A. L. Rees

Alan Leonard Rees (18 May 1949 – 28 November 2014) was a British writer and teacher about film, who advised the Arts Council, the British Film Institute, the Tate Gallery and the Arts & Humanities Research Council.[1]

He was the author of A History of Experimental Film and Video (2011), 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 formerly known as Maidstone College of Art and later the Royal College of Art in London.[2]

Bibliography
  • A History of Experimental Film and Video, BFI Publishing, 2011, 208 p. ISBN 978-1844574360
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References
  1. "AL Rees: Writer and teacher who made a formidable advocate for the study of the moving image as an artist's medium - People - News". Independent.co.uk. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  2. "AL Rees obituary". Guardian.co.uk. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2018.


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