Nina Danino

Nina Danino was born in Gibraltar and studied Foundation and Painting at St. Martin’s School of Art (1973-1977) and Environmental Media at the Royal College of Art (1979-1981) London, where she used slide/tape and 16mm film. In the multi-media, two screen work, First Memory (1980-1981) she combined the subjective voice and narrative with formal and structural approaches to the moving and still image as a means of enabling a feminine perspective. She made 16mm experimental films in the ambit of the London Filmmakers’ Co-op. Her films 1981-1987 combined elliptical and observational narrative to inscribe and defer the representation of the woman. Her films 1990-1997 mix religious iconography with psychoanalysis as a discourse and the use of performative voice and song. Stabat Mater (1990) is considered a seminal film of the British avant-garde. Her films “lead us on journeys through altered states, religious experiences and emotional landscapes,sometimes to the edge of the representable...