Country: Ireland, UK
Year: 2017
Duration: 115'
Over-the-top, uninhibited, disquieting and androgynous: Grace Jones embodies all these adjectives. The polyhedral Jamaican artist reveals her most intimate side as a lover, daughter, mother, sister and even grandmother, and lets us discover what hides behind the unique and strong image she has molded onto herself.
Biography
film director
Sophie Fiennes
Sophie Fiennes (Ipswich, UK, 1967) is an English director and producer. After studying painting at the Chelsea School of Art, she collaborated between 1987 and 1992 with Peter Greenaway, before going on to direct the Michael Clark Company dance ensemble. She debuted in film in 1998 with the short Lars from 1-10, in which Lars von Trier explains the origin of Dogma 95, which was followed by other documentaries, including including the two titles created together with the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012), selected at the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lars from 1-10 (cm, doc., 1998), The Late Michael Clark (doc., 1999), Because I Sing (doc., 2001), Hoover Street Revival (doc., 2002), The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (doc., 2006), VSPRS Shows and Tell (doc., 2007), Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (doc., 2010), The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (doc., 2012) First Row Orchestra (tv, cm, doc., 2012), Liu Xiaodong Half Street (doc., 2013), Grace Jones - Bloodlight and Bami (doc., 2017).
Declaration
film director
“This movie was born in a creative spirit of collaboration. Grace has always meticulously controlled her public image, but she has wisely decided to take off the mask. She never tried to control the shooting and I never doubted her narrative process as I was shooting. For five years, I simply gathered evidence. The simplicity of the shots allowed me to establish an intimacy with Grace and to react to the visual abundance of the places and the shared moments. But the power of Grace’s performances called for a more complex level of visual and sound production. This showed me how important the mise-en-scène was for her and we created a unique theatre studio for this movie.”
Cast
& Credits
Sophie Fiennes
fotografia/cinematography
Remko Schnorr
costumi/costume design
Philip Treacy
interpreti/cast
Grace Jones, Jean-Paul Goude, Sly and Robbie
produttori/producers
Katie Holly, Sophie Fiennes, Shani Hinton, Beverly Jones
produzione/production
BBC Films, BFI, Irish Film Board, Roads Entertainmen, Pure
fotografia/cinematography
Remko Schnorr
costumi/costume design
Philip Treacy
interpreti/cast
Grace Jones, Jean-Paul Goude, Sly and Robbie
produttori/producers
Katie Holly, Sophie Fiennes, Shani Hinton, Beverly Jones
produzione/production
BBC Films, BFI, Irish Film Board, Roads Entertainmen, Pure
