Apertures, 1977, 8mins, 16mm, B/W, silent.
Light Movements, 1977, 11mins, 16mm, colour, silent.
Pear Tree, 1977, 14mins, Super8, colour, silent.
Dawn and Dusk, 1977, 8mins, 16mm, colour, silent.
From Four Seasons, 1977, 11mins, 16mm, colour, 4 screen, silent.
Time Flow, 1977, 8mins, 2 screen, colour, silent.
Beach Fragments, 1978, 6mins, Super8, colour, silent.
Observational Series, 1978, 18min, Super8, colour, silent.
Pebbles, 1979, 18mins, Super8, 2 screen, colour, silent.
Spider, 1979, 11mins, 16mm, colour, silent.
Bridge Farm, 1979, 7mins, 16mm, 2 screen, colour, silent.
Bridge, 1980, 10mins, 16mm, silent.
Reflections on my Shadow, 1980, 30mins, Super8, colour, silent.
NEXT DOOR, 1981, 83mins. 16mm, colour, sound in collaboration with Jean Matthee and Alan Stocker
DOUBLE DOORS, 1981, 9mins, Super 8, 2 screen, colour, silent, in collaboration with Jean Matthee
Film installations by Roger Polley and John Woodman shown over a seventeen year period (1983-2000) in numerous galleries and cinema venues throughout the UK and Europe. Also contributed to the Arts Council’s Filmmakers on Tour Scheme.
Greenhouse, 1999, Roger Polley and John Woodman, 10’, sound, colour, video (VHS) and digital video.
NOVEMBER MORNING, 2010, 12’, Digital video, sound
After the Storm, 2010, 7’58, Digital Video, sound
Pass, 2011, 4’, Digital Video, sound (Observational Series 2)
Greetings from Collioure, 2011, 13’41, Digital Video, sound
Magnolia Tree and Pink, 2011, 10’31, Digital Video, sound
It Came to Pass, 2011, 2’58, Digital Video, sound. (Observational Series 2)
Sunspot, 2011, 10’44, Digital Video, sound
Blue Boat, 2011, 5’50, Digital Video, sound (Observational Series 2)
Sarcophagus, 2011, 3’06, Digital Video, sound (Observational Series 2)
Wood, 2011, 4’ 25, Digital Video, sound (Observational Series 2)
Coniston- October 2011, 5’03, Digital Video, sound (Observational Series 2)
Light of the Moon, 2011, Digital Video, sound
Ruskin’s Pond, 2012, 9’42, Digital Video, sound (extract from larger work premiered Brantwood, 2012)
Ruskin’s Ponds, 2012, 216’ 22 Digital video sections, sound, 2 screen installation
BECK, 2012, 45’17, Digital Video, sound
Fields in Winter, 2012, 2’31’ Digital video, sound, (Observational Series 2)
Morning Rain, 2012, 3’16, Digital video, sound, (Observational Series 2)
After Vermeer, 2012, 5’37, Digital video, Sound
Sunday Morning, 2012, 3’59, Digital video, sound, (Observational Series 2)
Mountain Cloud, 2012, 6’23, Digital video, sound
Homage to the Sun, 2013, 13’49, Digital video, sound
Observational Series 2, 2015, 98 mins, Digital video, sound/silent
Pastoral, 2015, 39 mins, Digital video, sound
The Road to Priory Farm (After Cezanne), 2015, 14 mins, Digital video, silent
The Road to Priory Farm (After Cezanne) 2, 2015, 16 mins, Digital video, silent
Mists and Fogs, 2015, 45mins, sound/silent
FIELDS IN MIST, 2015, 8’42, Digital Video, silent
READING LIGHT- Self Portrait, 2016, 98mins 50secs, Digital video
SEQUENCES (Lament for the lost), 2016, 5mins, Digital Video, silent
THE SEPARATION, 2016, 6 mins, Digital Video, silent
STRETCH OF BEACH, 2016, 3’19, Digital video, sound
FIRST LIGHT, 2018, 20’ 40 Digital video, sound
ROCKPOOL, 2018, 7’28, Digital video, silent
VESUVIUS, 2018, 3’ 23, Digital video, silent
THE CAFE (After Renoir), 2018, 4’51, Digital video, sound
THE VOYAGE, 2018, 3’50, Digital video, silent
CLOUD STUDY, 2018, 2’21, digital video, silent
CORNFIELD, 2019 (revised), 24’21, digital video, silent
CORNFIELD (Twin Screen version), 13’, digital video, silent
APPEARANCE, 2019, 8’07, Digital Video, sound
SILENT LIGHT, 2019, 5’32, Digital video, silent
SHOAL OF SMALL FISH, 2019, 4’37, Digital video, silent
DOING TIME, 2020, 20’39 Digital video, sound
TIME AFTER TIME – AFTER VAN GOGH, 2020, 30’14, Digital video, sound
THE GOLDFINCH (After Fabritius), 2020, 4’31, Digital video, silent
REFLECTIONS ON MY SHADOW (Series 2), 2020, 6’38. Digital video, sound-ongoing
LIGHT PATH, 2020, 6’17, Digital video, silent
