Charlotte Colbert is a Franco-British film director and a moving image and multi-media artist.
Early life
Born on the 30th of May 1987, she is one of the eight children of James Goldsmith the businessman 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.
Art
Photography
Colbert's work has been likened to that of Toomer, Breton and Dalí and described as an “exploration into the human mind”.
Her solo show A Day At Home was described by
The Huffington Post
''HuffPost'' (formerly ''The Huffington Post'' until 2017 and sometimes abbreviated ''HuffPo'') is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions. The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content, and ...
as "a surreal meditation on domesticity and self-destruction".
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
Sue Tilley (born 1957), also known as Big Sue, is a British artist's model and writer. She modelled for painter Lucian Freud.
Born in south London, Tilley worked for performance artist and club promoter Leigh Bowery as a cashier at his "Taboo" n ...
. 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.
Film
Colbert studied at the
London Film School
London Film School (LFS) is a film school in London and is situated in a converted brewery in Covent Garden, London, neighbouring Soho, a hub of the UK film industry. It is the oldest film school in the UK. . She is the co-author of feature film ''Leave to Remain'' about underage asylum seekers in Britain with a score by Mercury Prize-winning band
Alt-J
Alt-J (stylised as alt-J, real name Δ) are an English indie rock band formed in 2007 in Leeds. Their lineup includes Joe Newman (guitar/lead vocals), Thom Sonny Green (drums), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards/vocals), and formerly Gwilym Sainsbur ...
. It won awards at the
BUFF Film Festival and the Bergamo International Film Festival.
In 2016, she wrote and directed ''The Silent Man'', described in
ID as "the most surreal shorts you'll ever see" with
Simon Amstell and Sophie Kennedy-Clark, Ben Miller and a cameo by Cillian Murphy. She made two animated shorts ''The Girl With Liquid Eyes'' with
Maryam d'Abo and ''The Man With the Stolen Heart'' with
Bill Nighy.
She is a producer on ''
Dali Land'' directed by
Mary Harron (
American Psycho
''American Psycho'' is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker. Alison Kelly of ''The Observer'' notes that while "some countr ...
), co-produced with Pressman Films. It is a biopic about artist
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarr ...
starring Sir
Ben Kingsley,
Ezra Miller,
Andreja Peijic,
Suki Waterhouse.
Colbert directed and co-wrote
She Will with
Alice Krige, Kota Eberhart,
Malcolm McDowell,
Rupert Everett produced by
Dario Argento
Dario Argento (; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film critic, critic. His influential work in the horror film, horror genre during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the subgenre known as ...
and Pressman Films with an original score by
Clint Mansell
Clinton Darryl Mansell (; born 7 January 1963) is an English musician, singer, and composer, born in Coventry. He served as the lead singer and multi-instrumentalist of alt-rock band Pop Will Eat Itself before embarking on a career as a film s ...
. The BIFA nominated film won the Golden Leopard for the first film at the
Locarno Film Festival
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. It has been described as “A Superb, Sly Horror-Drama Debut Delivering Otherworldly Feminist Vengeance” by Jessica Kiang in Variety and
Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco ( , ; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. He is known for directing films in a variety of genres including the family drama ''A Little Princess (1995 film), A Little Princess'' (1995), the romantic drama ''Gre ...
has said that “it sits in the tradition of great psychological horror films
hichleaves one questioning long after
tis finished”.
Colbert is the co-founder of Popcorn Group a production company known for the viral sensation short
Leading Lady Parts
''Leading Lady Parts'' is a 2018 short film directed by Jessica Swale. Inspired by the Time's Up movement, the film stars several A-list actresses auditioning for a leading lady role, offering a critique of the casting process. It premiered ...
(with
Emilia Clark,
Florence Pugh and
Gemma Chan
Gemma Chan (born 29 November 1982) is an English actress. Born and raised in London, Chan attended the Newstead Wood School for Girls and studied law at Worcester College, Oxford before choosing to pursue a career in acting instead, enrolling at t ...
), co-producing
Fleabag in the WestEnd and co-producing
Alice Lowe
Alice Eva Lowe (born 3 April 1977)England & Wales births 1837 – 2006 is an English actress, writer, and comedian. She is best known for her roles as Dr. Haynes in '' Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'' and Madeleine Wool/Liz Asher in ''Garth Mareng ...
's time travelling romcom TimeStalker with the BFI.
Colbert set up the Popcorn Writing Award in Edinburgh which is run with the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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and gives a prize to a writer at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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every year. Past committee members have included
Fatima Bhutto,
Aurora,
Jonny Woo
Jonny Woo is a British comedian, actor, and drag queen. He co-owns The Glory, an East London pub in which he regularly performs.
Woo spent time in New York City between 2000 and 2003, where he performed at a downtown club and was prominent on ...
,
Lena Headey,
Enda Walsh.
Colbert also set up the
NFTS x Popcorn Writing Award which allocates a prize to the most original script from
NFTS film school screenwriting graduates.
Publishing
Colbert was one of the publishers of The Artists Colouring Book of ABCs done in support of the Kids Company, featuring works by
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry (born 1960) is an English contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries, and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, and for dissecting British "pre ...
,
Alex Katz
Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints.
Early life and career
Alex Katz was born July 24, 1927, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, as the son of an émigré who ha ...
, and
Tracey Emin.
Philanthropy
Colbert is on the board of the
Isla Foundation
Isla or ISLA may refer to:
Organizations
* International Securities Lending Association, a trade association
* International School of Los Angeles
* International Bilingual School, later named International School of Los Angeles
People
* Isla (g ...
and the
Ecology Trust.
See
also
Also or ALSO may refer to:
*Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO), a program developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
*Alsó-Fehér County, a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary
* ALSO Gro ...
*
Nam June Paik
*
Jean Toomer
*
Renate Bertlmann
Renate Bertlmann (born 1943, Vienna, Austria) is a leading Austrian feminist avant-garde visual artist, who since the early 1970s has focused on issues surrounding themes of sexuality, love, gender and eroticism within a social context, with her ...
References
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1987
Living people
British filmmakers
British women artists
British multimedia artists
Alumni of the London Film School
1987 births