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I had asked my parents for a gun that shot real bullets for
Christmas, but instead I got a movie camera. I was disappointed,
but I resolved to use that camera in much the same way I would
have used a weapon.
- Joe Gibbons
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According to critic J. Hoberman, Gibbons "invented a new
psychodrama which might be termed the 'confessional'" - it
ultimately subverts that genre. Blurring the boundaries between
fact and fiction, self and persona, his films and tapes combine
a desire to connect, to confess, with a contradictory impulse to
confabulate and dissimulate."
Joe has received fellowships and awards from the New York
Foundation for the Arts, the NY State Council on the Arts, the
Creative Capital Foundation, The LEF Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts
and Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He has
exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the Whitney Museum
of American Art, the Centre Pompidou, and other venues. His work
has been chosen for the Whitney Biennial, the NY Video Festival,
the Rotterdam Film Festival, and the Black Maria Film and Video
Festival. "Confessions of a Sociopath" was included in "Best
Films of the Year" lists in Film Comment and Artforum magazines.
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