Clio Barnard

The Arbor is Clio Barnard’s debut feature and one of four projects awarded an Artangel/ Jerwood Commission.  Barnard is an artist filmmaker whose work has shown in cinemas, international film festivals and galleries including Tate Modern, Tate Britain and MoMA, New York.  Her work has been screened on Channel 4 and had several international broadcasts.

Clio Barnard’s work is concerned with the relationship between fictional film language and documentary.  She has often dislocated sound and image by constructing fictional images around verbatim audio.  In The Arbor actors lip-synch to the voices of real people, questioning documentary’s aspiration to collapse the distance between reality and representation.  Her films include: Plotlands (Whitstable Biennale), Road Race (Film London), Random Acts of Intimacy (BFI/Channel 4) and Headcase (Arts Council England / Channel 4).  Barnard is also one of the winners of the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists.