Simon Payne

Essays, Reviews, Interviews etc. 

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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' An episode of 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  

 

‘Harvesting Fields’, Foreword to A.L. Rees (2020) Fields of View: Film, Art and Spectatorship.

Edited by Simon Payne. London: Bloomsbury/BFI 

 

‘Lines and Interruptions on Experimental Film and Video’ in Experimental and Expanded Cinema.

Edited by Nicky Hamlyn and Vicky Smith (2018) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.  

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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 (2016) Bristol: Intellect 

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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) for 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, online, March 2016 

 

‘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 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

'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