Mar 6, 2011 | No Comments | ByLouise Forbes
Self Made
is best known as a visual and conceptual artist – a key
Britart figure in the late 1980s, winner of the
Turner Prize in 1997, and elected a lifetime member of the
Royal Academy of Arts in 2007.
Self Made – her first feature film – is an intense, revealing and sometimes disturbing study of a group of participants who experiment with Method acting to access personal memories and experiences. 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.
BEV spoke to Gillian Wearing to find out more about how she made this extraordinary, disturbing, uncategorisable film… Read the full story
