Charlotte Colbert

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Charlotte Colbert
NationalityFrench-British
Alma materLondon Film School
Known forMultimedia

Charlotte Colbert is a Franco-British film director and a moving image and multi-media artist.

Art[]

Photography[]

Colbert's work has been likened to that of Toomer, Breton and Dalí[1] and described as an “exploration into the human mind”.[2]

Her solo show A Day At Home was described by The Huffington Post as "a surreal meditation on domesticity and self-destruction".[3]

Colbert has been exhibited internationally, including Hong Kong Basel, Istanbul Art Fair, and Photo-London.

Multi-Media Sculpture[]

Colbert's multi-media sculptures are made of layered TV screens encased in rusty metal. The "Benefit Supervisor Sleeping" is a 170 kg video installation, 21st-century reinterpretation of Lucian Freud's famous painting of Sue Tilley. It is described as inverting the male gaze and "re-frame Sue Tilley, the subject of Freud's Benefit Supervisor series, from objectified to objectifier.[4]

Film[]

Colbert studied at the London Film School.[5] She is the co-author of feature film Leave to Remain about underage asylum seekers in Britain[6] with a score by Mercury Prize-winning band Alt-J.[7] It won awards at the BUFF Film Festival[8] and the Bergamo International Film Festival.[9]

In 2016, she wrote and directed "The Silent Man", described in ID as "the most surreal shorts you'll ever see"[10] with Simon Amstell and Sophie Kennedy-Clark. She made two animated shorts The Girl With Liquid Eyes[11] with Maryam d'Abo and "The Man With the Stolen Heart" with Bill Nighy.

She has been announced as producer on Dali Land, a biopic on artist Salvador Dalí with Ben Kingsley and Lesley Manville as the leads.[12]

Publishing[]

Colbert was one of the publishers of The Artists Colouring Book of ABCs done in support of the Kids Company,[13] featuring works by Grayson Perry, Alex Katz, and Tracey Emin.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Charlotte Colbert's surreal housewife shots | Photography | Agenda".
  2. ^ Alexander, Ella. "Charlotte Colbert: A Day At Home". www.vogue.co.uk.
  3. ^ "Surreal Black-And-White Photos Of A Housewife's Worst Nightmare (NSFW)". Huffington Post. 1 December 2013 – via Huff Post.
  4. ^ "The Artist Liberating Lucian Freud's Most Famous Muse". 2018-02-05.
  5. ^ "Graduate Achievements - London Film School". lfs.org.uk.
  6. ^ Film, British Council. "British Council Film: Leave to Remain". film.britishcouncil.org.
  7. ^ "Leave to Remain: Teenage asylum seekers star alongside Toby Jones in". 20 February 2013.
  8. ^ "Leave to Remain - BUFF Malmö". 5 February 2014.
  9. ^ "PREMI -Bergamo Film Meeting". www.bergamofilmmeeting.it.
  10. ^ "surreal short film 'the silent man' will leave you disturbed". 23 May 2016.
  11. ^ "The Girl with Liquid Eyes" – via www.imdb.com.
  12. ^ "Ben Kingsley To Play Salvador Dali In Mary Harron Movie 'Dali Land' With Lesley Manville, Frank Dillane & Tim Roth". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  13. ^ "Easy as ABC: famous artists collaborate on children's colouring book". 2013-11-13.
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