Dr Nina Danino

Staff details

Position Reader in Fine Art

Department Art

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

Phone +44 (0)20 7919 7606

Professional Practice

Dr Nina Danino is an artist and filmmaker. She has made experimental narrative films which centre on self-inscription, the feminine and the subjective voice. She has written on the women and experimental film and is co-editor of the Undercut Reader - Critical Writings on Artists’ Film and Video ( Wallflower Press 2002).

Her filmography starts in 1981, she established her film career in the ambit of the London Filmmakers’ Co-op in the 1980s and as a member of the Undercut Editorial collective. She has produced worked across a wide range of media and formats including 16mm, 35mm and feature length film. Her recent work includes film and sound installation and stand alone audio. Her interests are in film and cinema as forms of transporting experiences. She has worked with the performativity of the voice in film using her own spoken voice and has worked with vocalists and singers.

Her recent feature documentary Jennifer (2015) is part of a series of works she made between 2013-2016 with monastic communities of women, the other works being Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara; a single chanel video of interviews and a 6-chanel audio installation (2015) and 16mm film (2016).

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

Prior to lecturing at Goldsmiths in 2000, she taught at Camberwell School of Art (1993-2000), The Architectural Association School of Architecture (1996-1999) and Sheffield Hallam University (1990-1993)

She served as an external examiner for International Film School Wales, University of Wales’ BA Film and Media and MA Film programmes (2002-2005)

She teaches on the BA Fine Art and also contributes to the Department through PhD supervision in moving image, artists’ film, women’s cinema.

Professional Projects

Dr Nina Danino has shown her films at major international festivals including; Edinburgh, London, Rotterdam, Ann Arbor, Alchemy, Chicago, Feminale Cologne, Cambridge, Huelva. They have been broadcast on Ch 4, Kunst Kanaal TV Amsterdam, SBS-TV Australia. They have been exhibited worldwide in cinemas including; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Arsenal, Berlin, Lux, London, STUC, Leuven, Entrepot, Paris, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco, Tate Britain, Cinema Off off, Ghent, Tate Modern and in art spaces and museums including; National Gallery of Iceland, Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Photo España Madrid, Mount Stuart, Ambika P3, Malta Contemporary Art Foundation, CAC Malaga.

In 2015-2016 she has shown at Glasgow Film Theatre, ExeterPhoenix, ICA Cinema, London, Estepona TV, Spain, Anthology Film Archives, New York, Cambridge Film Festival, From Reel to Real: Women, Feminism and the London Film-makers’ Co-operative, Tate Modern, GBC TV, Venice Film Week, That Which Remains, Mount Stuart Contemporary Visual Arts, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Gibraltar Leisure Cinemas, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Visions in the Nunnery.

Her work has received major awards from the Arts Council, National Lottery, Channel 4, British Film Institute. Her recent feature film Jennifer (2015) has been broadcast and received theatrical release. In 2016 she had a retrospective of her films at Closeup Filmcentre, London.

Monographs on her work are: Visionary Landscapes ed. Catherine Grant, Black Dog Publishing 2005

“…and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens”, Mousse Publishing 2013

Publications

Film/Video

Danino, Nina. 2019. I Die of Sadness Crying For You.

Danino, Nina. 2016. Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara (2016) 16mm.

Danino, Nina. 2015. Jennifer (2015).

Danino, Nina. 2014. Apparitions (2013).

Danino, Nina. 2012. Terrace (2012) 1 minute Loop.

Danino, Nina. 2010. Communion (2010) 35mm, black and white, silent, 10 mins.

Book

Danino, Nina; De Witt, H.; Gray, L. and Plate, S.. 2005. Visionary Landscapes - The Films of Nina Danino. London: Black Dog Publishing, pp. 1-144. ISBN 1904772072

Danino, Nina and Maziere, M.. 2002. The Undercut Reader - Critical Writings on Artists' Film and Video, 2002. London: Wallflower Press. ISBN 1903364477

Project

Danino, Nina. 2015-2018 Sorelle Povere Di Santa Chiara.

Danino, Nina. 1980. First Memory (1980-1981).

Show/Exhibition

Danino, Nina. 2017. Jennifer (2015) Screening + Q&A. In: "CTL: Jennifer + Q&A (N/C 12+)", Glasgow Film Theatre, 30 April 2017.

