Charlotte Colbert

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In this episode of the Seeing series, Carrie chats with  award-winning filmmaker and multi-media artist, Charlotte Colbert. Her work has strong philosophical undertones and often questions narrative, time, identity, dreams and the unconscious. The surreal and fantastical become a way to look at our world afresh and find the space to question and reimagine.

From Carrie: "Sometimes the hardest interviews to do are with artists who you really respect or whose work really, really resonates and this is the case with Charlotte Colbert. I'm worried that this interview isn't the best one I've ever done and here's why. I have got this major, major respect for this woman and her work breaks me. I have no other words for it. It's emotional, it's emotive. It's all about the feminine sublime. It's all about the feminine and sirens and women and I want it. So sitting with her was hard. Sitting with her was hard. I had to try and play it cool, not very good at that and tried not to completely geek out on all the feminist stuff because I don't want to alienate an audience that should know her work and appreciate it. This woman is light and love with so much urgency and pain and passion. She's just awesome.

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