Jennifer is an experimental filmmaker, practice-based researcher and educator.
Using unique methods of film production, Jennifer's practice-based research highlights the interplay between the production processes used – hand cranking and a self-instigated time-lapse – with the film’s presentation at 24 frames a second, creating rhythm and presenting patterns over time.
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Awards
Further2 Residency. Funded by Artquest, Film London and No.w.here Lab (2007)
Current and recent projects
The pinhole film series (2001 – present) removes the lens and motor of the camera exposing images and traces of light directly onto the film strip. Whilst the film was moved through a film magazine by hand the other controlled the exposure of light through the pinhole. The films explore the relationship between the two temporal events and how the respective elements of movement and stasis in each combine to present light as trace and pulse.
The Knitting Film series (2006 – present) uses a unique timelapse method to translate a knitted stitch from a knitting pattern into a frame of film, whereby the single frame exposure release of a Bolex camera is used rather than a mechanical crystal synch motor. This self- instigated timelapse allows for new presentations of time and movement that are dependent on the rhythms of the filmmaker who exposes the film frames by hand. The films production processes intersect with the networks of activity of the films subject, composed in the frame. Pattern is presented as an outcome of repetition, alternation and sequence.
Screenings and exhibitions
2024 Shhh 2024 ~ Cinema Parenthèse. Walden: Sea Sights: Ostend. Belgium
2024 Filaments series. Tacoma Art Museum. US
2024 Textile Cinema. Close Up Cinema. London
2018 Colour Journeys: Natural Dyeing in Contemporary Practice, Ditchling Museum
2017 Frame Shift, StrangeLove Festival, Folkestone
2017 Holding Space: an evening of film, video, sound and performance; The Brick Cube, London
2016 Contact: A festival of New Experimental Film and Video. Apiary Studio, London
2016 Lighting Up the Dark Symposium. Cinema House, Denison University, Ohio.
2016 Regional Support Network. CineCycle, Toronto.
2016 Moving Still. Rough Print Gallery, London.
2015 Negative Light: Recent Experimental Film and Video from the UK. Microscope gallery, New York.
2013 Movement in Light: Pure Figures in Motion, National Portrait Gallery, London.
2008 Kinetic Colour, Tate Modern, London.
2008 Aleatory Colour, Gehry Pavilion, Serpentine Gallery, London.
2005 Curzon Soho, London: in association with ‘Werner Nekes: Eyes, Lies and Illusion’ at the Hayward Gallery, London.
2003 New Film and Video Artists, Film Anthology Archives, New York.
Publications
Nightingale, J. 2019. Cornish Knitting Pattern Series. Journal of Illustration, Volume 6, Number 1, Intellect, pp.205-223.
Nightingale, J. 2019. Cornish Knitting Pattern Charts. International Journal of Film and Media Arts, Winter edition, Volume 4, Number 2, pp.50-59.