Steve Hawley

Steve Hawley is an artist who has been working with film and video since 1981, and his work has been shown at video festivals and broadcast worldwide since then. His original preoccupation was with language and image, and in 1995 his experimental documentary made with Tony Steyger on artificial languages was broadcast on Channel 4 TV. Love Under Mercury, his first film for the cinema,  won a prize at the Ann Arbor film festival, and Amen ICA Cinema 2002, a palindromic video, won the prize for most original video at the Vancouver Videopoem festival.

He has explored issues around the impact of new technologies on narrative. Yarn 2011, uses the DVD medium to create a never ending story, and Actor 2013 makes film without a camera by putting the performer in a motion capture suit.

Manchester Time Machine 2012, made with the North West Film Archive was the first ever iPhone app to combine archive film footage and GPS and is part of a project looking at the nature of the city, including Not to Scale 2009 (filmed in a series of model towns) and  Ghost 1992 about Hong Kong which was screened at Cannes Director's Fortnight  His work with the Archive has also included War Memorial 2017 which was nominated for best short documentary at the Sheffield DocFest, and Mancunia with poet Michael Symmons Roberts. His book on rare WW2 filmed messages, Men War and Film was published in 2022 by Intellect.

He lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and has filmed and is currently editing an experimental city symphony on his adopted home. as well as a feature film, Art School, on the need for tough love in creative teaching.

He is Emeritus Professor at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University.