Clio Barnard

Clio Barnard

História

From Wikipedia, the free enclyopedia. Clio Barnard is a British director of documentary and feature films. She won widespread critical acclaim and multiple awards for her debut, The Arbor, an experimental documentary about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. In 2013 she was hailed as a significant new voice in British cinema for her film The Selfish Giant, which premiered in the Director's Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival.

Perfil

Clio Barnard

Filmes

Ali & Ava
Writer
Sparks fly after Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia, the child of Ali’s tenants whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth and kindness while Ava finds Ali’s complexity and humour irresistible. As the pair begin to form a deep connection they have to find a way to keep their newfound passion from being overshadowed by the stresses and struggles of their separate lives and histories.​
Ali & Ava
Director
Sparks fly after Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia, the child of Ali’s tenants whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth and kindness while Ava finds Ali’s complexity and humour irresistible. As the pair begin to form a deep connection they have to find a way to keep their newfound passion from being overshadowed by the stresses and struggles of their separate lives and histories.​
O Retorno
Writer
Devido a morte de seu pai, Alice (Ruth Wilson) retorna após 15 anos ao vilarejo onde cresceu, buscando reinvindicar a divisão da fazenda, que ela acredita ser a legítima dona. A disputa e o reencontro com o irmão revelam memórias traumáticas que estavam escondidas há anos e agora ameaçam o seu futuro.
O Retorno
Director
Devido a morte de seu pai, Alice (Ruth Wilson) retorna após 15 anos ao vilarejo onde cresceu, buscando reinvindicar a divisão da fazenda, que ela acredita ser a legítima dona. A disputa e o reencontro com o irmão revelam memórias traumáticas que estavam escondidas há anos e agora ameaçam o seu futuro.
The Selfish Giant
Writer
Uma fábula sinistra sobre a entrada na adolescência, conta a história de Arbor, um menino de 13 anos marginalizado e fora da escola. Ele e Swifty, o seu melhor amigo, conhecem Kitten, um velho apanhador de lixo. Usando uma charrete e um cavalo, eles saem pela cidade apanhando metal para ajudar o velho. Enquanto Swifty se dá melhor com o cavalo, Arbor interessa-se mais em fazer amizade com Kitten e ganhar algum dinheiro. Mas aos poucos Arbor começa a sentir-se ser deixado de lado, o que aumenta a sua ganância e faz crescer a tensão entre os três personagens.
The Selfish Giant
Director
Uma fábula sinistra sobre a entrada na adolescência, conta a história de Arbor, um menino de 13 anos marginalizado e fora da escola. Ele e Swifty, o seu melhor amigo, conhecem Kitten, um velho apanhador de lixo. Usando uma charrete e um cavalo, eles saem pela cidade apanhando metal para ajudar o velho. Enquanto Swifty se dá melhor com o cavalo, Arbor interessa-se mais em fazer amizade com Kitten e ganhar algum dinheiro. Mas aos poucos Arbor começa a sentir-se ser deixado de lado, o que aumenta a sua ganância e faz crescer a tensão entre os três personagens.
The Arbor
Director
Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. Andrea Dunbar wrote honestly and unflinchingly about her upbringing on the notorious Buttershaw Estate in Bradford and was described as ‘a genius straight from the slums.’ When she died tragically at the age of 29 in 1990, Lorraine was just ten years old. The Arbor revisits the Buttershaw Estate where Dunbar grew up, thirty years on from her original play, telling the powerful true story of the playwright and her daughter Lorraine. Also aged 29, Lorraine had become ostracised from her mother’s family and was in prison undergoing rehab. Re-introduced to her mother’s plays and letters, the film follows Lorraine’s personal journey as she reflects on her own life and begins to understand the struggles her mother faced.
Dark Glass
Director
A psychological micro-drama that moves from the sanctuary of a domestic garden to the half-remembered shadows of a house, Clio Barnard’s Dark Glass peers back into a semi-veiled interior world of fraught, ambivalent memories. Shot on a mobile phone camera to accentuate a feeling of intimacy and immediacy, the flickering nature of the footage also emphasises the film’s uncanny, otherworldly quality.
Road Race
Director
A film/video installation centered on a 'buggy race', an illegal pony and trap race organised by gypsies on a motorway. The film plays with documentary and cinematic forms to address notions of artificiality and representations of the real.
Random Acts of Intimacy
Director
Random Acts of Intimacy is a film about brief moments of contact and sexual intimacy. It addresses notions of erotic memory, sexual fantasy, sexual desire and romantic love. It explores the possibility that sex with strangers might be the closest we get to realising current notions of romantic love - intense, passionate, impulsive.
Headcase
Director
This is a home-movie horror film. Its heroine, Stretch, adopts a severed head as her companion and hijacks her own story to investigate it for herself and for her audience.
Hermaphrodite Bikini
Director
Director Clio Barnard, using Harry and Paintbox techniques, intercut with a Hi-8 video diary, presents a non-narrative collage addressing sexual difference and artifice, both imagined and real.