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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.

Early life

She is one of the eight children of James Goldsmith the businessman and Referendum party founder, who died in 1997. Her mother is the French journalist Laure Boulay de la Meurthe, with whom Goldsmith openly had a long-term relationship while married to Annabel Goldsmith – making Colbert a half-sibling of Jemima Goldsmith.[1]

Art

Photography

Colbert's work has been likened to that of Toomer, Breton and Dalí[2] and described as an “exploration into the human mind”.[3]

Her solo show A Day At Home was described by The Huffington Post as "a surreal meditation on domesticity and self-destruction".[4]

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.[5]

Film

Colbert studied at the London Film School.[6] She is the co-author of feature film Leave to Remain about underage asylum seekers in Britain[7] with a score by Mercury Prize-winning band Alt-J.[8] It won awards at the BUFF Film Festival[9] and the Bergamo International Film Festival.[10]

In 2016, she wrote and directed "The Silent Man", described in ID as "the most surreal shorts you'll ever see"[11] with Simon Amstell and Sophie Kennedy-Clark. She made two animated shorts The Girl With Liquid Eyes[12] 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.[13]

Colbert directed and co-wrote She Will with Alice Krige, Kota Eberhart, Malcolm McDowell, Rupert Everett and an original score by Clint Mansell. The film won the golden leopard for the first film at the Locarno Film Festival. It has been described as “A Superb, Sly Horror-Drama Debut Delivering Otherworldly Feminist Vengeance”[14] by Jessica Kiang in Variety and Alfonso Cuarón has said that “it sits in the tradition of great psychological horror films [which] leaves one questioning long after [it] is finished”.[15]

Publishing

Colbert was one of the publishers of The Artists Colouring Book of ABCs done in support of the Kids Company,[16] featuring works by Grayson Perry, Alex Katz, and Tracey Emin.

See also

References

  1. ^ Clarke, Cath (7 July 2008). "'Sisters, you're flowing through me!' The director whose horror film channels centuries of female rage". The Guardian. London. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Charlotte Colbert's surreal housewife shots | Photography | Agenda".
  3. ^ Alexander, Ella. "Charlotte Colbert: A Day At Home". www.vogue.co.uk.
  4. ^ "Surreal Black-And-White Photos Of A Housewife's Worst Nightmare (NSFW)". Huffington Post. 1 December 2013.
  5. ^ "The Artist Liberating Lucian Freud's Most Famous Muse". 5 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Graduate Achievements - London Film School". lfs.org.uk.
  7. ^ "British Council Film: Leave to Remain". British Council Film.
  8. ^ "Leave to Remain: Teenage asylum seekers star alongside Toby Jones in". Independent.co.uk. 20 February 2013.
  9. ^ "Leave to Remain - BUFF Malmö". 5 February 2014.
  10. ^ "PREMI -Bergamo Film Meeting". www.bergamofilmmeeting.it.
  11. ^ "surreal short film 'the silent man' will leave you disturbed". 23 May 2016.
  12. ^ "The Girl with Liquid Eyes" – via www.imdb.com.
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ Kiang, Jessica (15 August 2021). "'She Will' Review: A Superb, Sly Horror-Drama Debut Delivering Otherworldly Feminist Vengeance". Variety. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  15. ^ Yossman, K. J. (3 August 2021). "'She Will': First Clip of Locarno Selection From Debut Director Charlotte Colbert (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  16. ^ "Easy as ABC: famous artists collaborate on children's colouring book". 13 November 2013.
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