About A. L. Rees
Lived 1949 – 2014 (aged 65). A. L. Rees was a British writer, art historian and film theorist.
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, advised the Arts Council, the British Film Institute, the Tate Gallery and the Arts & Humanities Research Council.
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 formerly known as Maidstone College of Art and later the Royal College of Art in London.
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Who was A. L. Rees?
British writer and teacher about film (1949-2014)
When was A. L. Rees born?
A. L. Rees was born on 18 May 1949.
When did A. L. Rees die?
A. L. Rees died on 28 November 2014.
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A. L. Rees was a writer, art historian and film theorist.
What nationality was A. L. Rees?
A. L. Rees was British.
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