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| birth_place = [[Cheltenham]], [[England]]
| birth_place = [[Cheltenham]], England
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'''Duane Hopkins''' (born 22 July 1973) is an English [[film director]] and [[artist]], best known for directing the independent film [[Better Things (2008 film)|''Better Things'']] (2008).
'''Duane Hopkins''' (born 22 July 1973) is an English film director and artist, best known for directing the independent film [[Better Things (2008 film)|''Better Things'']] (2008).


== Career ==
== Career ==


Hopkins' first short film, ''Field'', made in 2001, premiered at [[Cannes Film Festival]] as part of [[International Critics' Week]]. A dark, unblinking tale of rural adolescence, ''Field'' went on to win a host of prizes at festivals internationally. Hopkins followed ''Field'' in 2003 with his second short film ''Love Me Or Leave Me Alone'', made as part of [[Film 4]] and [[UK Film Council]]’s [[Cinema Extreme]] scheme for new British filmmaking talent. ''Love Me Or Leave Me Alone'', ‘a study in the articulations and limitations of first love’, premiered at [[Edinburgh International Film Festival]] where it won Best British Short Film. Like ''Field'' it was highly successful; together the two films gathered over 30 international awards.<ref>http://www.casarotto.co.uk/system/media/client/cv/1821/Duane_Hopkins.pdf</ref>
Hopkins' first short film, ''Field'', made in 2001, premiered at [[Cannes Film Festival]] as part of [[International Critics' Week]]. A dark, unblinking tale of rural adolescence, ''Field'' went on to win a host of prizes at festivals internationally. Hopkins followed ''Field'' in 2003 with his second short film ''Love Me Or Leave Me Alone'', made as part of [[Film 4]] and [[UK Film Council]]'s [[Cinema Extreme]] scheme for new British filmmaking talent. ''Love Me Or Leave Me Alone'', 'a study in the articulations and limitations of first love', premiered at [[Edinburgh International Film Festival]] where it won Best British Short Film. Like ''Field'' it was highly successful; together the two films gathered over 30 international awards.<ref>http://www.casarotto.co.uk/system/media/client/cv/1821/Duane_Hopkins.pdf{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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Hopkins then wrote and directed his debut feature film ''[[Better Things (2008 film)|Better Things]]''. Shot on location in the West Midlands of [[England]], ''[[Better Things (2008 film)|Better Things]]'' premiered at [[International Critics' Week]] in [[Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]] 2008, where it was nominated for the Camera D’Or.<ref>http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/2008/programmeGoldenCamera.html</ref> A multi-narrative tale of love, yearning and loss amongst the young and old of a small town in rural England, ''[[Better Things (2008 film)|Better Things]]'' was widely praised by critics as a film that was both radical and nuanced. It was often noted for its use of cinematic technique and narrative approach to connect themes such as romantic need, the roots of drug addiction, and [[existentialism|existential]] notions of [[The Concept of Anxiety|anxiety]], purposefully against a contemporary, epic rural backdrop. ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' stated: "Duane Hopkins follows his prize-winning shorts with visually distinctive first feature ''[[Better Things (2008 film)|Better Things]]''. Beautifully shot with cast of eye-catching non-pros… gives a special twist to UK tradition of [[social realism]] by juxtaposing the natural and the constructed."<ref>http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117937185.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&query=better+things+duane+</ref> [[The Guardian]] wrote that ''[[Better Things (2008 film)|Better Things]]'' "has a bold and brilliant insight at its heart"<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/may/19/cannesfilmfestival.festivals1</ref> while [[The Independent]] argued that "Hopkins is a director with an introspective subtlety uncommon in UK filmmaking",<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-film-festival-in-review-830174.html</ref> and in choosing '''[[Better Things (2008 film)|Better Things]]'' as its Film of the Month, [[Sight and Sound]] wrote "Hopkins’ film depicts, or rather creates, a piece of British social landscape that we have never quite seen before".<ref>http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/4704</ref> [[Le Monde]] made ''[[Better Things (2008 film)|Better Things]]'' its film of the week, comparing Hopkins' work to "the abstract violence of [[Alan Clarke]], and the lyrical harshness of [[Bill Douglas]]...Hopkins clearly has a lot in common with such directors: he uses a harsh metaphysical darkness and an acute sense of formal composition.".<ref>http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117937185.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&query=better+things+duane+</ref>
