Judith Noble

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Judith Noble is Professor Emerita of Film and the Occult at Arts University Plymouth (UK). She began her career as an artist filmmaker, then worked for over twenty years as a production executive in the film industry, working with directors including Peter Greenaway and Amma Asante. Her research encompasses artists’ moving image, Surrealism, the occult and work by women artists, and she has published on filmmakers Maya Deren, Derek Jarman and Kenneth Anger. Her most recent publications include: The Dance of Moon and Sun – Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism (editor, 2023, Fulgur) and ‘A Convocation of Theurgists – Kenneth Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and West Coast Occulture’ in Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer LA – Sexual Science and the Imagi-nation (eds Alexis Bard Johnson and Kelly Filreis, One Archive/USC, 2024). She is a board member of RENSEP (the Research Network for Esoteric Practices), co- founder of the Black Mirror Research network and the artists’ collective the Inner Space Exploration Unit.  She continues to practice as an artist, making artist’s books and text+image works; her most recent film is Fire Spells (2022), a collaboration with director Tom Chick.