Abina Manning has worked to support artists’ film and video for more than forty years, most recently as Executive Director of the Video Data Bank in Chicago (2006-2021). Previously she was based in London where she served as Director of Exhibition at LUX Centre, and as Director of the inaugural Pandæmonium Festival of Moving Images, a major European exhibition presented at the Institute for Contemporary Arts. In 2021 she relocated to Berlin, where she continues to write about and curate moving image art.