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Hopkins then wrote and directed his debut feature film ''[[Better Things (2008 film)|Better Things]]''. Shot on location in the West Midlands of England, ''Better Things'' premiered at [[International Critics' Week]] in [[Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]] 2008, where it was nominated for the Camera D'Or.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/2008/programmeGoldenCamera.html |title=Festival de Cannes - from 16 to 27 may 2012 |accessdate=2010-09-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818153939/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/2008/programmeGoldenCamera.html |archivedate=18 August 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref> A [[multiperspectivity|multi-narrative]] tale of love, yearning and loss amongst the young and old of a small town in rural England, ''Better Things'' was widely praised by critics as a film that was both radical and nuanced. It was often noted for its use of cinematic technique and narrative approach to connect themes such as romantic need, the roots of drug addiction, and [[existentialism|existential]] notions of [[The Concept of Anxiety|anxiety]], purposefully against a contemporary, epic rural backdrop. ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' stated: "Duane Hopkins follows his prize-winning shorts with visually distinctive first feature ''Better Things''. Beautifully shot with cast of eye-catching non-pros… gives a special twist to UK tradition of [[social realism]] by juxtaposing the natural and the constructed."<ref>https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117937185.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&query=better+things+duane+ {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> [[The Guardian]] wrote that ''Better Things'' "has a bold and brilliant insight at its heart"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/19/cannesfilmfestival.festivals1|title = Peter Bradshaw on an Israeli docu-drama about the atrocities of war|website = [[TheGuardian.com]]|date = 19 May 2008}}</ref> while [[The Independent]] argued that "Hopkins is a director with an introspective subtlety uncommon in UK filmmaking",<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091208105536/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-film-festival-in-review-830174.html The Independent]</ref> and in choosing '''Better Things'' as its Film of the Month, [[Sight and Sound]] wrote "Hopkins' film depicts, or rather creates, a piece of British social landscape that we have never quite seen before".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/4704 |title=BFI &#124; Sight & Sound &#124; Film of the Month: Better Things (2007) |accessdate=2010-09-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815111846/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/4704/ |archivedate=15 August 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> [[Le Monde]] made ''Better Things'' its film of the week, comparing Hopkins' work to "the abstract violence of [[Alan Clarke]], and the lyrical harshness of [[Bill Douglas]]...Hopkins clearly has a lot in common with such directors: he uses a harsh metaphysical darkness and an acute sense of formal composition.".<ref>https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117937185.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&query=better+things+duane+ {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>
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Hopkins has been described as being at the centre of an emergent 'British New Wave' alongside directors like [[Steve McQueen (artist)|Steve McQueen]], with ''[[Better Things (2008 film)|Better Things]]'' distinguished "by its technical and stylistic approaches to typical problems of British realism".<ref>http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49461</ref> His film work has been noted for its precise compositions and technical rigour, and for its poetic cinematic rendering of realist subject matter, characters and environments.

