thu 14/08/2025

mark kidel

Bio
Mark is a documentary filmmaker and writer specialising in the arts and music. Recent films include "Becoming Cary Grant" (Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2017), "The Juilliard Experiment" (2016) "Elvis Costello: Mystery Dance ", "Road Movie: A Portrait of John Adams", "Painting the Moment", a film about the French painter Fabienne Verdier and "Martin Amis's England". He is current developing feature-length documentaries Norman Foster, and the 30-year relationship between Alberto Giacometti and the English painter Isabel Rawsthorne.

Articles By Mark Kidel

Album: Sufjan Stevens - Javelin

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PJ Harvey, Roundhouse, London review - incandescent perfection

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Blu-Ray: Partie de Campagne

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Anselm Kiefer: Finnegans Wake, White Cube Bermondsey review - an awe-inspiring show

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Album: PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying

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Brian Clarke - A Great Light, Newport Street Gallery review - a British master proves his worth

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Album: Jantra - Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Sounds from the Fashaga Underground

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Jaminaround, Ancient Technology Centre, Dorset review - music in the round that delights

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Album: Danûk - Morîk

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Keggie Carew: Beastly review - the history of animals and us

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Album: Baaba Maal - Being

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New Regency Orchestra, Colour Factory review - sizzling Afro-Cuban big band

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Album: The Orb - Prism

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Grenfell by Steve McQueen, Serpentine Gallery review - a stirring memorial for the tower block inferno

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Complicité, Barbican review - murder in the forest

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Album: Sissoko Ségal Parisien Peirani - Les Égarés

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