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Self Made (2011)
Directed by Gillian Wearing
Overview
In 2007, Gillian Wearing placed an advert – in newspapers, online, in job centers, and elsewhere. It read: “Would you like to be in a film? You can play yourself or a fictional character. Call Gillian.” Of the hundreds of people who replied, seven – chosen through an extended process of auditions, interviews, and workshops – ended up appearing in Self Made. Of those seven, five in particular use the acting technique known as Method to delve into their memories, impulses, anxieties, fears, fantasies, and inner resources to create a series of individual performance vignettes, their personal ‘end scenes’, that reveal with particular intensity and clarity who they really are deep down – or who, in another version of their lives, they might easily have been.
Length 88 minutes
Actors
Sam Rumbelow | Asheq Akhtar | Lesley Robinson | Dave Austin | James Baron | Lian Stewart | Simon Manley | Jerome Prince | Tim Woodward | Arabella Arnott | Stephen Hawksby | Leonardo Russo | Helen Coverdale | Andrew Tennant | Angela Stephenson | Adam Bird | Martin Forsyth | David Harbison | Michael Laing | Mike Martin | Dave Simmons | Daniel Spiller | Dave Watson | Ali Pritchard | Jacob Anderton | Tor Clark | Luca Matteo Zizzari