Sophie Fiennes' Interview: Bloodlight and Bami

The English director hasn’t achieved the commercial success of her brothers Ralph and Joseph, but has been acclaimed in recent years for her collaborations with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek on The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012).
She jokes of how her siblings and her “we were some kind of creative experiment” and that her mother “definitely had an agenda for us”.
Her latest project Bloodlight and Bami is a creative exploration of the singer Grace Jones' identity now- both on and off stage, featuring scenes from her 2016 Olympia show intercut with Jones discussing her troubled childhood.
The piece was shot over five years and takes the format of an observational documentary, a deliberate attempt to break with the tradition of recent music biopics such as Amy and Whitney, which created “simplistic victim narratives about women who were no longer around to answer back”.
Read the full interview now in the latest volume of Hot Press magazine;

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