In 2007, Gillian Wearing placed an advert – in newspapers, online, in job centers, and elsewhere. It read: “Would you like to be in a film? You can play yourself or a fictional character. Call Gillian.” Of the hundreds of people who replied, seven – chosen through an extended process of auditions, interviews, and workshops – ended up appearing in Self Made. Of those seven, five in particular use the acting technique known as Method to delve into their memories, impulses, anxieties, fears, fantasies, and inner resources to create a series of individual performance vignettes, their personal ‘end scenes’, that reveal with particular intensity and clarity who they really are deep down – or who, in another version of their lives, they might easily have been.

Tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, say they have it. But the mainstream medical commu...

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Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...

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Made entirely of Scottish film archive, a journey into our collective past, the film explores univer...

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Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight...

Shot with stunning elegance and clarity, NAKED SPACES explores the rhythm and ritual of life in the ...

An undercover investigation of Martin Creek Kennel is carried out by the animal rights group Last Ch...

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An immersion in spirituality and everyday life of the Mbya-Guarani from the Koenju village in Southe...
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