Ray & Liz

On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humour, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of experience of growing up in a Black Country council flat.

Duration: 107
Production year: 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Subtitles: Subtitles: Portuguese

Richard Billingham

In 1997, Richard Billingham was the first recipient of the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize and the following year BBC2 broadcast his film Fishtank, produced by Artangel and filmmaker Adam Curtis. He exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2001 and was nominated for the Turner Prize, also 2001. He has made work about his immediate family, about animals in zoos around the world and about the British landscape. Recently he has written and directed his first feature film for cinema called “Ray & Liz”, shot on location in the Midlands where he grew up. His work is held in many collections including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, V & A and Tate Galleries, London.

Original title: Ray & Liz

Richard Billingham

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