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This website accompanies the book Experimental Cinema: Structures, Systems and Strategies by Simon Payne (BFI/Bloomsbury 2026).

It is a repository of links to several of the films and videos that are covered in the book. It is a work in progress, with additional links forthcoming.

Please note, the content is only visible on a desktop screen.

The links below are compiled under the chapter headings of the book, corresponding with the order in which the films and videos are discussed.

Many of them have been provided by the artists themselves. Sometimes the links take viewers to secondary sources such as UbuWeb and Youtube, or distributors that charge a small fee. All of the work listed here is available to hire for public screenings and exhibitions. (Distributors include LUX [London], Lightcone [Paris] and the Film-makers Cooperative [NYC].) Any opportunity to see it in its original format is highly recommended.

Three Ss​
Stephen Littman

The Enlightenment (2016)

By candlelight​: Elemental cinema and flicker
Neil Henderson

Portrait of Evan Parker (2010)

Three Studies in Geography (2011)

Grain Tower (2016)

Candle (2017)

Savinder Bual

Flicker (2005)

​​​​​​Constructivism into film​: Systems art and Guy Sherwin
Guy Sherwin

Painted Screen Series (1970–2023)

At the Academy (1974)

Darrell Viner

Inside/Outside (1976)

Games and challenges in artists' films and videos

Jenny Baines

Insertional (2014)

Slackline (2018)

Unrehearsed Dance Moves (2022)

Gyration (2023)

Traction (2023)

Inflated (Double) Struggle (2018)

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Lenghts and lines: artists' filmstrips
Bea Haut

Pending (2016)

Lis Rhodes

Light Music (1975–77)

Lynn Loo

Washi MM (2017)

Cathy Rogers

Rosemary, Again and Again (2013)

Matches: Responses to Annabel Nicolson's expanded cinema
Mary Stark

Film as Fabric (2013–17)

Maria Anastassiou

Lightning Strikes (2013)

Deniz Johns

Media Blackout II (2017)

Primary structures: David Hall's sculpture of the screen
 

Quartets and quadrants: Nicky Hamlyn
 

Signals: Teaching learning and positive feedback
Guy Sherwin

Paper Landscape (1975–)

Karoliona Raczynski

Skype Call (2011)

Tree again: Chris Welsby

Estuary (1980)

Vide0void: David Larcher and Anthony McCall
Anthony McCall

Line Describing a Cone (1973)

Between You and I (2006)

Zeros and ones: Abstract digital cinema
Simon Payne

Iris Out (2008)

Vice Versa Et Cetera (2010)

Colour Bars (2004)

Intervals (2023)

Edges: 'Waves' and 'Ladders' (2018)

NOT AND OR (2014)

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