Clare Dearnaley

Role: Director

‘Refuge’ is a film about the Art collector Ronnie Duncan’s Stone Garden. Shot over a year it is led by capturing light passing across the stones, which appears to animate them and by an absorbing conversation with Ronnie. ‘Refuge’ gently examines stories; the creation of an environment, the nature of possessions and the reclaiming and reusing of materials that are given new purpose and life within the stone walls.

‘To think or reflect is to step aside from events, to give up the world for a space of internal quiet, as if you have entered a walled garden.’

Role: Producer, Co-writer, 2nd unit Director & Editor

Pia Getty Films.

This feature documentary is a reflection of modern china from its artists, filmmakers and curators, narrated by Rufus Sewell.

China’s contemporary artists are at the rock-stars of the art world living a lifestyle more synonymous with New York than the People’s Republic of China. ‘The Great Chinese Art Revolution’ charts the history of contemporary art through its key movements and events since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1979. 

First Broadcast on True Stories, channel 4 2009

Winner best documentary at New York HD Fest

Role: Producer

Breaking Ground tells the story of the London Irish Women's Centre, a radical organisation founded to support generations of Irish women in London. The film does more than just recount the story of the Centre from its origins in the 1980s to its closure in 2012. It is a creative fusion of montage, archive and oral history that greatly contributes to our understanding of radical feminism, national identity and sexual politics during this period. Made by an all women crew, the film combines captivating and candid archive footage filmed in London over 30 years, with thoughtful and provocative accounts from some of the amazing women who were part of the women's movement in the city during that time.