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.
Filmography
Beatrice Gibson at IFFR
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 night and drawing on the writings of cult literary figures Kathy Acker, Bernadette Mayer and Alice Notley. Beatrice Gibson's first feature collapses dream and reality, liquefying both.
90'
United Kingdom
CM 2024
A Necessary Music
20'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2009
The Future's Getting Old Like the Rest of Us
48'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2011
Agatha
14'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2012
The Tiger's Mind
20'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2013
The Tiger's Mind
20'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2014
F for Fibonacci
16'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2015
Crippled Symmetries
26'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2016
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.
20'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019