Bar Laika and Projections at the 57th New York Film Festival present: an evening with Beatrice Gibson

Eileen Myles is a poet whose recent book For Now from Yale Press is a talk/essay about writing. In 2018 Eileen showed their photos at Bridget Donahue, New York, and in 1991–92 they conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President of the United States.

Beatrice Gibson's films are known for their experimental and emotive nature. Resolutely feminist in form and content they draw on cult figures from experimental literature and poetry, from Kathy Acker to Gertrude Stein. Collapsing fiction and documentary, they range from experimental autobiography to nocturnal thriller and cast friends and influences as their characters and co-creators. Gibson is twice winner of The Tiger Award for Best Short Film Rotterdam International Film Festival, (2009 and 2013). She was the winner of the 17th Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel. She has shown her films at film festivals and in museum contexts extensively including at Cannes Film Festival (Quinzaine) New York Film Festival, TIFF Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Courtisane Film Festival, Punto De Vista, Open City Docs and many more. Her films have been the subject of dedicated screenings at Fondazione Prada, Centre Pompidou, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA London), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She has recently had solo exhibitions at Ordet, Milano (2023); Camden Arts Centre, London; Bergen Kunsthal, Bergen; Mercer Union, Toronto (2019) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018). Gibson is currently shooting her first feature film produced by BBC films, Somesuch and Norte. She is a founding member of the monthly cinema club The Machine that Kills Bad People at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, alongside Ben Rivers, Maria Palacios Cruz, and Erika Balsom. In 2021 she founded Nuova Orfeo, a collectively run roving initiative for experimental film and music in Palermo Sicily.