Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors, Matthew Noel-Tod (2006)

 

 

Biography/CV
Matthew Noel-Tod was born 1978 in Stoke-on-Trent. His films reframe narrative cinema in relation to experimental moving image, conceptual art, philosophy and literature. He is a founding member of the critical film group Free Cinema Seven and lives and works in London.

Education
Norwich School of Art and Design,
BA (Hons)Fachhochschule Aachen, Germany, BA (Hons): Erasmus
Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, BA (Hons) Fine Art

 

Solo Exhibitions & Screenings
2008
ICA Nought to Sixty (curated by Richard Birkett) (Solo Film Screening), ICA, London
Blind Carbon Copy, Picture This, Bristol
Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors (Andrzej Wajda season), British Film Institute, London

2007
Transmission: Host: in conversation with Nick Stewart, Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
New Lands: Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors, BFI Southbank NFT 3, London
Light reading: in conversation with William Fowler, Nowhere, London
Nausea, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich
Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors, Whitechapel Project Space, London

2006
Nausea, Outpost Gallery, Norwich
Kino.Lab, Centrum Sztuki Wspó?czesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, CCA, Warsaw
Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors, British Film Institute, London

2005
Kino.Lab, Centrum Sztuki Wspó?czesnej Zamek Ujazdowsk, CCA, Warsaw
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

2004
Atomic, Cooper Gallery, discparc festival, University of Dundee, Dundee
Lux Salon (with films by David Lamelas and Peter Gidal), LUX, London

2003
Atomic, Unit B (Gallery), Chicago
Detroit Art Space, Detroit
Videos by Matthew Noel-Tod, Primary Space Gallery, Detroit
Ulysses Italian Cinema, The Frontier Gallery, Norwich

 

Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings
2008
Here Once Again - Where Art and Cinema Interact, Gallery Loop, Seoul, South Korea
Operations, Free Cinema Seven, Outpost Gallery, Norwich

2007
Operations, Free Cinema Seven, Alternative Film and Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
Operations, Free Cinema Seven, O3one Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Festival de Videoarte del Mercado de las Flores (curated by Keith Patrick), Madrid
Antennae (curated by Madeline Yale), Houston Centre for Photography, Houston, USA
European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany
Artefacts (curated by David Curtis), Mezzanine Gallery BFI Southbank, London
Selective Affinities (curated by Jan Mladovsky), Školská 28, Prague, Czech Republic
Selective Affinities (curated by Jan Mladovsky), Outpost Gallery, Norwich

2006
La Rada (programmed by PLAY Platform for Film and Video, Berlin), Locarno, Switzerland
Numero festival (programmed by Film London), Lisbon
Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
26th Cambridge Film Festival (programmed by James Mackay), Cambridge, UK
Fair Play 2006 Video Festival, PLAY - Gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin
Reconstructing the Mundane, Unit B (Gallery), San Antonio, USA
5th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam

2005
Video London, Espai Ubu (curated by Keith Patrick), Barcelona
49th London Film Festival, National Film Theatre (programmed by Mark Webber), London
Schimatizo, Greek Orthodox Church of St Constantine & Helen, London
Provopolis, Norwich
tank.tv Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) Video Art Week, Berlin
International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005, National Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Castlefield Gallery film programme, Manchester
tank.tv Stella Artois After Dark Cinema tour, Manchester / Birmingham / Cardiff / London
Urban Films Tribe Art project / Artwise Curators (international tour), Various venues
a friend is a friend is a friend, Axtryx, San Antonio
Collective Gallery film programme, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Contemporary Patrons Group Launch, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Angel Row Gallery film programme, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham
Resonance FM benefit, The Horse Hospital, London
Tonight We Are Golden, S1 salon tour (curated by Michelle Cotton), Various venues, UK

2004
Gasworks Gallery film programme, with S1 Artspace (curated by Michelle Cotton), London
no.w.here lab launch, London
Artprojx Cinema Series Two, Prince Charles Cinema, London
Kosmopolis 04 / Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona
Seoul Net & Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
tank.tv presents moving images at Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Salthouse 04 (curated by Manuel Chetcuti), Salthouse, UK
Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
Island Film and Video Festival, Prenelle Gallery, London
De-centred, Norwich Gallery and live web stream, Norwich
Grazer Kunstverein (curated by Transmission Gallery, Glasgow), Graz, Austria

