Sophie Fiennes

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Sophie Fiennes
Born
Sophia Victoria Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes

(1967-02-12) 12 February 1967 (age 54)
Occupation
  • Film director
  • producer
Parents
Relatives

Sophia Victoria Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (/faɪnz/; born 12 February 1967), better known as Sophie Fiennes,[a] is an English film director and producer.[1] She is the sister of actors Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes, director Martha Fiennes and composer Magnus Fiennes.[2]

Career[]

Fiennes managed the UK based dance company The Michael Clark Company from 1992 to 1994 and began making her own films in 1998.[3] With Peter Greenaway she worked on films and TV projects including Drowning by Numbers, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover and Prospero's Books.

Films[]

Show and Tell[]

Made for ZDF/Arte is about Les Ballets C. de la B.'s dance performance VSPRS. A the dimensions of ecstasy and trauma that form the core of the performance are captured, whilst interviews with Platel and the dancers themselves are also included.

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema[]

Fiennes' documentary The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, is written and presented by the philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek.[4][5]

Fiennes and Žižek then filmed a followup, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology.[6] The format is similar, with Žižek speaking from within reconstructed scenes from films.[7] This time the films include Full Metal Jacket, Taxi Driver, They Live and The Sound of Music.[8][9]

Family[]

Fiennes is the daughter of the photographer Mark Fiennes and the novelist and painter Jennifer Lash. She is the sister of Ralph, Martha, Magnus, Joseph and Jacob Fiennes. In an interview with the Evening Standard, Fiennes said that "We were the branch of the family everyone was slightly embarrassed by."[10]

Awards[]

Fiennes was awarded a NESTA fellowship in 2001.

Filmography[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ This British person has the barrelled surname Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, but is known by the surname Fiennes.

References[]

  1. ^ Gray, Carmen (21 October 2017). "Sexism and the music doc: 'Grace Jones has had her 15 minutes'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  2. ^ Pavan Amara (10 October 2010). "Sophie Fiennes: 'My film is about an artist, not about my name'". The Independent. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Sophie Fiennes". IFFR. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  4. ^ Elizabeth Day (21 September 2013). "Sophie Fiennes: 'Film-goers are bored with being talked down to'". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  5. ^ Day, Elizabeth (21 September 2013). "Sophie Fiennes: 'Film-goers are bored with being talked down to'". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  6. ^ Anne Thompson. Pervert's Guide to Cinema's Fiennes and Zizek Reteam for Pervert's Guide to Ideology Archived 9 July 2012 at archive.today. IndieWire. 14 October 2011.
  7. ^ Danny Leigh, "Slavoj Žižek: Blofeld rides again," Guardian, 16 October 2011.
  8. ^ "Sophie Fiennes: 'My film is about an artist, not about my name'". The Independent. 10 October 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Q&A: Documentary Maker Sophie Fiennes on the Intimacy and Magic of Grace Jones". Run Riot. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Sophie Fiennes: Here's one I made earlier". Evening Standard. 21 May 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  11. ^ Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, "Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (2017) - IMDb" IMDb, 27 October 2017.

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