Jane Madsen

2015. Installation: 16 mm film loop. Animation b&w, 75 seconds (repeating)

2013. Die Insel Ziegenwerder, Frankfurt an der Oder (The goat river island). Installation: Video 5 mins, colour.

2013. Installation: Video 5 mins, colour .

Banks of Wannsee, near Potsdam. The place where Heinrich von Kleist died in 1811.

Portland Nos. 2 – 5 (North of Wallsend Cove to Mutton Cove, Portland Bill, West Weares, Independent quarry, Tout Quarry)

2012. Installation: 2 x 16mm film loops. Colour 10mins approx. Loop 1: cliffs, sea, horizon, weares. Exploration of the cliffs and quarries as a space and landscape and as an architecture of absence at Portland, Dorset, UK. 

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Portland Nos. 2 – 5 (North of Wallsend Cove to Mutton Cove, Portland Bill, West Weares, Independent quarry, Tout Quarry)

2012.  Installation: 2 x 16mm film loops. Colour 10mins approx.  Loop 2: quarries, piles of off-cut stone waste.

Exploration of the cliffs and quarries as space and landscape and as an architecture of absence at Portland, Dorset, UK. 

2013. Installation: 80 glass mounted slides containing 16mm frames.

Slide projector 35mm + timer unit, continuous time projection.

Approximately 7 minutes.

2009. Video 3mins. The places where ideas are wrought.

Screening: conference 25 September 2009, Cambridge University ‘Making Sense Colloquium’ on the work of Jean-Luc Nancy.

2009. 16mm 8mins. Exploration of the Brutalist architecture of the Faraday monument at Elephant and Castle.

Screening: Stones of Menace one day art/architecture event on Brutalism, St. Pauls Bow Common E3, 2010

2002. Helen Kirwan and Jane Madsen.  Video 18 mins colour [Venice/Ghent].

Moving image exploration and critique of the Venice Biennale.

Exhibited: Venetian Drift 2003-2013 Helen Kirwan & Jane Madsen. 2 x screen video 10 mins colour shown in Personal Structures with David Goldenberg & post autonomy group collateral event 55ªEsposizione Internazionale d'Arte la Biennale di Venezia,  Palazzo Bembo.

2002.  16mm 8min film loop.

About the bricks of London.

2002. Video 9min loop. Optimism in the face of dynastic decline.

Based on Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa's The Leopard.

Exhibition: Yesvember, House Gallery, Peckham Rd, London, November 2004.

2002. Video 30min loop. Installation.

The city as habitat.

Screening: The Knowledge Part 1. Video installation, group exhibition, Parallel Realities, Quicksilver Place Gallery, Middlesex University. 2001 

2002. Video installation; group exhibition: M17, Arthouse Gallery,  Lewisham. 

2000.  16mm film loop installation. Group exhibition: Real Bodies, Virtual City. outsidedge lambeth riverside artists collective, St. Peters Heritage Centre, Vauxhall, London.

1999. 16mm 20min colour. 

Exploration of the Lambeth street where the visionary poet and artist William Blake lived. Filmed over four seasons the film excavates the architecture of the mundane, sets fire to the interior world of desire evoking Blake’s belief that the visionary is made from the vernacular.

Screenings: Tate Britain, screened as part of the William Blake Exhibition, November 2000 – January 2001; Anti-Authoritarian Poets on Film, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, 2000. Invited into The 9th Madrid Experimental Film Festival Week, Madrid, Spain. 1999; as video installation invited artist for the international Symposium, Project: Security, Jan van Eyck Akademie Maastricht, Netherlands, 20-23, May 1999

Article:  Jane Madsen 'Hercules Road', Cantrills Film Notes, Nos. 87/88, Melbourne: 1998, pp. 46-51. About the making of my film.

Review: James Swinson ‘The Flâneur and the Shaman: Jane Madsen’s Hercules Road’ Millennium Film Journal Nos 35/36

1994. 16mm 15 mins colour. Found footage Super 8, shot in London, Sydney optically printed to 16 mm

Screenings: part of concert multiple four-film projection with James Swinson & Evan English for Crowded House tour: Wembley Arena, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Dublin etc  

1989. 16mm 75 min, co-production Zero One [London] and Counter Productions [Melbourne].  Co-producer /director/writer with John Cumming and James Swinson. 

Essay documentary about nationalism and cultural identity during Australia’s bicentennial celebrations and the Aboriginal protests against them.  Funded with assistance from Film Victoria.

Broadcasts / screenings:  RTE television, January 1992 Ireland, CAAMA (Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association) 1990; screening Watermans Arts Centre, London, 1990. Print purchased by The Aboriginal Institute, Canberra; Amnesty International Film Festival 1991, Watershed, Bristol. 

Review: Sean Cubitt‘First Time Tragedy, Second Time Farce’  Independent Media Issues 106–107, Dec 1990–Jan 1991