Self Made
+ Q&A
UK / 2010 / 83 min
ICA Cinema 1, Fri 11 March 8.45pm
Turner Prizewinner Gillian Wearing's startlingly original feature debut about the performances hidden inside us
For her startlingly original feature debut, Turner Prizewinner Gillian Wearing advertised for members of the public to perform. Intense, revealing and sometimes disturbing, the disparate group experiments with Method acting to access personal memories and experiences, guided by leading practitioner Sam Rumbelow. With results ranging from episodes of violence to imagined love (via an excerpt from King Lear), the participants confront deep truths about themselves in an extraordinary work of modern art and cinema.
Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing is an English visual and conceptual artist, and was part of the Brit Art scene in the late 1980s. She won the Turner Prize in 1997, and in 2007 was elected a lifetime member of the Royal Academy of the Arts. Self Made is her first feature film.
Screening followed by a Q&A with Gillian Wearing, Sam Rumbelow and some of the film's participants.