Danino, Nina. 2016. Jennifer + Q&A with Director. In: "Jennifer + Q&A with Director", Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, 14 December 2016.

Danino, Nina. 2016. Close up on Nina Danino. In: "Close up on Nina Danino", Close Up cinema, 6 December 2016.

Danino, Nina. 2016. Stabat Mater + Jennifer + Q&A. In: "Stabat Mater + Jennifer + Q&A", ICA, London, United Kingdom, 13 November 2016.

Danino, Nina. 2016. First Memory (1981) Anthology Film Archives, New York. In: "FROM REEL TO REAL: WOMEN, FEMINISM, AND THE LONDON FROM REEL TO REAL: FILM-MAKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE/COLLAPSING THE FRAME/", Anthology Film Archives, United States, 24 October 2016.

Danino, Nina. 2016. Jennifer (2015), Cambridge Film Festival. In: "Jennifer, Strand: Microcinema, Cambridge Film Festival", Cambridge, United Kingdom, 23 October 2016.

Danino, Nina. 2016. Communion (2010) in That Which Remains, Mount Stuart Visual Arts Programme. In: "That Which Remains", Mount Stuart, United Kingdom, 13 August -30 October 2016.

Danino, Nina. 2016. From Reel to Real: Women, Feminism and the Local Film Makers' Co-Operative. In: "From Reel to Real: Women, Feminism and the Local Film Makers' Co-Operative", Tate Modern, United Kingdom, 23-25 September 2016.

Danino, Nina. 2016. Jennifer (2015) + Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara (2016) in Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scottish Borders, 16 April 2016. In: "Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival", Hawick, United Kingdom, 16 April 2016.

Danino, Nina. 2015. Temenos (1997), Cinema Off, Off, Ghent. In: "Nina Danino Temenos GB/FR, 1998, 75', colour & b&w, digital", Cinema Off Off, Belgium, 25 November 2015.

Danino, Nina. 2015. Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara, multi-media installation 2015 in The Voices of the Sirens , GEMA, Montagu Bastion, Gibraltar. In: "Listen to the Sirens", Gibraltar, Gibraltar, 23 June - 23 August 2015.

Danino, Nina. 2013. Nina Danino "...and the figures in the Alameda gardens" solo exhibition. In: ""...and the figures in the Alameda gardens"", The Garrison Library, Gibraltar, 12 November- 4 December 2013.

Danino, Nina. 2012. Communion (2010) in Comraigh/Sanctuary, Contemporary Visual Art Programme, Mount Stuart, 2012. In: "Contemporary Art Programme", Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, United Kingdom, 23 June-31 October 2012.

Danino, Nina. 2012. The Land seen from the Sea. In: ""The Land seen from the Sea"", Genoa, Italy, 2 February -4 May 2012.

Danino, Nina. 2011. Maya Deren in Context: British Women Filmmakers. In: "Maya Deren in Context: British Women's Filmmaking", BFI Southbank, London, United Kingdom, 9 October 2011.

Danino, Nina and Garavaggio, Giovanni. 2011. L'Ospite et L'Instruso. In: "L’Ospite et L'Instruso", Studio Ermanno Cristini, Varese, Italy, 9-30 April 2011.

Danino, Nina. 2010. Geography of Proximity. In: "Geography of Proximity", Valletta, Malta, 14 October-15 November 2010.

Danino, Nina. 2010. Little Constellation - a vision of contemporary art in geo-cultural micro areas and small European States. In: "Little Constellation - a vision of contemporary art in geo-cultural areas and small European States", Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy, 8 March -8 April 2010.

Danino, Nina. 2010. For the Sake of the Image. In: "For the Sake of the Image", Jerwood Visual Arts, London, United Kingdom, 8 March 2010.

Danino, Nina. 2010. From Floor to Sky - British Sculpture and the Studio Experience. In: "From Floor to Sky - British Sculpture and the Studio Experience", Ambika, P3, London, United Kingdom, 5 March-4 April 2010.

Danino, Nina. 2008. Temenos (1998), Tatton Park Biennal 2008. In: "Tatton Park Biennal 2008", Tatton Park, United Kingdom, 3 May - 28 Sep 2008.

Danino, Nina. 2008. Subversive Film Festival 2008: Hommage 1968. In: "Subversive Film Festival 2008: Hommage 1968", Zagreb, Croatia, 18 - 24 May 2008.

