Clio Barnard
Festival of Ideas
Monday 6 May 2019 1 - 2pm
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
£15, £9
Media Partner
Join award-winning writer, director and video artist, Clio Barnard, in conversation with writer and broadcaster, Matthew Sweet, as she talks about her experimental style and the social and political inspiration behind her work.
One of the UK's most distinctive and challenging contemporary filmmakers, Clio Barnard, (The Arbor, The Selfish Giant and Dark River), has received widespread acclaim for her feature and documentary work, and has been exhibited in cinemas, film festivals and galleries around the world. In conversation with the writer and broadcaster, Matthew Sweet, Barnard discusses her unique style of filmmaking and why she keeps returning to Yorkshire for inspiration.
Clio Barnard grew up near Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. She went to art school in Newcastle and Dundee and her post graduate work featured artists Jane and Louise Wilson RA. She subsequently exhibited her avant-garde art films at the ICA, Tate Britain, Tate Modern and MOMA in New York. Her 2010 film, The Arbor received huge critical acclaim and won awards including The Guardian First Film Award and Best Screenplay at the London Evening Standard Film Awards. She was nominated for the BAFTA Outstanding Debut Award in February 2011. Her second feature, The Selfish Giant, a reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s short story was nominated for a BAFTA for Best British Film and for the Lux Prize in 2013. Her third feature, Dark River, starred Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley and Sean Bean. Barnard is one of the winners of the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists. She is a Reader in the Film Studies department at the University of Kent. Clio is currently writing an untitled feature script with development funding from BBC Films, and is hoping to go into production later in 2019.
This event will be followed by a Q&A.
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