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Nina Danino

Position held:
Lecturer in Fine Art

Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7606

Email:
n.danino (@gold.ac.uk)

My interests are in the phenomenology of film as a structure, material and medium and in cinema as experience. I use the power of narrative, music, voice, song, place and location to create cinema. My recent writing and contributions to publications and conferences are on the sacred, sound, feminine, film and aesthetics.
I am currently developing a new audio visual multi part project of film, sound (lyrical song) and transmission based in the Mediterranean.
I have been commissioned to produce digital landscapes for site-specific projection.

Filmmaker and artist since l981.  Her films are: Location, Temenos , The Silence is Baroque, "Now I am yours", Stabat Mater, Close to Home, First Memory. 
Her films since graduating from the RCA have  been financed by  awards from The Arts Council, British Film Institute, National Lottery Cinema Films, London Production Fund, C4.
Her films have premiered at The New Contemporaries, Edinburgh and at London  International Film Festivals and shown worldwide  including at Chicago, Rotterdam, Feminale Cologne international film festivals, at regional cinemas,  cinematheques and museums such as ICA, London, Arsenal,  Berlin, Lux Cinema, STUC, Leuven, Entrepot, Paris, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco, Tate Britain and broadcast on C 4, Kunst Kanaal TV Amsterdam,SBS-TV Australia.  
Her feature film Temenos is released on DVD.  A DVD monograph in the series Afterimages published by the Lux is forthcoming. Her sound tracks  with Sainkho Namtchylak, Shelley Hirsch and Catherine Bott are released on CD. She has  written on her work and on artists’, experimental  and avant-garde film and video.
A critical volume on her films  Visionary Landscapes – The films of Nina Danino, ed. Catherine Grant, Black Dog Publishing was published in 2005.  
She has taught  in  visual arts since l992  at  Sheffield Hallam University,  Camberwell School of Art, The Architectural Association School of Architecture and presently at  Goldsmiths.

Born in Gibraltar,  studied, works and lives in London

Academic qualifications

1973-74 St. Martin's School of Art, London , Foundation
1974-77 St. Martin's School of Art, London  Painting. BA (Hons) Fine Art
1979-81 Royal College of Art,  Environmental Media, MA RCA

Teaching

2000- present Lecturer in Fine Art, Department of Visual Art, Goldsmiths College, London
1993 -2000 Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art, Visual Arts, Electronic Lens Based Media, Camberwell School of Arts, The London Institute
1999 Part-time Lecturer in Visual Culture and Media, Visual Culture, Film and Media, Middlesex University (Co-taught Critical Studies Module)
1996-99 Member of Academic Staff, General Studies, Diploma School, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London
1996-99 Film and Video Tutor, Intermediate School, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London
1993-94 Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art, Fine Art Department, Kingston University
1990-93 Half-Time (0.5fte) Associate Lecturer in Fine Art, Combined and Media, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
1982-94 Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art (visits, talks, courses, workshops): Staffordshire University (Communication) University of Humberside, Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, Central St.Martins, Chelsea School of Art, London College of Printing, Goldsmiths’ College, Winchester School of Art

Presentations and exhibitions

Public collections & archives

British Film Institute, National Film Archive, UK
Time Line Collection, Video Lounge, Universitty of Konstfack, Sweden 
British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, Central St. Martins College of
Art and Design,  University of the Arts, London, UK
Luxonline, British artists’ film and video on-line web resource

Film and DVD Distributors :
Lux Distribution:
BFI:

Selected cinema screenings, film festivals & exhibitions

2008 Temenos in Tatton Park Biennal, Film programme May 2008
Now I am yours in HOMAGE 68 - SUBVERSIVE FILM FESTIVAL
Film Selection and Round Table Discussion by Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Neil Leach, Frank Furedi, Brian Holmes, Karl-Heinz Dellw, Gabriella Rollnik 18-24 May 2008. Zagreb, Croatia.
2007 Retrospective: The Subjective Camera 25th April -30 May, Nina Danino
2nd May, Greenwich Picturehouse, London http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/news
2006 Temenos in Sacred Space,13th International Conference, Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts,University of Stirling,
2005 Temenos and Stabat Mater in The Sacred and the Feminine: Image, Music, Text, Space, AHRB CentreCATH, University of Leeds with ERCIF of the University of Bordeaux
Ephemeral Cities Deptford X, London, A2 Arts Web Project
2004 Location in Light Reading, no.w.here, London
First Memory, Stabat Mater, “Now I am yours”, Temenos in Experiments in Moving Image, Old ‘Lumiere’ Cinema, University of Westminster, London
2003 Artist: Luxonline
2002 Stabat Mater in The Space of the Female Gaze, TART Salon, London
2001 Temenos, Lux Cinema, London
Temenos and “Now I am yours”, 291 Gallery, London
Temenos, Brighton Cinémathèque, UK
The Barn Cinema, Dartington, UK
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
2000 Temenos in Sacred Places – Film, Landscape and the Sacred, Lux Cinema, London 6-19th October an especially curated film programme by Helen de Witt for the release of Temenos. With Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky; La Region Centrale by Michael Snow; The Good the Bad and the Ugly by Sergio Leone; Stromboli by Roberto Rossellini; Divine Horsemen by Maya Deren; Land without Bread by Luis Bunuel; The Blue Light by Leni Reifenstahl, Breaking the Waves by Lars vonTrier.
Scratch Projections, L’Entrepot Cinema, Paris, France
1999 Temenos, Melbourne Cinémathèque, Melbourne, Australia
STUC, KunstenCentrum, Leuven, Belgium
1998 Temenos, World Premiere, The 52nd Edinburgh International Film Festival Festival Book of Lists: Temenos top film: 12 Films with Fab Soundtracks.

