autoportrait — Mhairi-Clare Fitzpatrick

autoportrait

autoportrait:
(dir. Luke Willis Thompson)

35mm, Kodak Eastman Double-X BW, silent 8 minutes, 50 seconds. Arriflex 435

Awards:

2018 - Turner Prize Nominee (Forthcoming)
2018 - Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize Winner

autoportrait is a silent 35mm film of Diamond Reynolds. In July 2016, Reynolds used Facebook Live to broadcast the moments immediately after the fatal shooting of her partner Philando Castile by a police officer during a traffic-stop in Minnesota, United States. Reynolds’ video circulated widely online and amassed over six million views.

autoportrait was conceived as a ‘sister-image’ to Reynolds video broadcast which would break with the well-known image of Reynolds, caught in a moment of violence and distributed within a constant flow of news. Despite the abundance of visual information, the officer who killed Castile was acquitted of all charges. autoportrait continues to reopen a question of the agency of Reynolds’ recording within, outside of, and beyond the conditions of predetermined racial power structures.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Mhairi-Clare Fitzpatrick

AC / LIGHTING TECHNICIAN
Miranda Langevin

PROJECT LIAISON
Sara Cluggish

Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Filmed in Minneapolis, 2017. Produced in partnership with Create. With the support of Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.

Exhibitions:

2018 - Turner Prize (2018), Tate Britain, London
2018 - We don’t need another hero, 10th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
2018 - Luke Willis Thompson, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
2018 - RAY 2018 Fotografieprojekte Rhein-Main, the MMK Museum of Modern Art (Frankfurt)
2018 - Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018, the Photographers Gallery, London (Winner)
2018 - 2017 - Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon
2017 - autoportrait, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
2017 - autoportrait, Chisenhale Gallery, London