Fields of View: Film, Art and Spectatorship - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

A.L. Rees was Head of the Time-Based Media course at Maidstone College of Art from 1988 - 1995 and then Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art until 2014. At various times he was the chair of the Arts Council's artists' film and video committee, and an adviser on experimental film to the British Film Institute, Tate, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Channel 4. His book A History of Experimental Film and Video (BFI, 1999/2011) remains a key text, supplemented by the wide range of essays he wrote for journals and books on film and art.

Simon Payne is a video artist whose work has shown in numerous international film festivals, cinemas and art galleries, including Tate Modern, the Serpentine Gallery, The Hermitage, St Petersburg and the London, Edinburgh and Rotterdam Film Festivals. He has written widely on experimental cinema, co-edited the book Kurt Kren: Structural Films (2016) and edited Fields of View: Film, Art and Spectatorship (2020), a posthumous book by A.L. Rees. He is Associate Professor in Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.