Michael Mazière is an artist and filmmaker living in London. He has lectured and exhibited his film/video works worldwide, commissioned and curated artists' work and published critical writings for major arts publications. Recently, he was artist in residence at BANFF, Canada and Research Fellow at Central St Martins School of Art and Design. He is currently Gallery Curator and Researcher at the University of Westminster, London. His films and videos have been shown internationally at major festivals, film venues, galleries and on broadcast television. He has shown work at the Tate, London and MOMA, New York, and his films are the collections of the Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art of Japan and the National Collection of Australia. He has completed an anthology of writing on artists film and video for Wallflower Press, London. His last solo show 'Delirium' toured the UK through the Arts Council National Touring Programme. He has received funding awards in 2005 from Arts Council England and Film London for his latest work ‘Assassin’. The piece creatively explores the seductive nature of violence, and crime as manifested in cinema. This work is a development of his interest in cinema, digital technology, poetry and psychoanalysis.