Martha Fiennes
Martha Fiennes is a writer, artist and above all filmmaker who can boast of a prestigious award-winning career. She has directed two very high-profile feature films: the sumptuous period film Onegin (1999) with Liv Tyler and Ralph Fiennes which won an award at the Tokyo Film Festival and was also nominated for the BAFTA (Best British Film) in 1999. Chromophobia, on the other hand – with an international cast from Penelope Cruz to Damian Lewis and Kristin Scott Thomas – was written and directed by Martha Fiennes and was the film that closed the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
Since 2011, Martha Fiennes has been working on a series of futuristic and experimental projects which take advantage of the possibilities opened up by new technologies. With the aid of the producer Peter Muggleston, she has developed SLOimage, a system which lets images literally come to life according to a computer-calculated algorithm. Fiennes uses technology without complexes, creating sophisticated video projects which break down the boundaries between conventional cinema and art.
The first creation in SLOimage was Nativity which debuted at the V&A in London, to then be publicly visible at Covent Garden (10 November 2011 – 2 January 2012), at the National Gallery, at Sotheby’s, in both the London and Paris head offices, and at least reaching the Venice Biennial in 2017.
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