Abbe Fletcher is a filmmaker and practice-based researcher. As senior lecturer at Kingston University, she co-founded the MA in film making in 2006. She is the postgraduate research coordinator for the Department of Film and Photography at Kingston and supervises practice based PhDs in film making. She is a founding member of w.in.c (women’s independent collective) films. Her research interests include experimental and documentary film practice, Film Collectives and collective creative practices, the intersection of filmmaking and family life and the films of Rose Lowder, Dziga Vertov, Kurt Kren and Stan Brakhage. She is particularly interested in investigating the processes of filmmaking, printmaking, drawing and textiles and the importance of play in creativity.
Former member of the Creative Process Research Unit and member of the former Visible Institute at Kingston School of Art.
Recent outputs include:
Contributed to Responding to Women in Creativity by Catherine Grant, 2022
British Council Funded project About Making: Exploring Building Craft and its Social Processes, 2021-22
Railwaywomen, 2018, short film
Film maker in the Family research project, launched with a curated screening at the BFI 24th September 2016, which culminated in the chapter Film maker in the Family: The impact of family life on creativity for Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (Valiz, 2020)
Pulpo y pandereta, 2014, short w.in.c film;
Role Reversal Rehearsal, performance and film collaboration with artist Jessica Akerman published as 7 positions in 2 hours, in MaMSIE’s Studies in the Maternal (http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/
My Mild-Mannered Mother-in-Law from Mildmay, film with Akerman 2013; The Road to Gibara in Cuba, w.in.c 2010.
She welcomes research supervision enquires in the areas of: filmmaking at the margins, women filmmakers, filmmaking and family life, community and collective filmmaking, experimental and underground filmmaking, screenwriting and documentary.