BEECH TREE- ILLUMINATION, 2010-2020, 87 mins, Digital video, sound (short version 26’34)
BEECH TREE- APPEARANCE, 2010-2020, 49 mins, Digital video, sound (short version 26’34)
BEECH TREE- 2 screen version, 2010-2020, 26’34, Digital video, silent
12, 2020, 2’50, Digital video, silent
24, 2020, 5’51, Digital video, sound
AFTER CANALETTO, 2020, 12’06, Digital video, silent
LIGHT AND DARK, 2021, 47’15, Digital video, Sound/silent,
AFTERIMAGES – Incidental Appropriations, 2021, 102 mins, Sound/silent
TWICE IN A BLUE MOON (After Nokomis), 2021, 29’30, Digital video, sound
Landscape films made between 1977-83 screened in various cinemas and galleries including the London Filmmakers Co-op and ICA.
Landscape Films – John Woodman 1977-82. DVD (LUX, 2013). Includes a booklet and an introductory essay by Malcolm Le Grice.
FILM INSTALLATIONS 1979-85, Roger Polley and John Woodman
Installation – ‘Landscape Films’ 2012, Oriel Henry Thomas Gallery, Carmarthen, UK
Installation- On Ruskin’s Pond, Brantwood, Cumbria, 2012
‘Scattered Showers- Forms of Weather’, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, March 2013;
BFI- National Film Theatre, Environmental Agency: A Landscape Film Programme, March 2013
Lucca International Film Festival, screening Ruskin’s Pond, Italy, September 2013
Screening/presentation of film work ‘Landscape Films’ at the Society for Education in Film and Television (SCREEN) conference; ‘Landscape and the Environment’, University of Glasgow, 2014
RUSKIN’S PONDS Installation exhibited at the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, 2015
Screening of PEAR TREE, FROM FOUR SEASONS and LIGHT MOVEMENTS at the Museum of Contemporary Art Bordeaux, September 2019.
Installation- the Biennale of Art and Film Festival, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan, 2019
BFI National Film Theatre, Experimenta Mixatape Programme, February 2020
Online streaming programme WATER curated by XVIIX, film: ROCKPOOL, May 2020
Screening of THE SEPARATION at the Religion and Art Symposium, Goldsmiths College, November 2020
‘On Trickling Away. Concepts of Time in Contemporary Art’, Installation/Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, f 2022
LIGHT CONE, Preview Show, Filmmaker Focus Programme: John Woodman, 2022
Nature and Culture Film Festival-poetic film, Copenhagen-forthcoming
Screenings of NOVEMBER MORNING 2011- 2022
Royal Academy of Arts (Summer show 2011)
28th Kasselar Documentary Film Festival (Experimental), Dokfest, Kassel, Germany, 2011
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Festival of Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany, 2012
Oriel Henry Thomas Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales, 2012
Frankfurter Kunstverein, installation/exhibition of video, Frankfurt, Germany, 2013
Kunstmuseum Reutlingen/konkret, Germany, 2022
Screenings of FIELDS IN MIST in 2016
Lisbon International Film Festival
AVIFF Cannes
Venice Film Week
Golden Reel International Underground Film Festival, Mongolia, Golden Reel Award
Swedish International Film Festival
Underground FilmFest, Munich
Buchheim Museum, Munich
Verona International Film Festival, Italy
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, (experimental documentary), CZ
Los Angeles Underground Film Forum, USA, special mention
Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, China
Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York
Screening of FIELDS IN MIST IN 2022
Golden Ger International Film Festival, Mongolian Institute
Screenings of THE SEPARATION in 2017
Monologue Film Festival, New York
Edinburgh International Film Festival
ONE SHOT International Film Festival, Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia
Bogota International Film Festival, Columbia
Switzerland International Film Festival- Experimental film
Slow Short Film Festival, UK, semi-finalist
Los Angeles Underground Film Festival, honorary mention
Screenings of THE SEPARATION in 2018/2019
