People Like Us
- Known for
- Directing
Since 1991, British artist Vicki Bennett has been working across the field of audio-visual collage and is recognised as an influential and pioneering figure in the still-growing area of sampling, appropriation, and cutting up of found footage and archives. Working under the name People Like Us, Vicki specialises in the manipulation and reworking of original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film, and radio. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use. In 2006, she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at, amongst others, Tate Modern, The Barbican, Centro de Cultura Digital, Maxxi, and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. She has an ongoing sound art radio show 'DO or DIY' on WFMU. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb. In 2013, Vicki premiered the performance Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another) at transmediale, created a film for live improvising artists/musicians NOTATIONS which toured the UK with TUSK/Sound & Music, a film with 7 artist soundtracks GESTURE PIECE, films for Animate Projects/Channel 4, and a new CD called Don't Think Right, It's All Twice. Vicki had a solo gallery show Shutter at Leeds College of Art in February 2014 and is currently working on a new film/performance Citation City, a project reflecting upon Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project in relation to 20th-Century London.
Filmography
1 unreleased or undated title is hidden. Show unreleased
Citation City 2015
Director
Matmos: Ultimate Care II Excerpt Five 2014
Director
The Big Sleep 2014
Director
We Are Not Amused 2013
Writer, Director
The Golem - An Inanimate Matter 2013
Director, Writer
Notations 2013
Director
Bridge 2012
Director
4'33" The Movie 2012
Director
The Doors Of Perspection 2011
Director
The Magical Misery Tour 2011
Director
Clean Your Room 2011
Director
The Sound Of The End Of Music 2010
Director
Singin 2009
Director
Parade 2009
Director
An Induction is a Draft is a Gust of Air 2009
Director
Skew Gardens 2008
Director
Work, Rest & Play 2007
Director
Trying Things Out 2007
Director
At the Movies 2005
Director
Story Without End 2005
Director
Resemblage 2004
Director
The Remote Controller 2003
Director
We Edit Life 2002
Director, Writer
New Knowledge 2000
Director
Well, If You'd Like to See… 1999
Director
Burning 1999
Director
Discovering Electronic Music 1999
Director
Music Of Your Own 1999
Director
Nothing Can Turn Into a Void: An Art Apart: People Like Us 2015
Actor, Music
Credits from TMDB.