Sally Potter

SALLY'S NEW FILM

webmaster — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:20:47 +0000

I am Christopher Sheppard, Sally Potter's producer on all her films since ORLANDO. Right now we are working on a new film that we will shoot early next year. At times like this, Sally doesn't do...

WAITING FOR GODARD

sally potter — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:21:20 +0000

It rained in Cannes the day I left; the Croisette and the open-air cinema on the beach suddenly desolate and deserted. I had queued for an hour the day before in hot sunshine to see the new Godard...

BOLLYWOOD SPEED

sally potter — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:01:25 +0000

In March, we showed RAGE in Bombay as part of a small festival of British films, called FROM BLIGHTY WITH LOVE. The screening took place simultaneously in 11 cinemas in four cities and I did a Q and...

SMALL OR LARGE

sally potter — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:16:21 +0000

RAGE has had to make its way into the world against the prevailing view of what constitutes ‘cinema’. Releasing it on mobile phones and the internet sparked enormous interest but also provoked fear...

TRAVEL AND ASH

sally potter — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:23:05 +0000

Stranded in Barcelona (after giving a master-class as part of the exemplary ‘Four Corners' scheme which has participants from East and West Europe) due to volcanic ash in the atmosphere – which...

THE TRUE FACE

sally potter — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:04:52 +0000

In NYC last September, early one jetlagged morning, I found myself musing over an extremely interesting conversation held a few days previously in London with Sandy Nairne, (director of the National...

Vertigo, alas!

sally potter — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:21:01 +0000

Last night I went to the closing party for Vertigo, the outstanding film magazine which has held a unique place in film writing over the last 16 years. I found myself heartbroken that the magazine...

Ah, Music!

sally potter — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:52:10 +0000

Last week Fred Frith and I did a masterclass on film and music at Goldsmiths College, linked to my retrospective at the BFI. After some deliberation I decided to use PLAY – a short film I had made...

JOY

sally potter — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:46:48 +0000

It was pure joy to sit on a platform with Tilda again the other night. The digitally re-mastered ORLANDO looked and sounded fully present, with the colours as vibrant as they were originally intended...

Looking Forward

sally potter — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:24:04 +0000

A retrospective of my films starts this week in London. It is a strange moment. Has that much time passed already? And just who is the stranger who did this stuff behind my back? A sort of necessary...