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Hopkins has been described as being at the centre of an emergent 'British New Wave' alongside directors like [[Steve McQueen (director)|Steve McQueen]], with ''Better Things'' distinguished "by its technical and stylistic approaches to typical problems of British realism".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49461 |title=BFI &#124; Sight & Sound &#124; Cannes 2008: A royal rumpus |accessdate=2010-09-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122155030/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49461 |archivedate=22 January 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> His film work has been noted for its precise compositions and technical rigour, and for its poetic cinematic rendering of realist subject matter, characters and environments.
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Hopkins also works in the fields of photography and moving image art. His first solo gallery exhibition ''Sunday'', a collection of single and multi-channel moving image installations, opened at the [[Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art]] in March 2009.<ref>http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/past/ExhibitionDetail.php?exhibID=122</ref> ''Sunday'' deals with contemporary British youth and the relationships between identity, psychology and environment. The format of the individual pieces within the Sunday collection is that of multiple images knitted together to form multi-screen scenes, each working in different ways with atmosphere and narrative. The impression formed is suggestive of a [[Social realism|social-realist]] [[fairy tale]] – the subtle interaction of [[Realism (arts)|realist]], [[Surrealism|surreal]] and [[Romanticism|romantic]] tropes. With ''Sunday'' Hopkins was said to have "created an experience that is entirely separate from the conventions of sitting in a cinema. He generates a portrait of youth that has a matter of fact, harsh reality to it and a psychological intensity that is unnerving.<ref>http://www.balticmill.com/images/pdf/.../Duane%20Hopkins_Sunday38.pdf</ref>" ''Sunday'' was also exhibited at galleries in Liverpool<ref>http://www.openeye.org.uk/past.asp?id=13</ref> and Yokohama<ref>http://www.ifamy.jp/en/programs/single/220/</ref> in 2009.
Hopkins also works in the fields of photography and moving image art. His first solo gallery exhibition ''Sunday'', a collection of single and multi-channel moving image installations, opened at the [[Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art]] in March 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/past/ExhibitionDetail.php?exhibID%3D122 |title=DUANE HOPKINS - Exhibitions - BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art |accessdate=2010-09-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091207122645/http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/past/ExhibitionDetail.php?exhibID=122 |archivedate=7 December 2009 |df=dmy }}</ref> ''Sunday'' deals with contemporary British youth and the relationships between identity, psychology and environment. The format of the individual pieces within the Sunday collection is that of multiple images knitted together to form multi-screen scenes, each working in different ways with atmosphere and narrative. The impression formed is suggestive of a [[Social realism|social-realist]] [[fairy tale]] – the subtle interaction of [[Realism (arts)|realist]], [[Surrealism|surreal]] and [[Romanticism|romantic]] tropes. With ''Sunday'' Hopkins was said to have "created an experience that is entirely separate from the conventions of sitting in a cinema. He generates a portrait of youth that has a matter of fact, harsh reality to it and a psychological intensity that is unnerving.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.balticmill.com/images/pdf/.../Duane%20Hopkins_Sunday38.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-09-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309211158/http://www.balticmill.com/images/pdf/.../Duane%20Hopkins_Sunday38.pdf |archivedate=9 March 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref>" ''Sunday'' was also exhibited at galleries in Liverpool<ref>http://www.openeye.org.uk/past.asp?id=13{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and Yokohama<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ifamy.jp/en/programs/single/220/ |title=&#124; CREAM International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009 |accessdate=2010-09-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022181539/http://www.ifamy.jp/en/programs/single/220/ |archivedate=22 October 2009 |df=dmy }}</ref> in 2009.
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Hopkins produces the work of other filmmakers through Third, a company co-founded with producer Samm Haillay. With Third Hopkins has produced Daniel Elliott’s Venice-winning short film ''The Making of Parts'' and Berlinale-winning ''Jade''.<ref>http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/15185</ref> In 2010 he co-produced the feature film debut of the artist [[Gillian Wearing]], titled ''Self Made''.<ref>http://screenbase.screendaily.com/films/670</ref>
Hopkins produces the work of other filmmakers through Third, a company co-founded with producer Samm Haillay. With Third Hopkins has produced Daniel Elliott's Venice-winning short film ''The Making of Parts'' and Berlinale-winning ''Jade''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/15185 |title=UK Film Council - Jade wins Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Short Film; September wins BAFTA for Best Short Film |accessdate=2009-12-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523065554/http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/15185 |archivedate=23 May 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In 2010 he co-produced the feature film debut of the artist [[Gillian Wearing]], titled ''Self Made''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://screenbase.screendaily.com/films/670|title = Self Made &#124; Films &#124; ScreenBase}}</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
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* ''Love Me Or Leave Me Alone'' (2003)
* ''Love Me Or Leave Me Alone'' (2003)
* ''[[Better Things (2008 film)|Better Things]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Better Things (2008 film)|Better Things]]'' (2008)
* ''Bypass'' (2014)


