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 The London Film-makers' Co-operative, or LFMC, was a British film-making workshop founded in 1966. It was largely responsible for the rise of British avant-garde cinema in the later 1960s. Work produced by members of the LFMC in the late 1960s and ...

, advised the

Arts Council An arts council is a government or private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts; mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing arts events. They often operate at arms-length from the government to prevent pol ...

, the

British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ...

, the

Tate Gallery Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the UK ...

and the

Arts & Humanities Research Council The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), formerly Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), is a British research council, established in 1998, supporting research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities. History The Arts an ...

. 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 The Kent Institute of Art & Design (KIAD, often ) was an art school based across three campuses in the county of Kent, in the United Kingdom. It was formed by the amalgamation of three independent colleges: Canterbury College of Art, Maidstone Co ...

formerly known as Maidstone College of Art and later the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public university, public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City, London, White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design uni ...

in London.

Bibliography

* '' A History of Experimental Film and Video'', BFI Publishing, 2011, 208 p. * ''A History of Experimental Film and Video'', BFI Publishing, 2019, 208 p.

References

1949 births 2014 deaths British writers {{UK-writer-stub