Directing

Stuart Croft

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Stuart Croft (1970 – 14 March 2015) was a British artist and filmmaker. As an artist and a film maker, Stuart Croft utilized the aesthetics and linguistics of cinema and presented it in the context of a gallery. Writing and directing dialogue based narratives, Croft's films often weave together Hollywood styled characters in an endless cycle of story telling. Always shown on loop the films never have a beginning nor an end just an elliptical narrative that folds into itself. Croft studied at Newcastle Polytechnic, the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and Chelsea College of Art in London, graduating with an MA in 1998. His work was shown widely in the UK, Europe and the U.S. C…

Known for

Behind the camera

Century City poster
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The murder of an actress prompts an illogical, circular phone conversation between a detective in Cape Town and a movie director in Los Angeles. 'Century City' is shown in galleries as a dual-screen installation. It is a circular narrative, running on a continuous loop.

Century City

2006

Century City poster
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The murder of an actress prompts an illogical, circular phone conversation between a detective in Cape Town and a movie director in Los Angeles. 'Century City' is shown in galleries as a dual-screen installation. It is a circular narrative, running on a continuous loop.

Century City

2006

Remetior poster
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The kidnapped commander of a spacecraft recites poetry.

Remetior

2014

Remetior poster
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The kidnapped commander of a spacecraft recites poetry.

Remetior

2014

Remetior poster
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The kidnapped commander of a spacecraft recites poetry.

Remetior

2014

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A woman delivers a circular shaggy-dog story about paradise to a man who drives an endless road journey.

Drive In

2007

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A woman delivers a circular shaggy-dog story about paradise to a man who drives an endless road journey.

Drive In

2007

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A woman delivers a circular shaggy-dog story about paradise to a man who drives an endless road journey.

Drive In

2007

Comma 39 poster
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An aristocratic beauty and a wounded man dance an endless dance of desire and betrayal.

Comma 39

2011

Comma 39 poster
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An aristocratic beauty and a wounded man dance an endless dance of desire and betrayal.

Comma 39

2011

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A local TV murder reconstruction is fused with a corporate video for a stress management centre.

Point X

1998

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A Scottish man recites an endless, gothic ghost story to a group of silent dinner guests.

The Death Waltz

2008

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8.0

Two characters played by three actors are caught in a circle of shifting identity and noirish revenge.

Hit

2003

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A man in mourning delivers a recurring fable about deception, guilt and the temptation of power.

The Stag Without a Heart

2010

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A series of low-key, fake TV 'commercials.'

Several Small Fires

2005