2026
18 April, Le Corps Morcele will screen at Helsinki Analogue
https://www.helsinkianalogfestival.com/film-screenings
12 April, screening of Shedding and in conversation at Cinema Nova, Brussels
https://www.nova-cinema.org/prog/2026/207/bolex/article/vickie-smith
3 April, Shedding and Le Corps Morcele will screen at Courtisane, Belgium
https://www.courtisane.be/en/event/undercurrents-10-wise-women-much-madness-divinest-sense
- International Film Festival Rotterdam – Re:exposure screening
Interbay Cinema Society touring screenings with Lori Goldston. Lori will be performing the Sound/Light/Movement program.
https://www.km28.de
2025
::EXHIBITIONS::
Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London – Shedding
“Vicky Smith’s Shedding (2014) is a moving image self portrait shot in 16mm monochrome. It is a remarkable exploration of the self through the gradual removal of superimposed images. This entrancing four minute film reminds me of William Kentridge’s live action/charcoal animation short Invisible Mending where a similar dissolving and repairing of the self seems to be happening. Both films are consoling representations of the struggle to become whole in a world where the forces of fragmentation seem to be in the ascendant.” – David Andrews, Londonblog
Cycles and Sequences: Research currents in animation @ UCA, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham – Deliquesce
Making a Scene, Launderette, Bristol – Unlikeness series installation
::Screenings::
- Attaqueer le visible , Bodies in Space and Time, Engauge Film Festival, Seattle – Le Corps Morcele
- Other Cinema, Kino Critters, San Francisco – Not (A Part)
- Films of the Sea in 16mm, Promenade Weekender, Weston-super-Mare – Deliquesce
- Sound, Light, Movement: Solo Cello + Handmade Film, Cube Cinema, Bristol – Shedding with live score by Lori Goldston
- Cinéma expérimental & image en mouvement, Nantes, France – Shedding
- Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia – Shedding
- Forms of Care Shorts, Istanbul Experimental – Not (A) Part & Noisy Licking, Dribbling and Spitting
- Experimental Cinema: Dark into Light, Southampton Film Week at John Hansard Gallery – Not(A)Part
- Beautiful Bodies exhibition, Union Art Gallery, Wisconsin, US – Le Corps Morcele
- Laboratorio Audio Visual (LAV), Madrid – Shedding
- TERRAFORM: Life of Forms, Scratch Collection, Paris – Noisy Licking, Dribbling & Spitting
- Breaking Codes in Cinema Different and Experimental, Paris – Le Corps Morcele screening
- FAMU Akademie, Prague – Not (A) Part
- Be Water my Friend: an Animation Intervention, Fort Mason Centre, San Francisco, US – Shedding
- Tricky Women Animation Festival, Vienna – Shedding
- Transgressions, Filmclub, Bolzano, Italy – Shedding
- Cinematic Symbiosis, Cinema Troisi – Shedding
- Seoul Independent Film Festival – Not (A) Part
- This is Film, Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam – Small Things Moving in Unison
- Association Monoquini, Bordeaux – Shedding
- Ruins and Resilience, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan US – Small Things Moving in Unison
- On Chantal Akerman’s Dis Moi, Watershed Cinema, Bristol – talk
2024
Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema, touring programme: Toronto, Chicago, Montréal, London – Not (a) part
Film Talks by Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne, is a collection of unique conversations on experimental cinema. The book represents a snapshot of diverse ways that several practitioners have come to think about the field of experimental cinema, in relation to other art forms, moving image culture at large, and wider social issues. This touring film programme features over twenty 16mm films and video works by several of the artists who feature in Film Talks, drawing out new ideas and connections that span different visions of cinema.
::SCREENINGS::
- Engauge, Live Music and Film, Seattle, US – Shedding
- Bodies, Forces, Stone Jetty, Morecombe – various films
- Cinema Parenthèse #44: Experimental Animation Films, Brussels – various films
- https://www.mire-exp.org/evenement/wandering-screening-3/
- https://cjcinema.org/en/agenda/2024/octobre/lanimal-anime/ Not (a) part in ‘Animals Animate’, CJC Paris
- https://cjcinema.org/en/documentation-center/fcdep/26e-edition/competition/shedding/
- https://www.imageforumfestival.com/2024/en/program-n LIVING MATERIA OF FILM: by Emmanuel LEFRANT
2023
- Dwelling, curated by Payne and Vallance, Frieze, London – Re:exposure
- Celluloid Now, Chicago, US – Not (a)part
- Zero De Conduite, Festival Obskura, Rennes, France – Re:exposure
2022
40 Years of Light Cone, Paris – 33 Frames per Foot performance
Behind the Scenes Studio visit at Spike Island
A chance to explore artists’ and makers’ studios, see their working environments, processes and works-in-progress.
In this studio visit, meet artist filmmaker and academic Vicky Smith who has worked in experimental animation and film for over 30 years. Her work has been screened in galleries and at festivals internationally and she is a co-founder of artist collective Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF). In this talk, Smith shares her artistic practice, some recent works and wider interests around analogue film production and education, collectivism, and modes of presentation with Spike Island assistant curator Rosa Tyhurst.
2021
- Raw Vision (U*)Splash, Scratch, Dunk! Films Made by Hand, Barbican, London – Noisy Licking, Dribbling and Spitting
2018
Into the Mothlight is a podcast dedicated to artists’ moving image, experimental film and festivals and installation art. We talk to artists, programmers and curators, film festival producers and anyone else we meet whose work we enjoy or who we think you’ll find interesting. We will be asking people about what inspires them, how they approach their work, the highs and lows, how as artists we deal with criticism and self-doubt, and anything else that comes up. I spoke with Jason from Into the Mothlight Podcast at the Brunswick Club, about Bristol Experimental Expanded Film.
Vicky Smith 