BRUCE CHARLESWORTH
FILM AND VIDEO
All This Is Yours is a feature-length film. Its story arc spans a work day in a government agency in a fictitious police state, circa 1968.
The Circle Line is a rearrangement of a video sequence shot by the artist from a train window. There are four parts to this remix of reality.
A politician visits a grade school classroom and gives a lesson in spin-control using a parable about a shunned puppy.
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A bored worker feeds a creature living in an inflated pool in a quarantined room.
Fronted by the former star of a TV police drama, a terrorist cell unravels in an American suburb. This hallucinatory feature-length film is about navigating public and private life, fact and fiction.
A murder investigation in which a suspect spins an alibi about being attacked by an aquatic monster.

A 'grand opera' TV crime show in which an undercover police commando/test pilot tracks down a charming, murderous gangster.
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.
In Wrong Adventures, a man tells 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.
Johnson is followed to a birthday party in a survivalist's bunker where, during a game of ping-pong, a flying object leaves a gaping hole in the ceiling and a mess on the floor.
Lost Dance Steps follows the obsessive activities of an amateur Houdini, whose escapes include hiding in boxes and climbing out gas station restroom windows.
Two hired spooks 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.

After undergoing interrogations from a sentient tape recorder, a detained man begins to lose his sense of purpose.