Dr Nina Danino

Professional Practice

Dr Nina Danino is an artist and filmmaker. She has made experimental narrative films which centre on self-inscription, the feminine and the subjective voice. She has written on the women and experimental film and is co-editor of the Undercut Reader - Critical Writings on Artists’ Film and Video ( Wallflower Press 2002).

Her filmography starts in 1981, she established her film career in the ambit of the London Filmmakers’ Co-op in the 1980s and as a member of the Undercut Editorial collective. She has produced worked across a wide range of media and formats including 16mm, 35mm and feature length film. Her recent work includes film and sound installation and stand alone audio. Her interests are in film and cinema as forms of transporting experiences. She has worked with the performativity of the voice in film using her own spoken voice and has worked with vocalists and singers.

Her recent feature documentary Jennifer (2015) is part of a series of works she made between 2013-2016 with monastic communities of women, the other works being Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara; a single chanel video of interviews and a 6-chanel audio installation (2015) and 16mm film (2016).

Location Still:  I Die of Sadness Crying for You (2019)  

Academic Qualifications

• 1973-74 St. Martin's School of Art, London , Foundation
• 1974-77 St. Martin's School of Art, London  Painting. BA (Hons) Fine Art
• 1979-81 Royal College of Art,  Environmental Media, MA RCA

Teaching

Prior to lecturing at Goldsmiths in 2000, she taught at Camberwell School of Art (1993-2000), The Architectural Association School of Architecture (1996-1999) and Sheffield Hallam University (1990-1993)

She served as an external examiner for International Film School Wales, University of Wales’ BA Film and Media and MA Film programmes (2002-2005)

She teaches on the BA Fine Art and also contributes to the Department through PhD supervision in moving image, artists’ film, women’s cinema.

Professional Projects

Dr Nina Danino has shown her films at major international festivals including; Edinburgh, London, Rotterdam, Ann Arbor, Alchemy, Chicago, Feminale Cologne, Cambridge, Huelva. They have been broadcast on Ch 4, Kunst Kanaal TV Amsterdam, SBS-TV Australia. They have been exhibited worldwide in cinemas including; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Arsenal, Berlin, Lux, London, STUC, Leuven, Entrepot, Paris, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco, Tate Britain, Cinema Off off, Ghent, Tate Modern and in art spaces and museums including; National Gallery of Iceland, Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Photo España Madrid, Mount Stuart, Ambika P3, Malta Contemporary Art Foundation, CAC Malaga.

In 2015-2016 she has shown at Glasgow Film Theatre, ExeterPhoenix, ICA Cinema, London, Estepona TV, Spain, Anthology Film Archives, New York, Cambridge Film Festival, From Reel to Real: Women, Feminism and the London Film-makers’ Co-operative, Tate Modern, GBC TV, Venice Film Week, That Which Remains, Mount Stuart Contemporary Visual Arts, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Gibraltar Leisure Cinemas, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Visions in the Nunnery.

Her work has received major awards from the Arts Council, National Lottery, Channel 4, British Film Institute. Her recent feature film Jennifer (2015) has been broadcast and received theatrical release. In 2016 she had a retrospective of her films at Closeup Filmcentre, London.

Monographs on her work are: Visionary Landscapes ed. Catherine Grant, Black Dog Publishing 2005

“…and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens”, Mousse Publishing 2013