Screening
Two Films by Beatrice Gibson
6/17/2021, 8:15PM
Deux Soeurs Qui Ne Sont Pas Soeurs (Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters), 2019.
United Kingdom | 20 minutes | trailer
Two sisters (who are not sister’s), two pregnancies, a two-seater car, a beauty queen, a poodle and the election of a second fascist – this time in Brazil. An abstract crime thriller without a crime, Two sisters… unfolds like a dream. Based on an original screenplay by Gertrude Stein.
I hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead, 2018.
United Kingdom | 20 minutes | trailer
By turns raucous and reserved, I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead ponders the future of a world in flux. Written as a love letter to Gibson’s daughter, the film features readings by radical poets CAConrad and Eileen Myles, excerpts from work by Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich, and music by Pauline Oliveiros.
This program was made possible through funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
About the Filmmaker
Beatrice Gibson is a French-British filmmaker based between London and Palermo. Drawing on and incorporating cult figures from experimental music and literature and poetry – such as Robert Ashley, Gertrude Stein, Kathy Acker and Alice Notley – Gibson’s films are citational and participatory. Populated by friends and influences from within her immediate community, they often cite and incorporate co-creative and collaborative processes and ideas.
Gibson is twice winner of The Tiger Award for Best Short Film, Rotterdam International Film Festival, in 2009 and 2013 respectively. In 2013 she was shortlisted for The Jarman Award for Artist’s film and the 2013–15 Max Mara Art Prize for Women. In 2015 she won the 17th Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel. Most recently she was the winner of the Images Festival Marian McMahon Akimbo Award for Autobiography 2019 and was shortlisted a second time for the 2019 Jarman Award for Artist’s film
Gibson has recently had recent solo exhibitions at Camden Arts Centre, London, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen Mercer Union, Toronto (2019) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, (2018 ). Her films have shown at film festivals around the word, including at New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Oberhausen Film Festival, Courtisane Film Festival, Punto De Vista International Documentary Film Festival and many more.
