PATTI GAAL-HOLMES

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I am an artist/filmmaker and historian who was born in Johannesburg, South Africa to German and Hungarian immigrants. I lived/travelled in various countries before settling in England to study for a BA (Hons) Visual Art and an AHRB-funded Masters in Painting at Winchester School of Art. In 2006 I took up an AHRC-funded research scholarship in film at the University of Portsmouth, resulting in the publication A History of 1970s British Experimental Film: Britain’s Decade of Diversity (2015). My research-informed practice includes working with analogue photography and film, artists’ books and writing. The film Liliesleaf Farm Mayibuye was screened at the 60th BFI Film Festival. The exhibition ‘into the frameless distance – city of (no) memory’, informed by my father’s escape from Hungary, was recently exhibited in Portsmouth. I am a Senior Lecturer in Film Production at Arts University Bournemouth.