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TOP SPOT
 Tracey Emin | GB 2004 | 63 min.
Format: DigiBeta
Original language : English
Script: Tracey Emin
Camera: Sebastian Sharples
Editing: Sebastian Sharples
Sound: Rashad Omar
Music: Melissa Parmentier
Cast: Elizabeth Crawford, Laura Curnick,
Katie Foster Barnes, Helen Laker, Keiri Noddings, Frances
Williams
Production: Revolution Films, BBC Films
Taking its title from a teenage disco, this first feature from “young” British artist Tracey Emin marks a new chapter in her body of autobiographical work. Drawing on her own experiences growing up in Margate, the film features six teenage girls who all have a story to tell.
The film is also a poem to Margate, mixing CV footage and Super 8 fim into a lyrical montage. The natural beauty of the sea and the sunset is linked with Margate’s mor manmade pleasures, underscored with 1970s songs that formed the soundtrack to the artist’s own adolescence.
“You’d learn more about different places by sleeping with someone than you would do by actually travelling, or learning another language” (Tracey Emin)
Tracey Emin, born in 1963 in London, was brought up in Margate, Kent. She studied painting at the Royal College of Art. Emin is one of the Young British Artists and known for her autobiographical installations and video works of her “confessional art”.
Films (selection): Why I Never Became A Dancer 1995 | How It Feels 1996 | CV Cunt Vernacular 1997 | Hommage To Edvard Much And All My Dead Children 1998 | Top Spot 2004 (Langfilm)
Expositions (selection): „My Major Retrospective“, White Cube, London 1994 | Art Cologne 1994 | “Everyone I Have Ever Slept With” Sensation – Gallery Saatchi 1997 | „My Bed“, Exposition of the Turner Prize 1999 | Galerie Gebauer, Berlin 2000 | Haus der Kunst München 2001
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