BRUCE CHARLESWORTH
FILM AND VIDEO
ALL THIS IS YOURS
All This Is Yours is a feature-length film-in-progress. The narrative arc of the film spans a work day in a government agency in a fictitious police state, circa 1968.
THE CIRCLE LINE
The Circle Line is a rearrangement of a continuous video sequence shot by the artist from a train window. There are four parts to this remix of reality.
THE HAPPINESS EFFECT
A politician visits a grade school classroom and gives a lesson in spin-control using a parable about a shunned puppy.
AIRLOCK
A bored worker feeds a creature living in an inflated swimming pool in a quarantined room.
PRIVATE ENEMY – PUBLIC EYE
In this hallucinatory feature-length film, a terrorist cell fronted by a has-been TV star unravels in an American suburb.
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MIRANDA
A murder investigation in which a suspect spins an alibi about being attacked by an aquatic monster.
ROBERT AND ROGER
Robert and Roger is the story of identical twins, raised apart in different countries and cultures. As adults, they are tracked down, captured, tested and observed – each unaware of the other's existence.
WRONG ADVENTURES
Wrong Adventures is the saga of a man who recounts to his psychoanalyst stories of his troubled relationships with various people, any of whom could be imaginary. After shooting a stranger hiding in his mother's bedroom closet, he is committed to an institution for the criminally insane.
PROJECTILE
A detective follows another detective to a party in a survivalist's home where a flying object leaves a gaping hole in the ceiling and a mess on the floor.
SURVEILLANCE
Two hired spies hold a close watch on a man staying in a cabin across a lake. When not looking through binoculars, they nap, call for take-out and fill out job applications.
