SELECTED WORK
Jacqueline Passmore believes film is not just a medium, but a transformative tool for human connection. A champion of experiential learning and inclusive filmmaking, she is dedicated to demystifying cinematic techniques and advancing innovative practices in the moving image arts. Her hands-on approach has been central to her work from the outset.
A lecturer and advisor for PhD, MA, and BA programmes, she also leads transformative projects for major film and arts organisations.
With specialised training in working with vulnerable adults, she was commissioned by the NHS to design an innovative three-year filmmaking pilot programme for Acute Psychiatric in-patients, now recognised as a case study for excellence in interventional Occupational Therapies in psychiatric care.
Her work in socially engaged practice has earned international recognition, including a commission from the British Film Institute (BFI) to design their original youth filmmaking technical curriculum, and an invite to speak on gendered gaze and cinematic grammar on behalf of Tate Modern in Genoa, Italy.
Research Interests:
Film Practice as Research, immersive and embodied cinema, cinematic grammar, non-Western narrative modalities, sensory processing, abstraction as visual language, Indigenous storytelling and temporalities, neurodivergent knowledge transfer, non-linear narratives, collective sensory experiences, non-verbal communication, music subcultures, Sámi and Arctic Indigenous cosmologies, and transformative film forms.
Bicycle Zoetropes
Jacqueline Passmore working with Tate Collective
Tate Modern, London, UK
Commissioned by Tate Modern for the Tate Collective Undercurrent programme
Interactive 4 channel live video installation, bicycles, zoetropes
Bicycle Zoetropes offers the public an immersive opportunity to engage with the art of analogue moving image technology through interactive play. This encounter unveils captivating cinematic principles, including the phenomenon of persistence of vision, the mechanics of animation, and the evolution of cinematic devices.
Photos courtesy Joshua Bradwell / Tate Modern
Projection Mash Up
Jacqueline Passmore and Jai Tyler
The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
Co-commissioned by Art on the Underground and The Photographers Gallery
Analogue and digital projection lab
A celebration of projection’s limitless creative potential, this experience invites young people to “break” the screen’s cinematic wall and become active explorers, using interchangeable analogue and digital projection tools. It encourages hands-on participation, fostering a space for sensory play, chromatic submersion and immersive storytelling.
Photos courtesy The Photographers Gallery