Stuart Croft

Stuart Croft (1970, Leeds, England) is an artist and filmmaker. He attended Chelsea College of Art in London, graduating with an MA in 1998. His work has since been shown widely in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.

Croft writes and directs dialogue-based, character-driven films that are shown in art galleries, as installations or single-screen projections. As such his work asks what the possibilities are for co-opting the languages of cinema and dominant narrative into the contemporary art space.

Croft's current films are produced to appear as though they are convincing 'slices' of movies. They often adopt mainstream cinematic or televisual genres to do this: the Hollywood thriller, film noir, the road movie, Hammer Horror, the Western, the film trailer and the TV commercial. In their script-writing, editing and in the gallery space, his works operate as recurrent loops, compounding his quotidian characters into endless repetition and lack of resolve.

Croft's work has been reviewed by "Time Out London", "The Guardian", "Artforum", "i-D", "Art Monthly", "Metro" , "Kultureflash", "Contemporary" and many others. Various institutions have held retrospective screenings of his work including FACT, Liverpool and the Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy. He is currently a Tutor and Teaching Fellow at the Royal College of Art in London.

Filmography

* How to Arrange a Funeral (in development)
* The Stag Without a Heart (in development, due 2009)
* [http://www.stuartcroft.com/death.shtml The Death Waltz (2008)]
* [http://www.stuartcroft.com/drive.shtml Drive In (2007)]
* [http://www.stuartcroft.com/century.shtml Century City (2006)]
* Several Small Fires (2005)
* Df Dmb Blnd (2004)
* [http://www.stuartcroft.com/hit.shtml Hit (2003)]
* [http://www.stuartcroft.com/rococo55.shtml Rococo 55 (2002)]
* [http://www.stuartcroft.com/lossleader.shtml The Loss Leader (2000/2005)]
* Loveless (2000)
* The Everlasting (1999)
* Dead Happy (1998)
* Point X (1998)

External links

* [http://www.stuartcroft.com Official website]
* [http://www.stuartcroft.com/img/press/SC_AM_JUL-08.jpgArt Monthly review - "Drive In" (2008)]
* [http://www.kultureflash.net/archive/252/default.htm#event5520 Kultureflash review - "Drive In" (2008)]
* [http://www.stuartcroft.com/img/press/SC_GUARDIAN_17-01-06.jpgThe Guardian review - "Century City" (2006)]
* [http://www.stuartcroft.com/img/press/SC_TO_25.01.06.jpgTime Out review - "Century City" (2006)]
* [http://www.stuartcroft.com/img/press/SC_Guide_07.01.06.jpgGuardian Guide - "Century City" (2006)]
* [http://www.kultureflash.net/archive/150/default.htm#event3325 Kultureflash review - "Century City" (2006)]
* [http://www.stuartcroft.com/img/press/SC_ARTFORUM_Apr-04.jpgARTFORUM review - "Hit" (2003)]
* [http://www.stuartcroft.com/img/press/SC_TIMEOUT_03-12-03.jpgTime Out review - "Hit" (2003)]
* [http://www.rca.ac.uk/pages/research/stuart_croft_and_the_3679.html Interview - "Stuart Croft and the Art of Cinema" (2006)]
* [http://www.fred-london.com/index.php?mode=artists&id=3 Stuart Croft at Fred London Ltd - gallery]
* [http://www.depictionfilms.co.uk Depiction Films - production]