(These are transcribed notes from the lecture, my handwriting in my notebook was so bad there's almost no point in scaning them!)
Lecture 7 - Week 7 - Clio Barnard
Read film studies at Kent University.
Went to art school - experimental visual arts. Shows in galleries, festivals, and her short films.
Dark Glass was shot on a mobile phone, 8 mins long.
Road Race was a gallery installation, shown on 2 screens.
The Arbor is a docu-drama which uses actual interview voiceovers but performances were by actors. (watched trailer for it in the lecture). (Watched the first sequence in lecture also).
Really dark, suspenseful, cinematic, inspired by Andrea Dunbar's writing (the mother in the film). Inspired by verbatim interviews used in a play Clio had watched; wanted to apply this technique to film.
Ethical problems of documentary > fiction = because you have to personally expose people/ deal with existing personalities. Documentaries can be cathartic for their subjects; leave with a sense of hope.
Casting: used a casting director who would suggest individuals to Clio. Auditioned everyone in person.
The Selfish Giant (watched trailer for this in the lecture). (I had already watched the film at home).
Clio didn't have much involvement with the trailer's production. It was based very much around music for timing. Distributors manipulate them to appeal to potential viewers = not necessarily true representation.
