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BIOGRAPHY. Born in 80s London, Celeste Bell spent a part of her childhood with her mother, punk-icon Poly Styrene in George Harrison’s Hare Krishna commune in Hertfordshire and her early adolescence in Brixton, South London.
Feb 1, 2022 · Celeste Bell's "Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché" looks at the life of her mother, influential early punk rocker Poly Styrene.
Celeste's debut feature documentary co-directed alongside Paul Sng was released in 2021 in the UK and 2022 in the US, winning two BIFA awards and nominated for both the BAFTA Scotland and Grierson documentary awards.
As Bell says in a new, extraordinary documentary about her mother’s life and work, “it took an incredible amount of strength for my mum to walk away from X-Ray Spex,” a band at “the height ...
Feb 2, 2022 · In 2016, five years after the death of Poly Styrene—the punk legend and trailblazing frontwoman of the short-lived but fiercely beloved band X-Ray Spex—her daughter, Celeste Bell, finally...
Celeste Bell is a London based creative working in film, music, art, and writing.
Celeste Bell and Paul Sng’s terrific and deeply moving documentary Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché casts a hand-hewn spell; much like its subject, the artist and musician Poly Styrene (1957-2011), it conjures a collaged world that is alternately intentional and reflective, yet steeped in the search for a certain liberating transcendence from the ...
