Stuart Croft

Stuart Croft (1970, Leeds, England) is an artist / filmmaker. He attended Chelsea College of Art in London, graduating with an MA in 1998. His work has since been shown widely in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.

Croft writes and directs dialogue-based, character-driven films that are shown in art galleries, as installations or single-screen projections. The work uses the illusion in film narrative to investigate the fleetingness and impossibility to grasp time and reality as well as to ask what possibilities there are for co-opting the languages of cinema and fiction into the contemporary art space.

Croft's work has been reviewed by Time Out London, The Guardian, Artforum, i-D, Art Monthly, Metro, Kultureflash, Contemporary and many others. He is currently a tutor at the Royal College of Art in London where he programmes the RCA's new Moving Image Studio.

Filmography

• Comma 39 (2011)
• Palace (2011)
• The Stag Without a Heart (2010)
• The Death Waltz (2008)
• Drive In (2007)
• Century City (2006)
• Several Small Fires (2005)
• Df Dmb Blnd (2004)
• Hit (2003)
• Rococo 55 (2002)
• The Loss Leader (2000/2005)
• Loveless (2000)
• The Everlasting (1999)
• Dead Happy (1998)
• Point X (1998)

External links

• Website
• Art Monthly review - Drive In (2008)
• Kultureflash review - Drive In (2008)
• The Guardian review - Century City (2006)
• Time Out review - Century City (2006)
• Guardian Guide - Century City (2006)
• Kultureflash review - Century City (2006)
• ARTFORUM review - Hit (2003)
• Time Out review - Hit (2003)