Jake Chapman in Conversation
Followed by a screening of THE OFFENCE (15)
Thursday 20 May, doors 6.20, event 6.30
The Art Fund, in partnership with Picturehouse Cinemas, has invited a number of celebrated artists to select a film which has inspired them and their work, to attend a screening of their chosen film and to participate in a Q&A session.
First up is Jake Chapman ‘in conversation’ with Adrian Searle, discussing his film of choice: Sidney Lumet’s THE OFFENCE.
Born in Cheltenham in 1966, Jake Chapman graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1990 along with his younger brother Dinos. In 1991, the brothers received critical acclaim for their sculpture, Disasters of War, a reinterpretation of Goya's etchings. Part of the legendary YBA (Young British Artists) faction, the Chapmans’ work has been collected by Charles Saatchi among others, and in 2003 the artists were shortlisted for the Turner Prize.
Adrian Searle has been art critic for The Guardian since 1996.
Sidney Lumet is an American film director with over 50 films to his name, and four Academy Award nominations for Best Director: 12 ANGRY MEN (1957), DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975), NETWORK (1976) and THE VERDICT (1982).
THE OFFENCE (1972) stars a post-James Bond Sean Connery as a detective tormented by the crimes that have returned to haunt him.
