"His creative and modest genius is eternal."

Thurston Moore

Chris Gollon's pioneering use of music, lyrics from Bob Dylan, and collaborations with musicians Thurston Moore, Yi Yao and Eleanor McEvoy, helped him keep painting alive.Through found footage and BBC clips we get to know the artist as he disarmingly reveals his creative process and innovative techniques.

Moving montages of Gollon’s images, combined with music by The Skids, Gavin Bryars, Sleaford Mods, Yi Yao and Eleanor McEvoy, give an insight into how Gollon fused the two, and how one energised or changed the other.

The film shows how Chris Gollon was an incredibly sensitive painter of women, and also how his androgynous figures express a powerful common humanity. Describing the surge of interest in Gollon’s work since his untimely death in 2017, the film discusses the importance of his imagery to us in the 21st century.

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Overviews are given by artist Maggi Hambling CBE, writers Nick Soulsby, Philip Clark and art historians Tamsin Pickeral, Wilfrid Wright and Mary Rose Beaumont.Interviews feature collectors, including André Portasio (Paul O' Grady’s widower), and those who collaborated with Chris: Eleanor McEvoy, Yi Yao, Thurston Moore and novelist Sara Maitland.

World Premiere at the Barbican, London, Screen 1 on 29th October, as part of the Doc ’N Roll Festival 2024. Click Festival logo for information.