==Moving Image Art==
==Moving Image Art==
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== References ==
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{reflist}}


== External links ==
== External links ==
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* [http://www.betterthingsthefilm.co.uk/ ''Better Things'' Official Site]
* [http://www.betterthingsthefilm.co.uk/ ''Better Things'' Official Site]
* [http://www.duanehopkins-sunday.com/ Duane Hopkins' Sunday Official Site]
* [http://www.duanehopkins-sunday.com/ Duane Hopkins' Sunday Official Site]
* {{IMDb name|1109502}}
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1109502/ Duane Hopkins at the Internet Movie Database]
* [http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=77525357501 Baltic Interview With Duane Hopkins about ''Sunday'']
* [http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=77525357501 Baltic Interview With Duane Hopkins about ''Sunday'']


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Duane Hopkins
Hopkins at the BFI London Film Festival in 2014
Born (1973-07-22) 22 July 1973 (age 50)
Cheltenham, England
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, artist
Years active2001 – present

Duane Hopkins (born 22 July 1973) is an English film director and artist, best known for directing the independent film Better Things (2008).

Career[edit]

Hopkins' first short film, Field, made in 2001, premiered at Cannes Film Festival as part of International Critics' Week. A dark, unblinking tale of rural adolescence, Field went on to win a host of prizes at festivals internationally. Hopkins followed Field in 2003 with his second short film Love Me Or Leave Me Alone, made as part of Film 4 and UK Film Council's Cinema Extreme scheme for new British filmmaking talent. Love Me Or Leave Me Alone, 'a study in the articulations and limitations of first love', premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival where it won Best British Short Film. Like Field it was highly successful; together the two films gathered over 30 international awards.[1]

Hopkins then wrote and directed his debut feature film Better Things. Shot on location in the West Midlands of England, Better Things premiered at International Critics' Week in Cannes 2008, where it was nominated for the Camera D'Or.[2] A multi-narrative tale of love, yearning and loss amongst the young and old of a small town in rural England, Better Things was widely praised by critics as a film that was both radical and nuanced. It was often noted for its use of cinematic technique and narrative approach to connect themes such as romantic need, the roots of drug addiction, and existential notions of anxiety, purposefully against a contemporary, epic rural backdrop. Variety stated: "Duane Hopkins follows his prize-winning shorts with visually distinctive first feature Better Things. Beautifully shot with cast of eye-catching non-pros… gives a special twist to UK tradition of social realism by juxtaposing the natural and the constructed."[3] The Guardian wrote that Better Things "has a bold and brilliant insight at its heart"[4] while The Independent argued that "Hopkins is a director with an introspective subtlety uncommon in UK filmmaking",[5] and in choosing 'Better Things as its Film of the Month, Sight and Sound wrote "Hopkins' film depicts, or rather creates, a piece of British social landscape that we have never quite seen before".[6] Le Monde made Better Things its film of the week, comparing Hopkins' work to "the abstract violence of Alan Clarke, and the lyrical harshness of Bill Douglas...Hopkins clearly has a lot in common with such directors: he uses a harsh metaphysical darkness and an acute sense of formal composition.".[7]

Hopkins has been described as being at the centre of an emergent 'British New Wave' alongside directors like Steve McQueen, with Better Things distinguished "by its technical and stylistic approaches to typical problems of British realism".[8] His film work has been noted for its precise compositions and technical rigour, and for its poetic cinematic rendering of realist subject matter, characters and environments.

Hopkins also works in the fields of photography and moving image art. His first solo gallery exhibition Sunday, a collection of single and multi-channel moving image installations, opened at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in March 2009.[9] Sunday deals with contemporary British youth and the relationships between identity, psychology and environment. The format of the individual pieces within the Sunday collection is that of multiple images knitted together to form multi-screen scenes, each working in different ways with atmosphere and narrative. The impression formed is suggestive of a social-realist fairy tale – the subtle interaction of realist, surreal and romantic tropes. With Sunday Hopkins was said to have "created an experience that is entirely separate from the conventions of sitting in a cinema. He generates a portrait of youth that has a matter of fact, harsh reality to it and a psychological intensity that is unnerving.[10]" Sunday was also exhibited at galleries in Liverpool[11] and Yokohama[12] in 2009.

Hopkins produces the work of other filmmakers through Third, a company co-founded with producer Samm Haillay. With Third Hopkins has produced Daniel Elliott's Venice-winning short film The Making of Parts and Berlinale-winning Jade.[13] In 2010 he co-produced the feature film debut of the artist Gillian Wearing, titled Self Made.[14]

Filmography[edit]

  • Field (2001)
  • Love Me Or Leave Me Alone (2003)
  • Better Things (2008)
  • Bypass (2014)

Moving Image Art[edit]

  • Sunday (2009) (Installation Series)

References[edit]

  1. ^ http://www.casarotto.co.uk/system/media/client/cv/1821/Duane_Hopkins.pdf[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes - from 16 to 27 may 2012". Archived from the original on 18 August 2011. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
  3. ^ https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117937185.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&query=better+things+duane+ [dead link]
  4. ^ "Peter Bradshaw on an Israeli docu-drama about the atrocities of war". TheGuardian.com. 19 May 2008.
  5. ^ The Independent
  6. ^ "BFI | Sight & Sound | Film of the Month: Better Things (2007)". Archived from the original on 15 August 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  7. ^ https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117937185.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&query=better+things+duane+ [dead link]
  8. ^ "BFI | Sight & Sound | Cannes 2008: A royal rumpus". Archived from the original on 22 January 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
  9. ^ "DUANE HOPKINS - Exhibitions - BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art". Archived from the original on 7 December 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
  10. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 2010-09-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ^ http://www.openeye.org.uk/past.asp?id=13[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ "| CREAM International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009". Archived from the original on 22 October 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
  13. ^ "UK Film Council - Jade wins Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Short Film; September wins BAFTA for Best Short Film". Archived from the original on 23 May 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
  14. ^ "Self Made | Films | ScreenBase".

External links[edit]

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