Person
Emily Vey Duke
Directing
Biography
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.
Known for

Onikuma
Thanks

Skinned
2021

Figure vs. Ground
Co-Director

Lesser Apes
Director

You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born
Director

Dear Lorde
Screenplay

The Infernal Grove
Director

Bad Ideas for Paradise
Director

Beauty Plus Pity
Director
The Fine Arts
Director
Filmography
- 2021Civil Twilight at the Vernal EquinoxDirector
- 2021Skinned
- 2021The Infernal GroveDirector
- 2019You Are an AmazementDirector
- 2019You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were BornDirector
- 2018After the American ElectionThanks
- 2016OnikumaThanks
- 2015Dear LordeScreenplay
- 2013Here Is EverythingDirector
- 2011Lesser ApesDirector
- 2009Beauty Plus PityDirector
- 2006Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond CureDirector
- 2004Figure vs. GroundCo-Director
- 2003Curious About ExistenceDirector
- 2002The Fine ArtsDirector
- 2001Being F***ed Up
- 2001Bad Ideas for ParadiseDirector
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