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Name Douglas Gordon
Born 20 September 1966. Glasgow
Background A Glaswegian thoroughbred who splits his time between his hometown and New York. Gordon is a man of many gUises. Whether posmg as Myra Hindley, Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe or Marcel Duchamp in drag. this 1996 Turner Prize-Winner enjoys toying With identity and thrives upon self-mythology. Emerging from a circle of art school friends that include Nathan Coley. Ross Sinclair and Christine Borland. Gordon had his first solo show break in 1981. Now premiering Zidane: A 2 Ist Century Portrait at ElFF on the back of Cannes success earlier this year. Gordon has also worked intensively with Video art and photography. garnering enough success to make him Scotland's biggest international art star. Threaded through his oeuvre is a continumg obsession With film histOry and dupliCiIOus literary characters such as Jekyll and Hyde, the Black Spot in Treasure ls/and. and James Hogg's confessional but othervvise Justified Sinner. One film work. 24 Hour Psycho sees Gordon slow down Hitchcock‘s 109-minute film to make a single Viewing last an entire day.
What’s he up to now? After his current ElFF jaunt with co-director Phillipe Parieno. Gordon prepares for a double-whammy of art exhibitions in Edinburgh. His first major solo show in Scotland will split between the behemoth institution Royal Scottish Academy. and lnverleith House in Royal Botanic Gardens both taking place Nov 2006—Jan 2007.
What he says about watching movies ‘Most of the movies that I‘ve watched. I've watched in bed rather than in the cinema. It was not exactly the social context but the physical context of watching that knitted together all of my expenencesI
Interesting Fact Gordon once took scopolamine (a truth drug) to enable himself to be photographed for his 1994 work Self Pomait (Kissing with Scopo/amine). (lsla Leaver-Yap)
I Zidane: A 2 ist Century Portrait. Cinewor/d. 623 8030, 79 Aug, 6pm 8- 22 Aug. 8pm, £7.95 (£5.20).
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LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (Jonathan DaytonNalerie Faris. US. 2006) 100min 000
NEXT DOOR (Pal Sletaune, Norway. 2005) 75min
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yarn does exactly what it says on the tin. It follows two navy boys on what could be their last detail. The difference is these boys (Jack Nicholson and Otis Young) are not going to war, they are moving a young offender (Randy Quaid) across country to prison. Needles to say they need to give the boy a potty mouthed, big drinking send off. This ambivalent, gritty and incredibly powerful film ranks with Ashby’s best and that’s saying something. Nicholson, Young and Quaid are tremendous. A must see. Showing as part of the 705 American cinema season.
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IN BETWEEN DAYS (80 Yong Kim. US. 2006) 82mm 0..
THE OH IN OHIO (Billy Kent, US. 2006) 88min 0..
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