Cooper Battersby
Directing
Biography
Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke have been working collaboratively since June 1994. Their work has been broadcast and exhibited around the world. Duke and Battersby are currently teaching at Syracuse University in Central New York. In 2010 they were shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award. Their work is distributed by Video Data Bank in Chicago, Argos in Brussels, V-Tape in Toronto and Video Out in Vancouver. In 2012, a book about their work, titled The Beauty is Relentless, was published by Coach House Press. In the fall of 2015, Duke’s book The Illuminations, a collaboration with Shary Boyle, was published by Oakville Galleries.
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On the crew 15
Dear Lorde
2015
Lesser Apes
2011
A Spot for Frog
2022
Onikuma
2016
Bad Ideas for Paradise
2001
Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure
2006
You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born
2019
Here Is Everything
2013
You Are an Amazement
2019
The Fine Arts
2002
The Infernal Grove
2021
Beauty Plus Pity
2009
Curious About Existence
2003
Being F***ed Up
2001
Three Things My Mother Never Told Me
2000