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Jennet Thomas
Originating from inside the lively Underground Film scene of Exploding
Cinema in London in the early 1990¹s, my work has increasingly
had more
exposure in the International arena. Over the last few years it has
featured regularly in the ŒBest of¹ programmes of both the
New York and Chicago
Underground Film Festivals, wining several prizes in US competitions
and screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film
Festival
and many others as far-flung as Taiwan, Norway, Greece, Israel and Australia.
The forms that my films and videos take comes from an eclectic and multiply
discursive history; Underground Live film/performances- reading dislocated
narratives alongside film and slide projections, experiments with animation
and film trick effects, and impulses stemming from my years as a painter
- a curiosity about animating matter and images through time. Regardless
of form, I strive for clarity and accessibility. With challenging human
content often in the foreground, my work generally contains a good amount
of dark humour. A consistent theme is the drive to play with narrative-
an on going experiment with ways of imploding storytelling. Being part
of The Exploding Cinema Collective - putting on lively and
unconventional screening events, entirely outside of any institutional
or establishment constraints and aesthetics, was - and still is- tremendously
liberating. Basic bio Details Born Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK 1963-
the Art Girl in a family of Physicists
Studied Camberwell School of Art, London
(fine art/painting BA) Lives Nunhead, South London, with Filmmaker Paul
Tarragó and cat Olive. Teaches
(BA Fine Art) at Wimbledon School of Art, London.
Is Active founder member of The Exploding Cinema Collective (www.explodingcinema.org)
Also Makes paintings, installations, and objects.
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Title: Sharrony
Show: Mom, Dad I Have Something to Tell You
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