Cooper Battersby is a Canadian underground filmmaker who works almost exclusively in collaboration with his partner Emily Vey Duke. A romantic couple in addition to being artistic partners, they frequently place themselves in the center of their own videos and role-play against each other as different characters in intimate situations. The couple also work in printed matter, installation, curation and sound.
Learn more about this filmmaker at his official website.
Lesser Apes (2011)
Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure (2006)
The New Freedom Founders (2005)
Perfect Nature World(2002) (with Shary Boyle)
Curious About Existence (2003)
Bad Ideas for Paradise (2001)
The Fine Arts (2001)
Being F***ed Up (2000)
My Heart the Lumberjack (2000)
Rapt and Happy (1998)
The 2nd annual Winnipeg Underground Film Festival features a mini-retrospective of Mike Hoolboom; avant-garde cat films by Maya Deren, Jodie Mack and others; and lots more films.
The 21st annual Chicago Underground Film Festival will screen Usama Alshaibi’s latest documentary American Arab, plus Who Took Johnny; Shadow Zombie; short films by Jodie Mack, Kent Lambert and lots more.
The 51st annual Ann Arbor Film Festival features films by Kevin Jerome Everson, Lynne Sachs, Kent Lambert, Jodie Mack, Jack Smith and tons more.
The 49th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival has films by Vanessa Renwick, Marie Losier, Sam Green, Jodie Mack, Stan Brakhage and more.
The 49th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival will feature special programs by Emily vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Sam Green and Telcosystems.
The 22nd annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival will screen films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Kenneth Anger and more.
Oct. 8: At Light Industry, curator Jeremy Rossen will screen a selection of short films by Peggy Ahwesh, Deborah Stratman, Andrew Lampert and more.
The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival is screening films by Clint Enns, Georg Koszulinski, Martha Colburn, Robert Todd, Vanessa Renwick and more.
Other Cinema’s Noel Lawrence travels up north to present four works by obscure and mostly forgotten underground auteur J.X. Williams. I’ve seen Psych-Burn.
The 10th Antimatter Underground Film Festival is screening films by Jeff Krulik, Julia Ostertag, Mike Rollo, Vanessa Renwick, Tony Gault, Peggy Ahwesh and more.