Nude Portrait Yields Performance
In 2007, actor Samantha Morton (pictured), perhaps best known in the U.S. for “Minority Report,” came to Fiona Banner’s studio to pose for a nude portrait; but instead of making a picture, Banner wrote a description of what she saw. Soon afterwards, having never read the text before, Morton performed it in front of a large audience at the Whitechapel gallery in London. At the time Banner and Morton decided not to film the performance, but a few months after the event a filmmaker, David Reeve, got in touch to say he had captured it on the fly. This is the film that resulted, which has never been shown before, and which, just in case you’re at work, has strong language.
