Sally Potter
Sally POTTER (1949, London, United Kingdom) left school at the age of 16 to embark on a career as a director. As a member of the London Film-Makers’ Co-op, she made experimental short films. She also trained as a dancer and choreographer at the London School for Contemporary Dance and sang in several bands. Potter won prizes as an artist and as a theatre and film director, for instance of Orlando (1992) and The Man Who Cried (2000). In 2012 she was given an OBE for her services to film.
Filmography
Jerk (1969, short), Play (1970, short), Hors d’oeuvres (1971, short), Thriller (1979, short), The Gold Diggers (1983), The London Story (1986, short), I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman (1988, doc), Orlando (1992), The Tango Lesson (1996), The Man Who Cried (2000), Yes (2004), Rage (2009), Ginger and Rosa (2012)
Sally Potter at IFFR
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Ginger and Rosa
London in the Swinging Sixties. The start of the sexual revolution, alongside protests against the Cold War. Ideological differences and painful tr
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Thriller
This playful feminist murder mystery, a rewrite of Pucini’s La Bohème, has become a classic in feminist film theory.