Beatrice Gibson
Beatrice GIBSON lives and works between Palermo, Sicily, and London UK.
Gibson is twice winner of the Tiger Award for Best Short Film, International Film Festival Rotterdam, (2009/2013) winner of the 2015 Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel and the Images Festival Marian McMahon Akimbo Award for Autobiography, 2019. In 2013, she was nominated for the Max Mara Prize for Women artists and in 2013 and 2019 respectively for the Jarman Award for Artist’s film.
Gibson’s films have shown at film festivals around the world, including at New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Courtisane Film Festival, Punto De Vista International Documentary Film Festival and many more.
Her films have been the subject of numerous screenings at The Institute Of Contemporary Art, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Serpentine Gallery, The Pompidou Centre, SCHIRN Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, The Art Institute of Chicago and many more. She has recently had solo exhibitions at Camden Arts Centre, London, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Mercer Union, Toronto (2019), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, (2018). She has upcoming Shows at British Art Show 9, Ordet, Milan and Macro Roma.
Gibson’s latest film premiered at Directors Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2019.
Filmografie
(selection) If the Route (2007, instal), A Necessary Music (2008, short), The Future’s Getting Old Like the Rest of Us (2010, short), Agatha (2012, short), The Tiger’s Mind (2012, short), F for Fibonacci (2015, short), Crippled Symmetries (2016, short), I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead (2018, short), Deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs (2019), La Nuit (in development)
Beatrice Gibson at IFFR
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La nuit
After an abortion, a woman wanders the streets, embarking on a series of quiet encounters under a neon glow. Taking place over the course of a single
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A Necessary Music
Derived from texts by residents of Roosevelt Island, and Bioy Casares, A Necessary Music is a musically conceived science fiction film featuring Rober
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The Tiger’s Mind
‘The tiger fights the mind that loves the circle that traps the tiger.’ Cardew’s score informs this abstract, collaborative and prodigious crime thril
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I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead
In times of anxiety and despair, Gibson delivers a visual poem brimming with life and love, pondering the future of a world in flux.
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The Tiger’s Mind
‘The tiger fights the mind that loves the circle that traps the tiger.’ Cardew’s score informs this abstract, collaborative and prodigious crime thril
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Crippled Symmetries
The latest work by two-time Tiger Award for Short Film winner Beatrice Gibson shows that music and capitalist economy have unexpected similarities.
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F for Fibonacci
Are art and the economy configured by chance? Gibson’s sharply humorous film is a bricolage of rollercoaster rides, musical cues and oscillating graph
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Agatha
A psychosexual sci-fi about a planet without speech. Based on a dream had by the radical British composer Cornelius Cardew.
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The Future’s Getting Old Like the Rest of Us
A rewardably complex, part documentary, part fiction film which takes B.S. Johnson’s unorthodox novel House Mother Normal as its formal departure poin