Dark Glass by Clio Barnard

Clio Barnard’s brilliant debut feature The Arbor – an Artangel/Jerwood commission – opens in the UK on 22 October, after Barnard won the Tribeca Film Festival Award for Best New Documentary Filmmaker earlier this year. We’ll be posting an interview with Clio nearer the release date, but in the meantime take a look at Dark Glass.

Clio made Dark Glass in 2006 for Single-Shot, part of the Arts Council England/UK Film Council Moving Image Initiative collaboration, that has also supported Gillian Wearing’s forthcoming feature, Self Made. Shot on a mobile phone, in one take, it’s a remarkably haunting work. You can see it here, along with other Single-Shot commissions and selected films.