"It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever, only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it - whatever the medium."
Richard Billingham's Fishtank, a claustrophobic study of his own family, was Artangel's first production for television and was first broadcast in 1998 on BBC 2.
A high-rise council flat in the Midlands. The father, the mother, the brother. Some animals. The father drinks a lot, the brother plays around a bit, the mother holds everything together. The older brother films them with his handycam - closely, slowly, intently, recording whatever is going on.
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