The BFI Gallery was the

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's contemporary art gallery dedicated to artists' moving image housed within

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, the BFI's flagship venue in London, previously known as the National Film Theatre. The space was funded by the BFI with

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support and opened on 14 March 2007, to coincide with the reopening of the site. Its programme of new commissions, events and associated artists' film screenings was curated by Elisabetta Fabrizi, BFI Head of Exhibitions. The programme included exhibitions by

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, John Akomfrah, Apichatpong Weerasethakul,

Pierre Bismuth Pierre Bismuth (6 June 1963) is a French artist and filmmaker based in Brussels. His practice can be placed in the tradition of conceptual art and Appropriation (art), appropriation art. His work uses a variety of media and materials, including pa ...

, Jane & Louise Wilson,

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, Patrick Keiller, Phil Collins, Matt Collishaw, Yvonne Rainer, Julian Rosensfeld,

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, Deimantas Narkevicious, Mark Lewis. Film programmes linked to the gallery exhibitions included a retrospective of the films of Sergei Paradjanov and of

.Fabrizi, Elisabetta (Ed.), 'The BFI Gallery Book', BFI, 2011 As stated in the BFI Annual Review 2010-11: The Gallery was closed as part of the BFI's review of all its activities following the Government's decision to cut grant-in aid by 15% over four years. The space vacated by the Gallery was redeveloped to house the BFI Reuben Library which opened in 2012. A commemorative book, 'The BFI Gallery Book', was published in January 2011.

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