Cerith Wyn Evans

Cerith Wyn Evans

Directing
1958-01-01
Llanelli, South Wales, UK

Biography

Cerith Wyn Evans (born 1958) is a Welsh conceptual artist, sculptor and film-maker.

Known For & Full Filmography6 Titles

#1Caravaggio

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m as Altar Boy (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
DramaHistoryRomance

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

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#2Two Melons and a Stinking Fish

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10

Intimate portrait of artist Sarah Lucas, whose witty and provocative work explores questions of identity and sexuality. With contributions from Angus Fairhurst and Damien Hirst.

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#3The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and The Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott

Movie - 2012, 2h 15m as Read by

8.8 / 10
Documentary

Turner Prize-winner Luke Fowler's film focuses on the life and work of the socialist historian EP Thompson and his involvement with the Workers Education Association. Presented in a documentary style format, combining archive and contemporary footage, the film questions our notions about how history is constructed.

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#4Phoelix

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10

An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality. Although this raises certain much-discussed questions about the nature of representation, and about the construction of narrative and daydreams in films, 'Phoelix' tends to treat these as just pretty and pertinent issues, opting instead for a mannered concentration on detail.

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#5L'ange frénétique

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as The Angel

8.8 / 10

An epicene angel flutters its wings and smokes a cigarette in this ejaculatory study of frustration, torment, stupidity and insolence. With Cerith Wyn Evans as the angel and music by Michael Nyman. Made at the Royal College of Art.

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#6Hail the New Puritan

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
MusicTV MovieDrama

A fictionalized portrait of the British dancer and choreographer Michael Clark, depicting a day in his life as he and his company prepare for a performance.

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