicky Hamlyn, Stuart Pound and Rosemary Norman, Philip Sanderson , Kerry Baldry, My Name is Scot, Andrew Vallance, Bob Georgeson, Julia Dogra-Brazell, Katharine Meynell, Tony Hill, Gordon Dawson, Michael Szpakowski & Anna Szpakowska, Robert Sherwood Duffield, Louisa Minkin & Alex Schady, Zhel ( Zeljko Vukicevic), Jonathan Moss, Guy Sherwin, Rachael Allain, Jacob Cartwright, Kayla Parker & Stuart Moore, Leister/Harris, Paul Tarrago, Jenny Baines, Jamie Naqvi, Guido Devadder, Hendrik van Oordt, Daniela Butsch, Debjit Bagchi & Daniela Lucato.
Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street, 1 July 2023
A ‘dwelling’ can define a place, possibly a home, that is marked by and marks its inhabitants. An individual or group can take dwelling, seek out lodgings, in a particular place for a time. The characteristics of a dwelling are also defined by the relationships it fosters. These notions are explored by four artist-filmmakers through new and rarely seen work from Amy Dickson with Zara Joan Miller, Maria Anastassiou, Vicky Smith & Guy Sherwin.
Cafe Oto, 12 June 2023
J.H. Prynne’s poetry with music and fllm featuring: Riccardo Iacono, William Crosby, Kelcy Davenport, Deniz Johns, Simon Payne, Kerry Baldry, Jamie Jenkinson, Angharad Davies, Samantha Rebello & Dominic Lash
Iklectik, 11 May 2023
New and recent experimental video works and music from Sophie Clements (James Woodrow), Simon Payne and Tim Parkinson (performed by GBSR Duo)
Café Oto, 12 January 2023
Contact and The Thames Submarine presents Surfeit III, a celebration of music, film, sound and performance featuring: David Leister with Andrew Knight-Hill, Matt Harding & Sue Harding, Jo Millett, Li Song, Ecka Mordecai, Steven Ball, Livia Garcia with Steve Beresford, Angharad Davies, Guy Sherwin & Lynn Loo
Underline
Beyond Beck Road I: Open House Festival, London, 10 September 202
Featuring film and performance from: Lizzy Hobbs, Karolina Raczynski with Caroline Wilson, Simon Payne, Carali McCall, Andrew Vallance, Sophie Clements, Cathy Rogers, Bea Haut, Jenny Baines, Oliver Bancroft, Laura Hindmarsh & Guy Sherwin
A series of events inspired by Film Talks: 15 Conversations in Experimental Cinema
Jenny Baines / Amy Dickson / Bea Haut (30 June 2022, Iklectik)
Karel Doing / Bruce McClure & Gregg Biermann / Greg Pope / Tom Richards (7 June 2022, Cafe Oto)
Malcolm Le Grice / Chris Welsby (17 May 2022, Close Up Cinema)
William Raban / John Smith (21 April 2022, Close Up Cinema)
Jayne Parker / Simon Payne / Tim Parkinson (playing Piano Sonatas by John White) (6 March 2022, Cafe Oto)
Jasleen Kaur / Alia Syed (6 February 2022, LUX)
Nicky Hamlyn / Lynn Loo / Guy Sherwin (20 January 2022, Iklectik)
Cathy Rogers / Vicky Smith (28 November 2021, LUX)
Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema
Edited by Simon Payne and Andrew Vallance, foreword by Jonathan Walley.
Film Talks is an edited collection of unique conversations on experimental cinema from a range of eminent and emerging film and video makers. The book represents a contemporary snapshot on the ways in which experimental cinema is perceived by its practitioners, often in relation to other art forms, moving image culture at large and wider social issues. It is an invaluable guide for those keen to immerse themselves in the insights and perspectives that only artists can offer.
'What is there to say here that’s not better said by two film artists talking through, with, in each other’s works?'
Sean Cubitt, Professor of Screen & Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne
'Here we find the impure discourse in which culture begins, theoretical and technical, intellectual and intuitive. Any one of these conversations contains enough vitamins and minerals to fuel a conference.'
Film Millennium Journal, No. 76, Fall, 2022
Three Steps to the Avant-Garde with Neil Henderson & Andrew Vallance
How to Enjoy Experimental Film (podcast)
The Others, Stock Newington
17 September 2021
Friends, colleagues and past students of Al Rees have contributed one-minute films and videos to celebrate his posthumous book Fields of View* and the spirit of the man who was an ardent supporter of experimental cinema. Many have made new pieces for the occasion and responded directly to key terms and ideas that they found in his writing.
Over 60 artists have contributed to the screening including: Maria Anastassiou; Luke Aspell; Jenny Baines; Steven Ball; Suky Best; Kelvin Brown, Savinder Bual; Luke Burton; Brad Butler & Noorafshan Mirza, Sophie Clements; Nick Collins; Toby Cornish; Chris Paul Daniels; Karel Doing; Amy Dickson; William English; Anna Fernandez De Paco; Patti Gaal-Holmes; Éric and Marie Gaspar; Rob Gawthrop; Zlatan Hadžifejzović; Nicky Hamlyn; Tony Hill; Elizabeth Hobbs; James Holcombe; Phil Hollins; Riccardo Iacono; Nils Jean; Jamie Jenkinson; Deniz Johns; sue k.; Adam Kossoff; Stephen Littman; Lynn Loo; Paul Martin; Chris Meigh-Andrews; Jo Millett; Jayne Parker; Stephen Partridge; Simon Payne; Alexandros Pissourios; Gareth Polmeer; William Raban; Karolina Raczynski; Emily Richardson; Cathy Rogers; Edwin Rostron; Philip Sanderson; Guy Sherwin; John Smith; Vicky Smith; Anna Thew; Peter Todd; Nikolaos Tzaferidis; Andrew Vallance; Dominic de Vere; Chris Welsby; Ian Wiblin & Anthea Kennedy; R. L. Wilson; winc films.
