Moving between domestic images, political catastrophe, feminist noir and dream logic, Gibson allows autobiography and fiction to spill into one another. Motherhood, friendship and inheritance become collective questions: What do we pass on? How do we resist? And who helps us find a path through the chaos?
I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead
2018 | 21 min | United Kingdom
Director: Beatrice Gibson
With: CAConrad, Eileen Myles
Music: Pauline Oliveros
Made as a love letter to Gibson’s daughter, the film begins in the shadow of Donald Trump’s inauguration and unfolds across a year marked by forced migration, the Grenfell Tower fire, war and political upheaval. Radical poets CAConrad and Eileen Myles read, perform rituals and search for another way through the noise, while intimate images of family life hold the future close. Moving between panic and tenderness, Gibson turns poetry into an instrument of survival—something capable of naming fear, summoning empathy and keeping hope alive.
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
2019 | 22 min | United Kingdom
Original title: Deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs
Director: Beatrice Gibson
Based on a screenplay by: Gertrude Stein
Cinematographer: Ben Rivers
Music: Laurence Crane
World premiere: Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival, 2019
Two sisters who are not sisters, two pregnancies, a two-seater car, a beauty queen, a poodle and the election of another fascist, this time in Brazil. Drawing on Gertrude Stein’s 1929 screenplay, written as fascism gathered force in Europe, Gibson relocates its strange repetitions to contemporary Paris.
Friends and influences become detectives, mothers and doubles in a crime thriller without a crime, unfolding through dream logic, feminist friendship and noir. Shot on anamorphic 16mm by Ben Rivers, the film asks what we inherit, what we owe one another and how collective imagination might interrupt history’s return.
