Director
Simon Payne
20 films
Simon Payne’s experimental video works have been shown in numerous international film festivals, cinemas and art galleries including: Anthology Film Archives, New York; the Ann Arbor, Edinburgh, London and Rotterdam international film festivals; the European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück; Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco; Media City Festival, Windsor, Ontario; the Serpentine Gallery; Whitechapel Gallery; Camden Arts Centre; Tate Britain and Tate Modern; and the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. His videos are distributed by LUX (London), Lightcone (Paris) and are also kept at the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection at Central St. Martins College of Art. He has written widely on experimental cinema for a number of journals and magazines and recently co-edited the book Kurt Kren: Structural Films with A.L. Rees and Nicky Hamlyn. Simon Payne has also often curated and introduced film programmes internationally. He is Reader in Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and lives in London.
Best known for
Filmography 20
Greyscale
2025 · Director
Intervals
2023 · Director
YES/NO
2021 · Director
Edges: Ladders
2018 · Director
Edges: Waves
2018 · Director
Set Theory I-IV
2018 · Director
Primitive Cinema
2015 · Director
NOT AND OR
2014 · Director
Cut Out
2013 · Director
On DocAlliance Films
Twice Over
2012 · Director
Vice Versa Et Cetera
2010 · Director
Point Line Plane
2010 · Director
Iris Out
2008 · Director
New Ratio
2007 · Director
Double Negative
2005 · Director
Colour Bars
2004 · Director
Monitor
2002 · Director
Vertical Composition
2002 · Director
Black and White
2001 · Director
May
1998 · Director