24/04/13
Gideon Koppel: BORTH
Chapter Arts Centre
1 – 31 May 2013
Having originally studied mathematics, Gideon Koppel went on
to gain a postgraduate degree from the Slade School of Fine Art, and is today
something of a filmic polymath: a prolific film maker for cinema, television
and art gallery exhibition, an award-winning director of film commercials, a
Professor of Film at Aberystwyth University, and an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College,
University of Oxford. In 2008, he won The Guardian’s Best First Film
Award for his feature-length work, sleep
furiously, a portrait of Trefeurig, a small rural Welsh village which he moved
to with his parents, age 13. For Diffusion 2013, Koppel will be showing a single-screenfilm installation at Chapter, depicting “the
wild west Wales town of Borth.”
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