Cycles and Sequences: Research Currents in Animation @ James Hockey Gallery, UCA
Curated by Vicky Smith, Cycles and Sequences featured more than twenty different artworks on display in the James Hockey Gallery in Farnham along with a number of entirely new collaborations in expanded animation.
What is the cutting edge of animation? In July 2025, staff and PhD researchers from the Animation Research Centre at UCA came together to present Cycles and Sequences: Research Currents in Animation with interdisciplinary works of expanded animation that span the disciplines of animation, games, photography, design, illustration and music. Alongside installation, sequential drawings, animated documentary, experimental CGI, AI, animation machines and live 16mm performances were items from UCA’s animation archives.
BEEF programme bringing together artists’ film, expanded cinema and performance. Additionally, workshop sessions by invited artists and BEEF members provide opportunities to learn new techniques and processes across film and sound to inform a broad exploration of experimental arts practices.
This is part of a BEEF curated programme series that shines a light on experimental and expanded film practices homegrown in the city and beyond.
Go, Go, Go! Women in Experimental Animation, BEEF @ Cube Cinema (2021)
Animation for Live Action
Handmade Animation
The Crafty Animator
A three-part programme of women in experimental animated film.
Since the days of early cinema and through to the present, animated film has attracted female practitioners who have been finding their own methods for working with the medium whilst contributing to its development. The films within this programme deploy modes of humour, irony, absurdity, the grotesque, mystery, beauty and defiance where qualities of shape, colour, texture, light, materiality and movement and questions of process itself are given priority.
Low Light: Interrogating the image of the female, BEEF @ Brunswick Club (2019)
A night of live cinema and performance old and new at BEEF in The Brunswick Club: home for experimental & expanded cinema. Breath in the dark. To celebrate the darkness and depthless space of the Brunswick basement, collectiv-iz (re) present the rarely experienced Matches (Annabel Nicolson, 1975), as well as their own para-cinematic works: Light Time (Dickson, 2013); Media Blackout (Johns, 2017) and Lightning Strikes (Anastassiou, 2013). Gill Eatherley performed her celebrated expanded cinema shadow work; Aperture Sweep.
Women in Punk & No Wave – Film & Music @ Brunswick Club, 2019
A stimulating day-long event looking at how Punk created a new type of space for women and shaped alternative ways of looking and seeing, listening and hearing, speaking and shouting, dancing, dressing and protesting.This inclusive event is open to all and considers an alternative to the prevalent punk narrative.
Film & Discussion: Vivienne Dick / Rachel Garfield & films by Ruth Novaczek, Sandra Lahire & Anne Robinson
Workshop: Resistance Keening
Music & performance: Bellies! / Dali de Saint Paul (EP/64) / Resistance Keening Performance / Delirious Rhythm
Vicky Smith 