LES INATTENDUS Film Festival, Lyon, France
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival (library) France
NOMADICA, Bologna, Italy, WEEKEND COI MORTI
Austrian International Film Festival, Vienna
Milan International Film Festival
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Screenings of THE SEPARATION in 2020
London International film Festival
Madrid Art Film Festival- Experimental,
Beijing Film Festival, China,
Religion and Art Symposium, Goldsmiths College, London
Screenings of THE SEPARATION in 2021
VASTLAB EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival, LA, USA
Screenings of FIRST LIGHT (TREES IN WINTER) in 2018-2022
Switzerland International Film Festival-Experimental Film
Bayaman International Film Festival, Puerto Rica
Findecoin Independent International Film Festival, Venezuela
Clermont- Ferrand Short Film Festival (library), France
AmbienteCinema, Turin, Italy
Biennale of Art and Film Festival 2019, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan
Budapest Capital Filmakers Festival, semi-finalist
ONE SHOT International Film Festival, Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia
Experimental Forum, Los Angeles, honorary mention
Online streaming programme GROUNDED curated by XVIIX
Tagore International Film Festival, India, Award winner
DRUK International Film Festival, Bhutan, Award winner
Screenings of APPEARANCE in 2019
Austrian International Film Festival, Vienna
64th Cork International Film Festival, Ireland – ‘Free Radicals’ Experimental Film Programme
CutLog -Artists Moving Image, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2019. Horsecross Arts Moving Image purchase Award.
Screenings of APPEARANCE in 2020
LES INATTENDUS Film Festival, Lyon, France
Screening/installation at Threshold Artspace, Horsecross Arts, Perth Concert Hall
Screening at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee
Switzerland International Film Festival- Experimental film
LA Underground Film Forum, special mention
CutLog- Artists Moving Image- online streaming programme
Rome Independent Film Awards
Screenings of BEECH TREE in 2022 (To date)
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Romania, Semi- finalist
ECRA Experimental Film Festival, Museum of Modern Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fescilmar International Film Festival, Spain
Festival International ‘La Cruz y el Mar’ (the cross and the sea), Venezuela
Experimental Films Online, Mexico -(BEECH TREE-ILLUMINATION)
Experimental Films Online, Mexico -(BEECH TREE-TWIN SCREEN)
Screenings of LIGHT AND DARK in 2021 (To date)
LA Underground Film Forum – Honourable Mention
IMMAGINA Experimental Film Festival, Naples, Italy
Screenings of THE GOLDFINCH (After Fabritius) in 2021 (To date)
ONE SHOT International Film Festival, Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia
Screenings of TWICE IN A BLUE MOON (After Nokomis) in 2022 (To date)
Tagore International Film Festival, India, Award winner
DRUK International Film Festival, Bhutan, Award winner
ONE SHOT International Film Festival, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia
Los Angeles Underground Film Forum- special mention
Nature and Culture Film Festival, poetic film, Copenhagen-forthcoming
Florence International Film Festival
Films in the BFI’S Film Archive Collection
Films in the LUX UK collection and distribution
Films in the LIGHT CONE collection and distribution, Paris
Films in the Collectif Jeune Cinema collection and distribution, Paris
Films in Canyon Cinema’s collection and distribution, San Francisco
Work in the V&A collection -Book Works
Work in the Arts Council Collection
Work in the Usher Gallery Collection
Work in the The New Art Gallery Collection, Walsall
Work in the Brantwood Collection
Film in the Horsecross Arts, Museum Collection of Contemporary Art and moving image
Work in the Dorset Museum Collection
Work in the Tullie House Fine Art Collection
Nevada Museum of Art, Archive and collection, USA (in progress)
