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Bottomley Bottomley, Johnny Hourigan

Everybody Says It's All In Your Head

Film expérimental | hdv | couleur | 18:4 | Royaume-Uni | 2015

Everybody says is all in your head is a collaboration between Clare Bottomley and Johnny Hourrigan unfolding as a video diary over one year. Encouraged by Clare to make a portrayal of himself, Johnny gets familiarised into the process of filmmaking and participate fully in all the aspects that define such a production from the choice of the camera to the practice of editing. While he acquires the technical knowledge, Johnny gets full agency in testing and controlling the medium of representation. With a camera that mediates his contact with the outside world, Johnny immerses himself into a journey of self-discovery gaining the confidence to address the unaddressed his condition of mild-autism and the challenges he faces. Through a non-hierarchical and non-didactic approach, Clare Bottomley reveals the potential of learning to create an authentic space of participation and empowerment for subjects whose voices have been marginalised.

Clare Bottomley lives and works in London. With a practice that incorporates video and photography, her work investigates self-portrait and performance of the self. She studied for an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art, London, 2011-2013 and has been working as an art educator for six years. Johnny Hourigan is now a young man studying Media Production at college in south London and developing his independent projects. Johnny sees process of creating the personal view point for the film as ‘...with all the memories remained in the camera, what the camera does not capture are memories in ourselves.’