Cooper Battersby Trailers
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Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke have been working collaboratively since June 1994. Their work has been broadcast and exhibited around the world. Duke and Battersby are currently teaching at Syracuse University in Central New York. In 2010 they were shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award. Their work is distributed by Video Data Bank in Chicago, Argos in Brussels, V-Tape in Toronto and Video Out in Vancouver. In 2012, a book about their work, titled The Beauty is Relentless, was published by Coach House Press. In the fall of 2015, Duke’s book The Illuminations, a collaboration with Shary Boyle, was published by Oakville Galleries.
Most Popular Cooper Battersby Trailers
Total trailers found: 15
01 June 2022
Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch.
04 February 2013
“Here is Everything appears as a message from The Future, as narrated by a cat and a rabbit. The two spiritual guides have decided to address humans via a contemporary art video because they understand this to be our highest form of communication.
27 January 2019
Semi-autobiographical, experimental narrative film tells the story of a woman growing up battling mental and emotional disability, but with a powerful drive for greatness.
01 January 2009
Presented in seven parts, Beauty Plus Pity considers the potential for goodness amidst the troubled relations between God, humanity, animals, parents and children.
22 April 2015
Fourteen year old bone collector Maxine Rose is looking for validation from her heroes. These include primatologist Jane Goodall, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and New Zealand teen pop star Lorde.
01 May 2000
What you see, isn’t always what you get in this Barbie and Ken Doll stop motion celebration of sex and surprise.
22 January 2019
A darkly comic film that follows a woman through a life characterized by damage, loss, humour and joy.
01 January 2003
Episodic in nature, Curious About Existence reacts ultimately against an uninspired but prevailing acceptance of moral terms.
01 January 2021
The Infernal Grove is an unsystematic structural analysis of drug use, addiction and recovery (not necessarily in that order).
01 January 2011
Lesser Apes tells the story of a love affair between a primatologist, Farrah and a female bonobo ape, Meema.
01 January 2001
Funny, touching and ambitious in scope, Bad Ideas continues to deal with many of the themes addressed in Duke and Battersby’s earlier works: addiction, spirituality, identity, relationship dynamics and the ongoing quest for joy.
24 November 2016
Onikuma is Japanese yokai, a demon bear known for chasing horses. Surrounded by a foreign landscape, two women will understand that demons can come in different forms.
01 January 2001
An episodic videotape combining animation and live action sequences to create a portrait of the artist's lives as they struggle with addiction, gender identity and alienation.
10 December 2002
In The Fine Arts, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby mock their own lack of inspiration: a woman confesses that she’s speaking French in the nude because she has no good ideas but admits that her solution is unoriginal.
01 January 2006
Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure is a fourteen-minute experimental video that unfolds through a series of short episodes.
