Sophie Fiennes

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Sophia Victoria Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, known as Sophie Fiennes (born 12 February 1967), is an English filmmaker best known for Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (2017) and Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010), and for her collaborations with philosopher Slavoj Žižek on The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012). Fiennes combines observational documentary with staged performance sequences. Reviewing her early work, the critic Danny Leigh wrote that she was "adamant she wants [Michael] Clark – or whoever she happens to be dealing with – to be understood through their work rather than the other way around". Peter Bradshaw described her 2010 film Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow as a "participatory documentary" in which the filmmaker "gets alongside her subject and in some way contributes to the art being created". Fiennes' work has screened at festivals including Cannes, Toronto, Rotterdam, IDFA and Sundance, and has shown in museums including the...

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