Charlotte Colbert

Charlotte Colbert is an award-winning filmmaker and multi-media artist. Her work has been shown at
galleries, art fairs and institutions internationally, including the V&A, Montpellier Contemporain, Frieze & Art Basel. Charlotte Colbert’s surreal and iconic work sits in the same psychic vein as
Toomer, Dalí, and Breton,” Phaidon. Her critically acclaimed BIFA-nominated directorial debut
feature film, "She Will", produced by Dario Argento and starring Alice Krige, Kota Eberhardt, Malcolm
McDowell, and Rupert Everett, premiered at the London Film Festival and won the Golden Leopard
for Best First Feature at the Locarno Film Festival. It was the New York Times’ Critic’s Choice and
was described in Variety as “A Superb, Sly Horror-Drama Debut Delivering Otherworldly Feminist
Vengeance.”

Colbert has also written and directed award-winning short films, including "The Silent Man" with
Simon Amstell and Sophie Kennedy Clarke, "The Girl with Liquid Eyes", and short films with Bill
Nighy, Maryam d’Abo, Ben Miller, and a surreal cameo by Cillian Murphy. Her latest installation
"Dreamland Sirens" was curated by Simon de Pury and UTA and shown during Frieze London.
Alongside monumental sculptures, it included a sound collaboration with celebrated composer Isobel
Waller-Bridge. “Colbert conjures fantastical worlds by blending the boundaries between reality and
imagination,” writes Rachel Hajek of the Design Museum. Her work has strong philosophical
undertones and often questions narrative, time, identity, dreams and the unconscious. Narrative,
psychoanalysis, and socio-political constructions of gender and identity are at the earth of Colbert’s
practice. Spanning film, photography, sculpture, and installations, her work plays with archetypal
imagery—dreams and fairy tales—as a way to connect to universal truths.