Emily Vey Duke
Directing
Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke have been working collaboratively since June 1994. Their work has been broadcast and exhibited around the world. Duke and Battersby are currently teaching at Syracuse University in Central New York. In 2010 they were shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award. Their work is distributed by Video Data Bank in Chicago, Argos in Brussels, V-Tape in Toronto and Video Out in Vancouver. In 2012, a book about their work, titled The Beauty is Relentless, was published by Coach House Press. In the fall of 2015, Duke’s book The Illuminations, a collaboration with Shary Boyle, was published by Oakville Galleries.
Behind the camera
2021Civil Twilight at the Vernal Equinox
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2021The Infernal Grove
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2019You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born
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2019You Are an Amazement
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2015Dear Lorde
Director & Screenplay
2013Here Is Everything
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2011Lesser Apes
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2009Beauty Plus Pity
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2006Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure
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2003Curious About Existence
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2001Bad Ideas for Paradise
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2001Being F***ed Up
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