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A. L. Rees

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Alan Leonard Rees (18 May 1949 – 28 November 2014) was a British writer and teacher on film who celebrated and promoted experimental filmmaking. He was also active in the London Film-Makers' Co-op, advised the Arts Council, the British Film Institute, the Tate Gallery and the Arts & Humanities Research Council.[1]

He was the author of A History of Experimental Film and Video (2011, Second Edition, 2019), which remains an influential and standard textbook on the subject. Until his retirement, he was a tutor in visual communication at the Kent Institute of Art & Design formerly known as Maidstone College of Art and later the Royal College of Art in London.[2]

Bibliography

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  • A History of Experimental Film and Video, BFI Publishing, 2011, 208 p. ISBN 978-1844574360
  • A History of Experimental Film and Video, BFI Publishing, 2019, 208 p. ISBN 8601406765863

References

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  1. ^ "AL Rees: Writer and teacher who made a formidable advocate for the study of the moving image as an artist's medium - People - News". Independent.co.uk. 26 February 2015. Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  2. ^ "AL Rees obituary". Guardian.co.uk. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2018.