Artists Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais have been collaborating since 2010, primarily working with moving image and performance. Central to their work is an investigation into the language of moving images, exploring how narrative and meaning are constructed. Whether making films for gallery or cinema, the subjects of creativity, imagination and the purpose of art are always present. Drawing equally on the histories of both painting and cinema, their films rest strongly on a process of visual experimentation and the transformation of the recorded image.

Daniel & Clara have made over 150 moving image works, including 9 feature-length films. Their work has been exhibited and screened internationally at galleries and film festivals including BFI, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Fabrica Gallery, Doclisboa, Microcinema Artist Moving Image, Cinemateca do MAM Rio de Janeiro, Black Box Farnham, Film Mutations Zagreb, Brighton Cine-city, Palácio das Artes Porto, and Firstsite Gallery.

Alongside their work as artists they have also programmed screenings in the UK and abroad, and they publish Film Panic Magazine, a publication dedicated to contemporary artist moving image and experimental film featuring interviews, essays, manifestos and diaries.

In May 2019 they launched the Moving Image Salon, a monthly gathering for artists working with moving image to meet, share and discuss their work. These take place at Film and Video Umbrella, London.

They have written for a number of publications, including AN Magazine, The Art(s) of Slow Cinema Journal, Hambre Dossier: Aberrant Intervals, Mr Bickford Discovers a New Land (Topalian & Milani Verlag, Germany) Microcinema Artists Moving Image: Then And Now (Cambridge Film Trust, UK) and Luminous Void: EFS Documents (Experimental Film Society, Ireland).

Several of their films are distributed by The Underground Film Studio and are available on DVD & VOD.

Witches Walk and Witches Walk Monochrome are currently distributed online by Tao Films.

 

Exhibitions and Screenings (selected)

2019   Wirksworth Arts Festival, UK
2019   Last Thursday Film Club, The Printworks, Hastings, UK
2019   Exploding Appendix Avant-Garde Research Group, Brighton, UK
2019   Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2019   The Bomb Factory, London, UK
2019   Birkbeck Cinema, London, UK
2019   Kino London, Candid Arts, London, UK
2019   The Hazel Eye Film Festival, USA
2019   Indielisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
2019   Open Projections: Coventry Cathedral, UK
2019   Experimenta Mixtape, BFI, London, UK

2018   CRASH Festival, Goiânia, Brazil
2018   Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK
2018   Exploding Appendix, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
2018   Doclisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
2018   Gardunha Fest, Fundão, Portugal
2018   Experimental Film Society, Filmwerkplaats, WORM Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018   Gorst Underground Film Festival, Gorst, WA, USA
2018   DOBRA – Festival Int’l de Cinema Experimental, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018   Bideodromo: International Experimental Film Festival, Bilbao, Spain
2018   Pugnant Film Series, Athens, Greece
2018   Exploding Appendix Avant-Garde Research Group, Brighton, UK
2018   CineAutopsia – Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá, Colombia
2018   Suspaustas Laikas Film Festival, Nida, Lithuania
2018   Station to Station, Tallinn, Estonia
2018   Risco Cinema, Cinemateca do Museu Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018   South Texas Underground Film Festival, Corpus Christi, TX, USA

2017   Station to Station, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017   PA!, Rosa Imunda, Porto, Portugal
2017   Station to Station, Warsaw, Poland
2017   Portland Underground Film Festival, Portland, OR, USA
2017   SeventySeven, Bristol, UK
2017   Black Box, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
2017   Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
2017   Moon Moths, MacArts Centre, Galashiels, UK
2017   Forest Happenings, Edinburgh, UK

2016   Casa das Artes, Porto, Portugal
2016   Cinema Passos Manuel, Porto, Portugal
2016   Microcinema Artist’s Moving Image, Cambridge Film Festival, UK
2016   UFilm, Bucharest, Romania
2016   South Texas Underground Film Festival, Corpus Christi, TX, USA
2016   San Diego Underground Film Festival, USA
2016   The Magick Cinema, Birmingham, UK
2016   Experimental Film Society, Filmbase, Dublin, Ireland
2016   Andrómeda + Shortcutz Porto, Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal
2016   EmContraste, ESE Porto, Portugal
2016   Raw Territories Gatherings – Music and Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
2016   Palácio das Artes, Porto, Portugal
2016   SeventySeven, Bristol, UK

2015   Microcinema Artist’s Moving Image, Cambridge Film Festival, UK
2015   Cultivate Film Club, Manchester, UK

2014   Circuito Nomadica, Benevento, Italy
2014   Scalarama 2014, SeventySeven, Bristol, UK
2014   Wrong Directions Cinetent at Nozstock Festival, Herefordshire, UK
2014   Portugal Underground Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
2014   Vagrant Film Festival, Belarus
2014   Circuito Nomadica, Bologna, Italy
2014   Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland, UK
2014   Silvestre Concertos & Film Screening, Porto, Portugal

2013   STUFF Second Monday Screenings, Corpus Christi, USA
2013   Film Mutations, Festival of Invisible Cinema, Zagreb, Croatia
2013   PollyGrind Underground Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2013   South Texas Underground Film Festival, Corpus Christi, TX, USA
2013   Portobello Film Festival, London, UK
2013   Portugal Underground Film Festival, New York, USA
2013   International Festival of Cinema Libre, Hamburg, Germany
2013   Cinema Culture, Chicago, USA

2012   Experijam, Cowley Club, Brighton, UK
2012   London Underground Film Festival, UK
2012   Brighton Cine-city Film Festival, UK
2012   Microcinema Artist’s Moving Image, Cambridge Film Festival, UK

 

Talks & Lectures

2019   Exploding Appendix Avant-Garde Research Group, Brighton, UK
2018   University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
2017   Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
2017   The Alchemical Landscape, CRASSH, Cambridge University, UK
2016   Microcinema Artist’s Moving Image, Heong Gallery, Cambridge, UK

 

Print Publications As Contributor (selected)

Books

• “The Earth Died Screaming”, in Sleep Has Her House, ed. Scott Barley (2019)
• “The Quest For The Cine-Rebis”, in Luminous Void: Experimental Film Society Documents, ed. Maximilian Le Cain and Rouzbeh Rashidi (Experimental Film Society, 2017)
• Microcinema New Artists Moving Image: Then and Now, ed. James Mackay, Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais (Cambridge Film Trust, 2017)
• “Interview with Bruce Bickford by Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais”, in Mr Bickford Discovers a New Land, ed. Tommi Brem (Topalian & Milani Verlag, 2017)

Periodicals

• “21 Reflections on Creativity and Cinema in the 21st Century”, The Art(s) Of Slow Cinema Journal, December 2018
• Film Panic Magazine, Issue 6, The Making of Phantom Islands, ed. Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais, July 2018
• Film Panic Magazine, Issue 5, The New Visionary Cinema, ed. Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais, January 2018
• “Towards A New Art Cinema”, in Hambre Dossier: Aberrant Intervals, September 2017
• Film Panic Magazine, Issue 4, ed. Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais, May 2017
• Film Panic Magazine, Issue 3, ed. Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais, December 2016
• Film Panic Magazine, Issue 2, The Quest For The Cine-Rebis, ed. Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais, April 2016
• Film Panic Magazine, Issue 1, ed. Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais, June 2013
• “An Introduction To Curt McDowell”, in One+One Filmmakers Journal, Issue 10, February 2013