Vicky Smith Trailers
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Vicky Smith's (UK) work in experimental animation explores the vulnerable and vital body. Her work has screened internationally in galleries and festivals including, in 2021: A Picture of Health at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Raw Vision in Splash, Scratch, Dunk! Films Made by Hand at London Barbican; and Bodies and Boundaries, Cinenova UK. She runs workshops in experimental film practice and has curated many film screenings, including recently Go, Go, Go! Women in Experimental Animation (2019). Publications include: Hand Drawn and Non-Natural Colour in Films by Barbara Hammer and Sandra Lahire in Animation Studies Online (2021); Experimental & Expanded Animation: Current Perspectives and Practices, co-edited with Nicky Hamlyn (2018), and in Animation Practice, Production & Process, Issue 7 (2019).
Most Popular Vicky Smith Trailers
Total trailers found: 12
04 March 2018
Perforations made directly into 16mm black leader attempt what Sitney describes in relation to Breer’s 70 as ‘five-frame holds’, whereby methods used to control the movement of onscreen forms have the effect of retarding motion.
01 January 1997
Skin and flesh erupt as memories penetrate and distort the surface and the film emulsion is also ripped open.
22 October 2016
Primal is an abstract animation made directly onto unprocessed fogged negative by rubbing and scraping the film and releasing its light.
01 January 2014
Made with the mouth alone, 'Noisy Licking Dribbling + Spitting' is a direct animation that takes the idea of licking as a primary and semi-automatic action.
23 September 2021
The film is a reflection on exposure, of skin to sun and of film to light and the environmental, ecological, social and hereditary factors that impact the aging process.
12 October 2025
Animation, performance and hand processed black&white film combine to describe the body repeatedly succumbing to gravity and to horizontality.
28 September 2019
Conceived in relation to both the rapid decline of flying insects and the high recurrence of animation, Not (a) part is handmade or contact film that works with the subject and/or material of flying insects.
01 January 1995
An exploration of intimacy and the material environment of the home, using paint, drawing and stop- motion.
17 December 2023
A comparison between animation and continuous motion, Spinning uses various filming speeds in relation to the performing body, and with reference to a memory of Wonder Woman.
17 December 2023
A performance for the Bolex camera in which dimensions of stasis and movement are physically enacted by filming at varying frame rates.
26 August 2022
Deliquesce is made up of three short takes, or three long breaths. For each 25-second take, Smith would inhale and submerge herself in the shallow waves before hand winding the camera to take the next shot.
01 January 1989
An innovative animation touching on a series of interlinked concerns around issues of intensive farming, animal slaughter, famine, the Food Mountains of the West and devastation of the rain forests.
