Collection / Secrets and Lies by David Blandy

UK, 2002, 3 minutes
Colour, Sound, Video

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Through the appropriation of the soundtrack to Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies, I try to question the possibility of genuine emotion: what is the difference between a performance artist and an actor, when is art autobiography and when is it an act of self-mythologisation?

Themes: Performance, Found footage