Claire Carré

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Claire Carré is an American director, writer, producer and editor best known for her 2015 debut feature film Embers for which she received an Independent Spirit Awards nomination. Colin Biggs of Cut Print Film proclaimed Carré "one of the new auteurs," and Fantasia Film Festival programmer Simon Laperrière described her as "one of the most promising new voices of American independent cinema." Her sister is the comics artist Lilli Carré.

Carré began her filmmaking career when she was signed to Michel Gondry's company Partizan as a music video director off of the strength of "spec" videos for Antony and the Johnsons and electronic musician Chris Clark. She subsequently directed videos for artists such as Sia, Death Cab For Cutie, Titus Andronicus, and Mat Kearney. Her music video for Sufjan Stevens' "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." was included on the Ekko Danish film magazine's music video compilation DVD. Through the production company Bunker Carré has made fashion films for designers including Katie Gallagher and Christian Joy. Her Christian Joy film was featured in the design show do androids dream of electric shrimp? at the Diesel Art Galleries in New York City and Shibuya, Tokyo.

In a feature article in Seed & Spark's print magazine Bright Ideas, Carré said that "memory" was an important topic for her films. In an interview with Silent Frame she stated, "we cannot escape ourselves. We experience art through our personal embodied senses in space and time, and that includes the filter of our memories." She has cited the film Blade Runner as an influence, saying, "the moments in the film that touch me the most are moments of conversation between two characters... Those moments aren't the moments that have epic production poured into them. They're really just moments of beautiful writing and performance."

In May of 2017 Deadline and Variety reported that AMC was opening a writers room for Silent History, a series created for television by Carré and Charles Spano based on the app and novel The Silent History by Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, Kevin Moffatt, and Russell Quinn. Variety said "Silent History revolves around the upset in the social order with the emergence of a generation of children who cannot comprehend language but have other surprising skills."

Recognition

Carré's 2015 feature film Embers was described by LA Weekly as "a descendent of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker in both tone and mise en scène." The Hollywood Reporter called it, "a stylish debut effort," and Variety noted "Carré’s clear intelligence, resourcefulness and vision combine to make this calling card tough to forget.” Sight & Sound's Anton Bitel lauded the direction, saying, "Carré weaves from her ensemble amnesi-apocalypse a reflection of the human condition as philosophically compelling as it is emotionally intelligent."

The film received wide acclaim with positive reviews from The Hollywood Reporter, The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, The Austin Chronicle, and Sight & Sound among others. The Italian cinema journal Cine Lapsus described the film as, "Beckett absurdly suspended halfway between Memento and City Lights.” Eric Kohn of IndieWire dubbed Embers, "the best science fiction discovery of the year," and Don Simpson writing for Smells Like Screen Spirit called Embers, "one of the most memorable independent science fiction films in the last decade.” In 2017, Embers was included on Collider's list of the Best Sci-Fi Movies on Netflix.

Carré directed the music video for the Sia track "Soon We'll Be Found" incorporating dance with American Sign Language (ASL). The video was released on Sia's Some People Have Real Problems video collection DVD and the TV Is My Parent DVD. PopMatters called it "the best of her vids," and "undeniably beautiful." Spin magazine commented that the video "begins with the quirky Aussie’s paint-dipped hands singing along with the track before they meld into an effervescently neon forest of fingers and arms. At the clip’s conclusion, it seems as if it was all a dream."

Awards and honors

Carré was nominated for a Someone To Watch Award at the 32nd Independent Spirit Awards and for Spotlight On Women Directors Awards at both the 24th and 25th Gotham Awards. She attended the 2014 IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab and has been honored with directing awards from Newport Beach Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival, Other Worlds Austin, and Sarasota Film Festival.

References

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