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Emily Richardson

Emily Richardson is a UK-based artist filmmaker who creates film portraits of particular places. Her work focuses on sites in transition and covers an extraordinarily diverse range of landscapes including empty East End streets, forests, North Sea oil fields, post-war tower blocks, empty cinemas and Cold War military facilities.

Richardson’s films have been shown in galleries, museums and festivals internationally including Barbican Cinema, London; Pompidou Centre, Paris; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London; Uppsala Museum, Sweden and Venice, Edinburgh, London, Rotterdam and New York Film Festivals.