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His work, usually made on 16mm film, explores landscapes, human presence and absence and the passage of time. Collins\u2019 films have been shown widely at festivals across the world, including at Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Brighton.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENick Collins has quietly built a body of work by slow and patient steps that tested the scope and focus of his art. In some respects this echoes the character of the films themselves, which are on the cusp between personal lyric, with its implication of subjectivity, and direct observation, with its camera-eye objectivism. They enact a kind of absorption in seeing, but always in relation to particular sites and events, such as water, sky, gardens, natural landscape and the traces of human habitation. They rarely show people, but they are not impersonal. The persons implicated in the films, however, are those not depicted in it. The filmmaker is one such, apart from rare traces of his occasionally glimpsed shadow. The viewer is another, more radically absent since not present at the original filming. Together, the maker and viewer complete the projected space of the image when ultimately the film is shown, and becomes \u0027present to us\u0027. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENick Collins studied History at Cambridge (1972-5), and then at the Slade joined a remarkable diploma course in Film Studies, led by James Leahy. Founded by painter and former Grierson filmmaker William Coldstream, and by cineaste Thorold Dickinson, its students included Lutz Becker, Annette Kuhn, Deke Dusinberre and Simon Field, who became leading exponents of independent and avant-garde film in the 1970s. Already a committed photographer, Collins discovered at the Slade the proverbial \u2018Bolex in the cupboard\u2019 that has kick-started the filmmaking careers of many artists before and since. Soon, at the LFMC, he found like-minded fellow artists \u2013 including Nicky Hamlyn, David Finch and Nick Gordon-Smith - and an experimentalist film culture. The results of these experiences are, I think, embedded in his films. First of all, via the study of history, an eye for traces of the past (ruins, relics, monuments) in the contemporary landscape; and secondly, a profound knowledge of film and its own histories that he has subtly absorbed into his own way of seeing. Behind the presumption of an \u2018innocent eye\u2019 in his personal and often hand-held camerawork, for example, is an informed dialogue with such diverse predecessors as Brakhage, Larcher and Gidal \u2013 and also with the lyric mode in European art cinema and the British documentary movement.\u003C\/em\u003E - A.L. 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