AMIEL COURTIN-WILSON

Amiel Courtin-Wilson is an Australian film maker and artist whose work spans documentary, narrative feature film, moving image installation, photography and drawing. His work has been screened at Sundance, Cannes, won the Jury Prize at Venice, the Whitney Museum, and been the subject of multiple retrospectives. Between 2014 and 2016 he lived with his friend Cecil Taylor at Cecil’s apartment in Brooklyn, New York where he filmed The Silent Eye. He is currently completing a feature length portrait of the pianist titled An American Time Traveller: The Cecil Taylor Project. For the last five years he has also been collaborating with Charlemagne Palestine on a feature length portrait entitled Body Music, as well as making Traces, a thermal imaging work about the human body at the moment of death.