Rebecca Jane Arthur (Edinburgh, 1984) is an artist and filmmaker based in Brussels. Working predominantly with the moving image and text, she often departs from personal stories that highlight socio-political contexts and histories, and gives particular attention to class politics, education and women’s experiences.
She is co-founder of the artist-run production and distribution platform elephy; artistic doctoral researcher at KASK & Conservatorium/School of Art Gent, where she teaches in the visual arts department and lectures on feminist theory; and contributor to the online film criticism platform Sabzian.
Her work can be found in the collections of argos centre for audiovisual arts (Brussels, BE) and the Fassiaty Video Art Foundation (Paris, FR), and has been shown in arts institutions and film festivals alike, including the Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar (Brussels, BE), CINEMATEK (Brussels, BE), WIELS (Brussels, BE), CONTOUR Biennale 10 (Mechelen, BE), Harlan Levey Projects (Brussels, BE), Kunsthal Extra City (Antwerp, BE), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (Paris, FR), the Austrian Film Museum (Vienna, AT), Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, IT), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, NL), and many others.
1: Him Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer (2023) teaser Rebecca Jane Arthur
2: Liberty: an ephemeral statute (2020) teaser Rebecca Jane Arthur
3: Oh, Nellie! (2025-) still Rebecca Jane Arthur
4: Oh, Nellie! (2025-) still Rebecca Jane Arthur
