Sophia Victoria Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (; born 12 February 1967), better known as Sophie Fiennes, is an English film director and producer. She is the sister of actors Ralph Fiennes and

Joseph Fiennes Joseph Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (), known as Joseph Fiennes, is an English actor of film, stage, and television. Journalist Zoe Williams observed that "he seemed to be the go-to actor for English cultural history". Fiennes is particul ...

, director

Martha Fiennes Martha Maria Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes () is an English film director, writer and producer. Fiennes is best known for her film '' Onegin'' (1999), which starred her elder brother, Ralph, and her subsequent film ''Chromophobia'' (2005). Career ...

and composer Magnus Fiennes.

Career

Fiennes managed the UK based dance company ''The Michael Clark Company'' from 1992 to 1994 and began making her own films in 1998. With Peter Greenaway she worked on films and TV projects including ''

Drowning by Numbers ''Drowning by Numbers'' is a 1988 British-Dutch film directed by Peter Greenaway. It won the award for Best Artistic Contribution at the Cannes Film Festival of 1988. Plot The film's plot centres on three married women — a grandmother, her da ...

'', '' The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'' and ''

Prospero's Books ''Prospero's Books'' is a 1991 British avant-garde film adaptation of William Shakespeare's '' The Tempest'', written and directed by Peter Greenaway. Sir John Gielgud plays Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration a ...

''.

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 ''The Pervert's Guide to Cinema'' is a 2006 documentary directed and produced by Sophie Fiennes, scripted and presented by Slavoj Žižek. It explores a number of films from a psychoanalytic theoretical perspective. Fiennes and Žižek released a ...

'', is written and presented by the philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek. Fiennes and Žižek then filmed a followup, '' The Pervert's Guide to Ideology''. The format is similar, with Žižek speaking from within reconstructed scenes from films. This time the films include '' Full Metal Jacket'', ''

Taxi Driver ''Taxi Driver'' is a 1976 American film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks. Set in a decaying ...

'', '' They Live'' and '' The Sound of Music''.

Family

Fiennes is the daughter of the photographer

Mark Fiennes Mark Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (11 November 1933 – 30 December 2004) was an English photographer and illustrator. Fiennes was perhaps best known for his architectural studies. Biography Mark Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born at Dalton, Nor ...

and the novelist and painter Jennifer Lash. She is the sister of Ralph, Martha, Magnus,

Joseph Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the m ...

and Jacob Fiennes. In an interview with the ''

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'', Fiennes said that "We were the branch of the family everyone was slightly embarrassed by."

Awards

Fiennes was awarded
NESTA
fellowship in 2001.

Filmography

* 1998 ''Lars from 1-10'' * 2001 ''Because I Sing'' * 2002 ''Hoover Street Revival'' * 2005 ''Ramallah! Ramallah! Ramallah!'' * 2006 ''

'' * 2007 ''VSPRS Show and Tell'' * 2010 ''

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow ''Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow'' is a 2010 Sophie Fiennes documentary about the German industrial artist Anselm Kiefer's creation of a 40 hectare work in progress at an abandoned factory complex outside Barjac, France. Kiefer moved to the ...

'' * 2012 '' The Pervert's Guide to Ideology'' * 2017 ''Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami''Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
"Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (2017) - IMDb" ''IMDb'', 27 October 2017.

Notes

References

External links

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Sophie Fiennes
at the

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Sophie Fiennes
on the ''

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Sophie Fiennes
at the Danish Film Institute
Sophie Fiennes
at the

Austrian Film Commission 'The Austrian Film Commission (AFC), founded in 1987, is an organisation dedicated to promoting Austrian cinema throughout the world. Activities The AFC's role is to increase awareness of Austrian film making abroad and to support the positioning a ...

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Sophie Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess o ...

1967 births Living people