Vicky has written extensively on experimental film and animation for a range of academic publications, journals, essays, and for exhibition and artist texts. Her writing reflects a sustained engagement with analogue film practices, material processes, and the relationships between body, technology, and moving image, contributing to critical discourse within both animation studies and experimental film.
Publications include:
- Cycles and Sequences: Research Currents in Animation @UCA, exhibition text – Vicky Smith (2025)
- Hand Drawn and Non-Natural Colour in Films by Barbara Hammer and Sandra Lahire, – Vicky Smith (2021)
- GO, GO, GO! Women in Experimental Animation – an essay (2019)
- Not (A) Part: Handmade animation, materialism and eco-aesthetic cinema, – Vicky Smith (2018)
- BEEF: One Year at the Brunswick Club, – an essay reflection – Vicky Smith (2018)
- Exploring the work of Sandra Lahire – essay for Animation Studies Online – Vicky Smith (2017)
- The Animator’s Body in Expanded Cinema, Volume 10, Issue 3, – Vicky Smith (2015)
- Full Body Film in Sequence, book chapter – Vicky Smith (2013)
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