Artist Filmmaker and VR Designer
Helen Nias is a UK based artist filmmaker and Virtual Reality designer, turned mum. Before having children, she spent her spare time making short experimental films and VR experiences to try and understand more about the world and minds we inhabit. Now there is only time for work and parenting.
In her past life...
Virtual Reality
Helen studied Virtual Reality Design after moving to Sydney in 2016.
Infinity Box (prototype and concept)
You'll question your own agency and free will when you step into this room-scale VR puzzle game for Vive.
Short film
Helen experiments with a range of techniques and media in her short films, including photogram animation, digital and analogue video, and analogue film (super 8, 16mm).
Screenings & Exhibitions
Helen Nias' short films have screened at film festivals, galleries and events in the UK and internationally.
In 2013 Helen was one of three filmmakers selected to create a short 'videoletter' for the Festival delle Lettere in Milan, Italy. The videoletters were inspired by letters written to American politician and gay activist Harvey Milk .
In January 2016 Helen had her first solo exhibition, SHOOT, REWIND, SPLICE, REMEMBER , at the Camera Club's Gallery 1885WHAT AM I? .
View screenings
2019
2018
2017
2016
Schaelpic Photokunstbar , Cologne: Obsolete & Discontinued Shorts in the South at Stanley's Film Club : I only like it if it's expensive, darling Gallery 1885 at the Camera Club - summer members' exhibition : Where I End Up Revela-T , Barcelona: Obsolete & Discontinued Artist talk for SHOOT, REWIND, SPLICE, REMEMBER at the Camera Club SHOOT, REWIND, SPLICE, REMEMBER - solo exhibition at Gallery 1885 : Prints and short films from 2006 - 2016London Short Film Festival : I only like it if it's expensive, darling
2015
2014
2013
Paradise Found , Hastings: Where I End Up BRING YOUR OWN BEAMER at Moving Image Art Fair , London: Picnic on the Moon Curiousciousness
Cardboard Cinema Club, Camden : Picnic on the Moon Kino London #55 : VIDEOLETTER TO HARVEY MILK Festival delle Lettere , Milan, Italy: VIDEOLETTER TO HARVEY MILK London Analogue Festival , Deptford: A Version of Us Slack Shorts at Lightbulb Festival of the Arts , Colchester: Picnic on the Moon
Whirlygig Cinema's 3rd Birthday Party , Hackney: SPIN: "Memory" Spiral Cardboard Cinema Club, Camden : Curiousciousness BRING YOUR OWN BEAMER at Oxford House, Bethnal Green: Picnic on the Moon Curiousciousness
A night for the senses: Gorilla Perfume pop-up closing party, Shoreditch: Inescapable Journey Kino #50, open mic film night, London: Detachments of Reality
Slack Shorts, Colchester: Picnic on the Moon
Whirlygig Cinema Au Naturel at Festival of Art & Music rEvolution, London: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
Kino London #48: Taking Me Into the Future
The School of Noseology, Gorilla Perfume Pop Up Shop, London: Inescapable Journey
New Shorts #16 Music and Video, London Short Film Festival: Inescapable Journey
2012
Pop Up Circus, Contemporary Arts Night, London: Where I End Up
Kino #45, open mic film night, London: Curiousciousness
Kino #44, open mic film night, London: Picnic on the Moon
straight 8 at Born Shorts Film Festival, Denmark: Curiousciousness
Whirlygig Cinema Au Naturel at In The Woods, Kent: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
straight 8 at In The Woods, Kent: Curiousciousness
Whirlygig Cinema Spotlights #3, filmmaker showcase, London: Walking Through a Dream Where I End Up A Version of Us Inescapable Journey Picnic on the Moon Curiousciousness
straight 8 at Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, London: Curiousciousness
Kino #41, open mic film night, London: Where I End Up
straight 8 at Cannes Lions, France: Curiousciousness
straight 8 at Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK: Curiousciousness
Analogue Recurring, Lo & Behold Gallery, London: A Version of Us
Making Tracks at the Student Film Festival London: Inescapable Journey
Making Tracks at the London Short Film Festival: Inescapable Journey
straight 8 squared at the London Short Film Festival: Picnic on the Moon
2011
2010
2009
Contact
Get in touch via contact(at)helennias(dot)co(dot)uk or @helennias on social.
