Douglas Gordon by Douglas Gordon review – a brave glimpse inside the mind of the Scottish artist
Director Finlay Pretsell captures Gordon setting things alight with a miniature blowtorch, smearing himself with silver paint and throwing shapes with a bullwhipHere is a brave and not entirely orthodox artist documentary; not so much a dates-and-shows-and-talking-heads profile, but resembling something of an act of art in itself. The subject is Douglas Gordon, the Scottish film and video-maker, possibly best known for 24 Hour Psycho, his radically slowed-down presentation of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterwork, and Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, the…
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