Sally Potter

Features

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    The Roads Not Taken

    The Roads Not Taken follows 24 turbulent hours in the life of father and daughter Leo (Javier Bardem) and Molly (Elle Fa...

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    The Party

    Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results i...

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    Ginger & Rosa

    London, 1962. Two teenage girls - Ginger and Rosa - are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politi...

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    RAGE

    [removed][removed] Michelangelo, an unseen schoolboy armed only with a mobile phone, goes behind the scenes at a New Yor...

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    Yes

    YES is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abka...

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    The Man Who Cried

    Fegele (Christina Ricci), a Russian Jewish refugee working in a variety troupe in Paris just before the Second World War...

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    The Tango Lesson

    THE TANGO LESSON is about a female filmmaker who discovers and falls in-love with the tango. In between bouts of writing...

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    Orlando

    ORLANDO is a story of the quest for love, and it is also an ironic dance through English history. Addressing contemporar...

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    The Gold Diggers

    The ground-breaking first feature from the director of ORLANDO and THE TANGO LESSON, THE GOLD DIGGERS is a key film of e...


Short Films

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    Look at Me

    Rehearsals for a fundraising gala become the arena for a struggle between two men; one, the gala director and the other,...

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    London Story

    Spy spoof revolving around the unlikely alliance of three eccentric characters and their mission to uncover government f...

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    Thriller

    Since its release in 1980, Sally Potter's rewriting of Puccini's opera, La Boheme, has become a classic in feminist film...


Early Works

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    Combines

    One of the earliest events to combine dance on film projected in juxtaposition with live performances by the same dancer...

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    Hors d’oeuvres

    8mm footage of dancers each performing a single movement was projected onto a ground glass screen and refilmed on 16mm t...

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    PLAY

    Double screen film of six children playing on the street below (three sets of twins). Filmed through two adjacent camera...

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    Jerk

    Film shot one frame at a time, of three faces, including a brother and sister, which merge to become one, followed by a ...

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