Ray & Liz

"Richard Billingham's blisteringly honest photos of his alcoholic dad and his mountainous, tattooed mom - RAY AND LIZ, as they have come to be intimately known - were the toast of Charles Saatchi's epochal late '90s exhibition Sensation." - Elizabeth Fullerton, British art critic. One of Britain's most celebrated artists, Billingham has made an autobiographical debut feature that immerses the viewer in his Midlands childhood of loveless squalor and parental obliviousness. Despair is laced with humor and boredom with cruelty. RAY & LIZ stands in stark contrast to Ken Loach's quasi-heroic working class stories. But because this film is made by a first-rate artist, there is a strange beauty that shines through the rampant horror that suffuses everything we see and hear. Billingham is an original.

Nominated for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer at the BAFTA Awards. Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival.

"Stunningly shot on Super 16mm by Daniel Landin, RAY & LIZ dreamily unfolds as a triptych, fictionalized re-enactments of everyday rituals and details that defy chronology as if jutting forth from memory itself" - Andrea Picard, Cinema Scope Mag