Cooper Battersby
Directing
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.
Known for
Three Things My Mother Never Told Me
May 1, 2000
Here Is Everything
February 4, 2013
Dear Lorde
April 22, 2015
Lesser Apes
January 1, 2011
The Infernal Grove
January 1, 2021
Bad Ideas for Paradise
January 1, 2001
You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born
January 22, 2019
Curious About Existence
January 1, 2003
Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure
January 1, 2006
You Are an Amazement
January 27, 2019
Beauty Plus Pity
January 1, 2009
Being F***ed Up
January 1, 2001
Behind the camera13
- 2021The Infernal Grove Director
- 2019You Are an Amazement Director
- 2019You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born Director
- 2015Dear Lorde Screenplay, Director
- 2013Here Is Everything Director
- 2011Lesser Apes Director
- 2009Beauty Plus Pity Director
- 2006Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure Director
- 2003Curious About Existence Director
- 2002The Fine Arts