Danino, Nina. 1980. Slide–tape: Key Work in the UK since the 1960s. In: "Slide-tape: Key work in the UK since l980s.", Vivid , Birmingham, United Kingdom, 4 October- 30 November 2012.

Article

Danino, Nina. 2015. Roundtable discussion: The Women of the London Filmmaker’s Co-op. Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), 4(1-2), pp. 164-179. ISSN 2045-6298

Danino, Nina and Maziere, Michael. 2014. Roundtable discussion: London Film-makers’ Co-op – the second generation. Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), 3(2), pp. 236-247. ISSN 2045-6298

Danino, Nina and White, Mary. 2012. “Nina Danino: Capturing an aura – the human presence on film”. Cassone - The International Online Journal for Art and Books.,

Danino, Nina; Joseph-Lester, Jasper; Petresin, Vesna; Laurent, Robert; Crone, Bridget and Zoller, Maxa. 2012. Abstract Image in Future Film and Video Art. Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), 1(2), pp. 79-88. ISSN 2045-6298

Danino, Nina and Boulton, Jack. 2011. Communion. Stimulus Respond, 2011(Summer), pp. 83-92.

Book Section

Danino, Nina. 2019. Filming Women’s Work as Prayer in the Monastery in Jennifer and Sorelle Povere. In: Jane Boyer, ed. Theorem 2018: Doctoral research in the visual arts and design. Cambridge, UK: Ruskin Arts Publications, Anglia Ruskin University, pp. 221-243. ISBN 978-1-912319-00-8

Danino, Nina. 2010. Little Constellation: Contemporary Art in Geo-cultural Micro-areas and small States of Europe. In: Rita Canarezza and Pier Paolo Coro, eds. LIttle Constellation: Contemporary Art in geo-cultural micro-areas and small States of Europe. Milan, Italy: Mousse Publishing, pp. 82-86. ISBN 9788896501078

Danino, Nina. 2010. From Floor to Sky -The Experience of Art School and the teaching of Peter Kardia. In: Peter Kardia; Malcolm Le Grice and Hester Westley, eds. From Floor to Sky -The Experience of Art School and the teaching of Peter Kardia. London: A&C Black, pp. 58-62. ISBN 9781408114995

Danino, Nina. 2007. Stabat Mater - A Nameless Place, Film the Feminine and the Sacred. In: G. Pollock and V. Turvey-Sauron, eds. The Sacred and the Feminine - Imagination and Sexual Difference. I.B.Tauris, p. 288. ISBN 9781845115203

Danino, Nina. 2006. Film, the Body and the Fold. In: J. Hatfield and S. Littman, eds. Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology. John Libbey, pp. 93-101. ISBN 9780861966646

Conference or Workshop Item

Danino, Nina; Canezza, Rita; Coro, Pier Paolo; Mangion, Mark and Racanovic, Svetlana. 2012. 'Little Constellation - Gibraltar Workshop'. In: Little Constellation - Workshop Gibraltar. Gibraltar 7-12th December.

Danino, Nina. 2012. 'Little Constellation - Workshop Gibraltar'. In: Little Constellation- Workshop Gibraltar. Gibraltar, Gibraltar 7-11 December 2012.

Danino, Nina. 2010. 'Attending to the Other: Critical Theory and Spiritual Practice'. In: Attending to the Other: Critical Theory and Spiritual Practice. Faculty of Theology, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom 23rd-26th September 2010.

Danino, Nina and Syder, Larry. 2010. 'For the Sake of the Image'. In: For the Sake of the Image. Jerwood Visual Arts, London., United Kingdom 8 March 2010.

Thesis

Danino, Nina. 2017. Experimental Film - Feminist and Catholic Readings of my films 2010-2016. Doctoral thesis, University of Westminster

Other

Danino, Nina. 2017. Rupture/Rapture/Jouissance : The Religious Trilogy 1990-1997 LUX DVD with essays by Adrian Rifkin, Louise Gray and Nina Danino Published by LUX.. LUX.

Danino, Nina. 2017. Jennifer (2015) DVD. Temporal Films.

Danino, Nina; Coro, Pier Paolo and Canarezza, Rita. 2012. Little Constellation - small States on un-certain stereotypes. Mousse Publsiher, Milan Italy.