Emily Wardill (GB) | Ben

SYNOPSIS

Ben is a 10 minute 16mm film that forms the second part of Basking in what feels like an Ocean of Grace, I soon realise that I'm not looking at it, but rather that I AM it, recognising myself. Shot in colour on a set that was built in Black and White, Ben re- inhabits a famous case study involving hypnosis.
The authority of the case study, the rickety construction of the set, and the faltering voice over hold the film together in a precarious balance. With thanks to: Geraint Edwards, Heather Phillipson, Hamja Ahsan, Riffat Ahmed, Silje Lysle, Miria Swain, James Dove, Barbara Wardill, Geoff Wardill, Harry Wardill, Chris Ray, Valerie Barrow, Len Thornton, Keisha Sandy-Wellington and Gregory Cox. With financial support from Central Saint Martins College of Art.

ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY

Emily is a London-based artist, born in 1977, who gained her BA (Hons) Fine Art from Central St.
Martins College of Art & Design in 2000. Her recent exhibitions include Depiction Perversion Repulsion Obsession Subversion, Witte de With (2007); Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain, London (2006); High Risk Painting, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (2006); Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul, Fortescue Avenue, London (2006); Le Voyage Interieur, Espace Electra, Paris (2005); The Reader, Wife, Fortescue Avenue (2005); and Romantic Detachment, PS1, New York, Chapter Arts, Cardiff, and Q Arts, Derby (2004). Emily is part of a collective who organise the Itchy Park series of events at Limehouse Town Hall, and she is featured in The New Art publication by Rachmaninoff (2006).

FILMOGRAPHY

• Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreckuk, 2007, 10'00'', 16mm
• Ben, 2007, 10'00'', 16mm
• Basking in what feels like 'an ocean of grace'
  I soon realise that I'm not looking at it, but rather I am it,
  recognising myself, 2006, 8'00'', 16mm
• Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul, 2005, 9'00'', 16mm