Temenos,The 42nd London International Film Festival, Lux Cinema, London Temenos, Hi-Lites from the LFF, Soho House, London

“Now I am yours” in Bad Religion, Lux Cinema, London
1997 Stabat Mater in All that is Solid Melts into Air: 30 Years of the LFMC and the British Avant Garde, Pandaemonium, ICA, London
The Silence is Baroque, in the portmanteau feature film Rainbow Stories, World Premiere, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands
1995 “Now I am yours”, Kunst Kanaal TV, The Netherlands
Eat Carpet, SBS-TV, Australia
Retina, IV International Film and Video Festival, Hungary
Stabat Mater in The British Avant Garde 1967-1990, London Filmmakers’ Co-op Cinema
1994 “Now I am yours” in (S/T)extuality: Poetic Licence, Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Women in the Director’s Chair, International Film Festival, Chicago, USA
IMPACKT Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Psychoanalysis and the Image, ICA, London
Feminale, Frauen Film Festival, Koln, Germany
Avant-garde aus London—Films of Nina Danino, Freunde der Deutche
Kinematek, Arsenal Cinema, Berlin, Germany
Scratch Projections, L’Entrepot Cinema, Paris, France
“Quelles Hystéries?”, Galerie du Cloître, Ecole Régionale des Beaux Arts, Rennes, France
1993 Stabat Mater in Mother Line, London Filmmakers’ Co-op Cinema
“ Now I am yours” Premiere in Dreams, Visions and Rapture, Art and Experiment, London International Film Festival, National Film Theatre, London
“Now I am yours”, Late Night Experiment, Channel Four TV
Stabat Mater in “Imaging the Female”, Experimental Women, Birkbeck College, University of London
1992 Stabat Mater in Driving the Loop: New British Filmmakers, Tate Britain, London
1991 Stabat Mater in International Avant-Garde, National Film Theatre, London New British Work, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
1990 Stabat Mater , Premiere in Personalities, Sexualities, Identities, London International Film Festival, London Filmmakers’ Co-op Cinema
1989 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1988 Close to Home in Silence in View, London Filmmakers’ Co-op Cinema
1987 First Memory in Narrative Fragments, London Filmmakers’ Co-op Cinema
1985 Close to Home, Premiere, Edinburgh International Film Festival
Cambridge Dark Room, Cambridge, presented by Penny Webb
Labyrinths, London Filmmakers’ Co-op Cinema
1984 First Memory in Women in Film, Brewery Arts Centre, Cumbria
1983 First Memory in Word and Image, London Filmmakers’ Co-op Cinema
1982 First Memory in New British Avant-garde Film, Freunde der Deutche Kinematek, Arsenal Cinema, Berlin, Germany
1981 First Memory, Premiere in New Contemporaries, ICA, London
About the Pictures in this Room: Five RCA Environmental Media Artists, Seven Dials Gallery, London
1980 First Memory, Multi-Media Projection, Premiere in About Time/ Women’s Images of Men, ICA, London
1976 Paintings: New Contemporaries, International Arts Centre, London Painting: Stowell’s Trophy, Royal Academy, London

Broadcast media

2004 Resonance FM, London: Experiments in Moving Image: Guests Nina Danino, Jackie Hatfield, Theo Prodromidis.
1998 Documentary: The Touching Camera - La Cinepresa toccante, dir. Susanna Poole, featuring Nina Danino, Jo-Ann Kaplan, Sarah Pucill. London Guildhall University and Santalucia Produzione.
1995 “Now I am yours”, Kunst Kanaal TV, The Netherlands
“Now I am yours” Eat Carpet, SBS-TV, Australia
1993 “Now I am yours”, Late Night Experiment, Channel Four TV
1991 Third Opinion: BBC3: Interview on Stabat Mater
Focus: GBC: Interview on Stabat Mater

Conference talks (*Published)

2007 'Art Practices, Nina Danino, Kate Southworth, Shuli Nachshon' in Challenging Cultures of Death: Mercy not Sacrifice, international conference, Institute of Feminism and Religion, Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Trinity College, Dublin

2006 ‘Creating the Sacred?’ Plenary Speaker, Sacred Space. 13th International Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, University of Stirling. Plenary Speakers: Tom Altizer (SUNY Stony Brook Nina Danino (Goldsmiths College, London), Richard Holloway (Edinburgh), Philip Sheldrake (Durham). A conference in the academic literary and theological fields, with panels on music, film and the visual arts.  

