Simon Payne

Essays, Reviews, Interviews etc. 

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'Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet' in Millennium Film Journal, no.82, Fall 2025.

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‘David Curtis, Artists’ Film’ in Millennium Film Journal, no. 76, Fall 2022.

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'Back and Forth' (with Andrew Vallance) in Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema (London: Contact, 2022). 

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'Kurt Kren: Lord of the Frames' How to Enjoy Experimental Film (podcast) Oct 2021.

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‘Ryoji Ikeda at 180 The Strand’ in Millennium Film Journal, no. 74, Fall 2021.  

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‘Harvesting Fields’, Foreword to A.L. Rees, Fields of View: Film, Art and Spectatorship, edited by Simon Payne (London: Bloomsbury/BFI, 2020). 

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‘Lines and Interruptions in Experimental Film and Video’ in Experimental and Expanded Cinema, edited by Nicky Hamlyn and Vicky Smith (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).  

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'The Rules of Abstraction: On Malcolm Le Grice' in Sight and Sound, June, 2016

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‘1:57 Versuch mit synthetishem ton (Test)’, ‘3/60 Baüme im Herbst’ and ‘Grün-Rot’ in Kurt Kren: Structural Films, edited by Nicky Hamlyn, A.L. Rees and Simon Payne (Bristol: Intellect, 2016). 

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'Reflections on Assembly: A Survey of Artists' Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013' in Sequence, no.4, 2016.

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'In Contact' (with Andrew Vallance) in Contact: A Festival of New Experimental Film and Video (London: Contact, 2016).

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‘Negative Light: Contemporary British Experimental Film and Video’ in Senses of Cinema, March 2016. 

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‘Malcolm Le Grice’s No Idea’ in Millennium Film Journal, no.62, Fall 2015. 

 

‘Roundtable discussion: Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists Film and Video Made in Britain, 2008-2013’ in MIRAJ, vol 3 no.1, April 2014. 

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'Framing forces: models of cinema expressed by films that frame painting' in Journal of Contemporary Painting, vol.1, no.1, 2015.

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‘Systems and Strategies: The Films of Nicky Hamlyn' to accompany the DVD Nicky Hamlyn: Selected Works, 1974-2012 (London: LUX). 

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'Smooth Movement/Frenetic Motion/Flicker: Vice Versa Et Cetera' in Animation Practice, Process and Production, vol. 1 no. 2, 2011. 

 

Interview with David Larcher, 2010.

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'Edgy Colour' in Inflexions, issue 4, Nov 2010.

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'Colour Field Frames’, programme notes for Modern Art Oxford, July 2010.

 

'Vienna Report' in Sequence, issue 1, Summer, 2010. 

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'Colour Field Films and Videos', programme notes for Tate Modern, Nov. 2008.

 

'Full Color Video' in Leonardo, vol.41 issue 5, 2008. 

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Interview with Nicky Hamlyn, for Light Reading / no.w.here.

 

'Malcolm Le Grice', for Luxonline, 2007. 

 

Interview with Peter Gidal, 2001.

 

Interview with Malcolm Le Grice, 2001.