2003
S1 salon, S1 Artspace (curated by Michelle Cotton), Sheffield
Transmission Member’s Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Shortcutz 2 Video Art and Shorts Festival Peradesso 2003, Omenga, Italy
23rd Cambridge Film Festival, Shortfusion Audience Prize nominee, Cambridge
25hrs (curated by Manuel Saiz), Barcelona
LUX Open, Royal College of Art, London
Rotterdam VHS Festival, Rotterdam
Use Your Illusion, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow

2002
Cinema Sculptuur, The Hague, Netherlands
Media Arts Friesland, Friesland, Netherlands
The Peterborough Prize, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Peterborough
No Sleep ‘til Hammersmith, Central Space, London
Love and Happiness, CCA, Glasgow + Ritzy Cinema, London
The One Minutes Biennale and DVD published, Centraal Museum Utrecht

2001
Salto TV broadcast, Salto TV, Netherlands
291 Gallery Hackney, London

2000
Wandsworth Film Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, London
The One Minutes, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam

1999
Norwich Gallery, Norwich

 

Selected Awards and Residencies
2008
Film London Bristol Mean Time Residency – Picture This, Bristol

2007
LUX Associate Artists Programme (Funded by The Leverhulme Trust)

2006
Arts Council England Grants for the arts

2005
ACE International Fellowship - Centrum Sztuki Wspó?czesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw

2004
Film London - London Artists’ Film and Video Awards
Arts Council England Grants for the arts

2003
Arts Council England Grants for the arts

2000/01
Le Collegium Sacilense, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Italy

 

Selected Reviews
2007
Antennae, Houston Centre for Photography; Ludwin, Torie, Arts Houston, Houston, p29, June
A History of Artists’ Film and Video in Britain; Curtis, David, British Film Institute, London

2006
Motion Sickness: Matthew Noel-Tod’s Nausea Ball, Steven; Vertigo (magazine): For Worldwide Independent Film, Spring / Summer
The Sequence of Feelings of the Men of Iron; Dubrowska, Magdalena, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland, 30th November
First Night Reviews Tonight We Are Golden; Glover, Michael; The Times, London, p31, Arts News, 16/03/05

2004
Godard is God. Matthew Noel-Tod; Time Out Film London Supplement; Evans, Gareth; Time Out, London, UK, p30, 22/09/04
Catalogue for Salthouse 04, introductory essay by Manuel Chetcuti
Schottische Weltsicht Review of Transmission at Grazer Kunstverein (Atomic); Eisner, Michael; Steirerkrone, Graz, Austria, 10/02/04
Subversiv – teils konstruktiv Review of Transmission at Grazer Kunstverein (Atomic); Tragatschnig, Ulrich; Der Standard, Graz, Austria, 10/02/04

2003
Art People: Matthew Noel-Tod’s copycat career Artist profile/interview re: Atomic; Camper, Fred; Chicago Reader, p29, section one, 28/11/03
A room of one’s own Review of Atomic; Workman, Michael; New City, Chicago, p18, 11/13/03
Roam free at these art galleries Review of Atomic; Zoltak, Benjamin; Red Streak, Chicago p27, 28/11/03

 

Publications
2008
Ulysses Italian Cinema: Matthew Noel-Tod, Sheffield Hallam University

2006
Words Images Music (Nausea): Matthew Noel-Tod, Publisher: Outpost Gallery, Norwich
Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors: Matthew Noel-Tod, Publisher: Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej ISBN 83-85142-23-1

 

Television and Radio
2007
“Free Cinema Seven” television news feature, SOS channel, Belgrade, Serbia 11/09and 12/09/07

2006
“Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors premiere” interview and news feature, Radio Warsaw, Poland, June

2005
“Interview with Matthew Noel-Tod” interview and news feature, Radio Warsaw, Poland, November

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