2005  *‘Stabat Mater: Film and the Sacred’, Film Screening and Paper given at  The Sacred and the Feminine: Image, Music, Text, Space, AHRB CentreCATH, University of Leeds with ERCIF of the University of Bordeaux Convenor:  Griselda Pollock.

2001  *‘British Experimental Film and Video’.Lecture illustrated with video clips,
5th International Symposium: ‘Retrospective: Aesthetics and Art in the 20th Century’  SANART (Association for Aesthetics and Visual Culture), Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Ankara, Turkey , June 2001

2000 ‘The Image in the Visionary Experience of Teresa of Jesus’
in Space, Time and the Image, Birkbeck College,
Faculty of Continuing Education, University of London, Convenor;  Carolyn Gill
1998 *‘Temenos: Film, Time and the Visionary’. in Space, Time and the Image, Birkbeck College, Faculty of Continuing Education, University of London,
Convenor; Carolyn Gill

1997 “Time and Black Film” in Time and the Image, Birkbeck College,             Faculty of Continuing Education, University of London, Convenor; Carolyn Gill

1994 “Now I am yours" and talk in Psychoanalysis and the Image,  ICA, London  Convenor; Parveen Adams. Speakers: Kaya Silverman, Jean Matthee, Leo Bersani, Nina Danino, Andrea Fisher, Mark Cousins, Olivier Richon, Joan Copjec, Darian Leader, Slavoy Zizek

1994 Stabat Mater and talk, Gibraltar, Fourteenth International James Joyce Symposium; Seville, Spain.

Review: Mary Lowe-Evans and Ronald V. Evans, The Seville International Joyce Symposium, The James Joyce Literary Supplement, Vol.8,No.2 (Fall 1994)

1994 Stabat Mater in Time and the Image, Birkbeck College, Faculty of Continuing Education, University of London; Convenor Carolyn Gill

1994 “Now I am yours” and talk,  Hispanic Studies Film Seminar, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge
"Now I am yours" and talk in MA Architecture and Critical Theory Film Seminar,  Nottingham University

1993  * ‘Speaking in the Dark: Film - The Voice and Teresa of Jesus’ Speaking
Texts’, Woman/Image/Text, Sheffield Hallam University

Television and video output

Media & television

1994-95 Reader and Film Script Editor, The European Script Fund (Spanish)
1983-92 Film and Video Editor and Assistant: documentary programmes C4, BBC, (including Arena, and Horizon) BFI, Arts Council and a number of feature films.
1982-90 Editor, Co-Editor, Writer and Member of Editorial Collective: Undercut Magazine: The journal for experimental film and video 1986-88 Editor of the seminal issue Cultural Identities No 17 Spring l988 1982-86 Member of Editorial Collective

Residencies

2003- date 
Visiting Research Residency: GBC, Radio. Sound Library, Gibraltar.
1997 Creative Production Residency:  CICV (Centre International de Creation Video), Centre Pierre Schaeffer, Montbéliard, Belfort, France,

Production & travel awards

2004 Research Support Award, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London,
2004 Cultural Grant, Gibraltar Government
2002 Research Support Award, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London,
2001 Research Support Award, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 
2002 Arts Council of England Publishing Award
2000 Arts Council of England Publishing Award (Joint)
1997 National Lottery Cinema Films, Arts Council of England
1996 Production Projects, British Film Institute
1995 Rainbow Stories, Studio Een, Netherlands
1994 British Council Travel Award
1993 Development Funding, London Production Fund
1991 Experimenta Award, C4 and the Arts Council of Great Britain
1988 Artists’ Film and Video Award, Arts Council of Great Britain
1985 Artists’ Film and Video Completion Award, Arts Council of Great Britain
1984 Artists’ Film and Video Award, Arts Council of Great Britain
1982 British Council Travel Award
1981 Artists’ Film and Video Award, Arts Council of Great Britain

Professional consultancy

2002-05  External Examiner; BA Film and Video, School of Media Art and Design University of Wales, Newport
2002-05 External Examiner; MA Film, International Film School Wales, University of Wales, Newport.