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.

Civil Twilight at the Vernal Equinox

Skinned

The Infernal Grove

You Are an Amazement

You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born

After the American Election

Onikuma

Dear Lorde

Here Is Everything

Lesser Apes

Beauty Plus Pity

Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure

Figure vs. Ground

Curious About Existence

Being F***ed Up

Bad Ideas for Paradise