Joanna Hogg

Not to be confused with Joanne Hogg.

Joanna Hogg (born 20 March 1960) is a British film director and screenwriter. She made her directorial and screenwriting feature film debut in 2007 with Unrelated followed by Archipelago (2010), Exhibition (2013), The Souvenir (2019), The Souvenir Part II (2021), and The Eternal Daughter (2022). Two of her films topped the Sight & Sound annual poll for best film in their respective years,^[1][2] receiving nominations at the British Independent Film Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards and at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Joanna Hogg
Joanna Hogg in 2014
Born	(1960-03-20) 20 March 1960 (age 64) London, England
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	1986–present

Career

Early TV work

After leaving school in the late 1970s, Hogg worked as a photographer and began to make experimental super-8 films after borrowing a camera from Derek Jarman, who became an early mentor after a chance meeting in Patisserie Valerie in Soho.^[3] One of these, a film about a kinetic sculpture by artist Ron Haselden, won her a place to study direction at the National Film and Television School. In 1986, her graduation piece called Caprice starred Tilda Swinton.^[4] On graduation, Hogg directed several music videos for artists such as Alison Moyet, and won her first television commission writing and directing a programme segment for Janet Street-Porter's Channel Four series Network 7, Flesh + Blood. In the 1990s, Hogg directed episodes of London Bridge, Casualty and London's Burning. She also directed the EastEnders special EastEnders: Dot's Story (2003).

Film

Hogg has said, "I wanted to make a film doing everything I was told not to do in television".^[4] She shot her first feature, Unrelated (2007), in Tuscany. It tells the story of a childless woman, Anna (Kathryn Worth), of around forty who goes on holiday to Italy with her friend Verena (Mary Roscoe) and her teenage family. Over the course of the holiday, tensions emerge as Anna spends less time with the 'grown-ups' and is drawn towards the teenage crowd and the attractions of Verena's teenage nephew (Tom Hiddleston). The film received critical acclaim, premiering at the London Film Festival in 2007 and winning the FIPRESCI International Critics Award.^[5] It also won the Guardian First Film Award in 2008 and the Evening Standard British Film Awards 'Most Promising Newcomer' Award in 2009, as well as being nominated for their Best Film Award and earning Hogg a nomination for the London Film Critics' Circle 'Breakthrough Filmmaker' Award in 2009.

Her second film, Archipelago, shot on the island of Tresco had its UK premiere at the 2010 London Film Festival, where it was nominated in the Best Film category. It was released in the UK on 4 March 2011 by Artificial Eye.^[6] Her third film Exhibition starred musician Viv Albertine and artist Liam Gillick and also featured Hogg's long-time collaborator Tom Hiddleston. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2013. Peter Bradshaw writing in The Guardian hailed it as 'a masterful cinematic enigma' awarding it the full five stars.^[7]

In the A24 podcast episode "A Bigger Canvas", Martin Scorsese has a conversation with Hogg where it is revealed that he saw her film Archipelago and reached out to her wanting to collaborate with her.^[8] He served as an executive producer for her next film, The Souvenir (2019). The film premiered in the Sundance Film Festival.^[9] It was released in the United States on 17 May 2019 by A24 and in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2019 by Curzon Artificial Eye.^[10] The title refers to the painting of the same name by Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Hogg's personal life, with the performance of Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke and Tilda Swinton.^[11] The film was nominated in several film awards ceremonies and festivals, including the Berlin International Film Festival, the British Independent Film Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards.

The sequel, The Souvenir Part II, had its premier at Cannes Film Festival in July 2021,^[12] receiving critical acclaim, with nominations at the British Independent Film Awards, the Gotham Awards and at the London Film Critics' Circle.^[13][14]

Hogg's newest film, The Eternal Daughter, is a mystery-drama film starring Tilda Swinton. The film was premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.^[15]

Gallery curation

In October 2015 Hogg co-curated the retrospective exhibition of film maker Chantal Akerman's installation work, "Chantal Akerman NOW", at the Ambika P3 Gallery. This was the culmination of a two-year-long retrospective of Akerman's work she had programmed with Adam Roberts, with whom she founded the cinema collective A Nos Amours in 2011. The collective is "dedicated to programming over-looked, under-exposed or especially potent cinema".^[16] In an interview, Hogg said that 'A new generation is growing up who actually don't know the work of directors like Tarkovsky', as a major motivation behind establishing the collective.^[17]

Influences and style

Hogg's style is influenced by European and Asian directors such as Eric Rohmer and Yasujirō Ozu, using extended takes and minimal camera movement.^[18] She takes the unusual approach of casting a mixture of actors and non-professional actors in her films, such as the landscape painter Christopher Baker in Archipelago. Her depiction of unarguably middle-class characters has prompted some commentators to see her work as spearheading a new type of social realism in British film.^[19][20]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1986	Caprice	Yes	Yes	No	Short film
2007	Unrelated	Yes	Yes	No
2010	Archipelago	Yes	Yes	No
2013	Exhibition	Yes	Yes	No
2019	The Souvenir	Yes	Yes	Yes
2021	The Souvenir Part II	Yes	Yes	Yes
2022	The Eternal Daughter	Yes	Yes	Yes

Television

• Flesh + Blood (miniseries for Network 7) Channel Four (1988)
• Kersplat (six episodes) Channel Four (1991)
• Dance Eight BBC (1992)
• Going Underground Carlton Television (1992)
• Oasis (10-part drama) Carlton Television (1992)
• London Bridge Carlton Television (16 episodes 1995–1996)
• Staying Alive (two episodes) LWT (1997)
• Casualty BBC (1997–1998)
• London's Burning LWT (1999)
• Reach for the Moon (three episodes) LWT (2000)
• EastEnders: Dot's Story BBC (2003)

Awards and nominations

Association	Year	Work	Category	Result	Ref.
Bergen International Film Festival	2019	Cinema Extraordinare Award	The Souvenir	Nominated	[21]
Berlin International Film Festival	2019	Panorama Award	The Souvenir	Nominated	[22]
British Independent Film Awards	2019	Best British Independent Film	The Souvenir	Nominated	[23]
		Best Director		Nominated
		Best Screenplay		Nominated
	2021	Best British Independent Film	The Souvenir: Part II	Nominated	[14]
		Best Director		Nominated
		Best Screenplay		Nominated
Chlotrudis Awards	2015	Best Director	Archipelago	Nominated	[24]
Cinema Eye Honors	2020	Heterodox Award	The Souvenir	Won	[25]
	2022		The Souvenir: Part II	Pending	[26]
Dublin Film Critics' Circle	2019	Best Screenplay	The Souvenir	Nominated	[27]
Edinburgh International Film Festival	2019	Best British Feature Film	The Souvenir	Nominated	[28]
Evening Standard British Film Awards	2009	Most Promising Newcomer	Unrelated	Won	[29]
	2011	Best Film	Archipelago	Nominated	[30]
		Best Documentary		Nominated
Independent Spirit Awards	2020	Best International Film	The Souvenir	Nominated	[31]
Gotham Awards	2021	Best International Feature	The Souvenir: Part II	Nominated	[13]
HCA Midseason Awards	2019	Best Female Director	The Souvenir	Nominated	[32]
Locarno Film Festival	2013	Golden Leopard	Exhibition	Nominated	[33]
London Film Critics' Circle	2008	Breakthrough British Filmmaker	Unrelated	Nominated	[34]
	2019	Screenwriter of the Year	The Souvenir	Nominated	[34]
	2021	Director of the Year	The Souvenir: Part II	Pending	[35]
London Film Festival	2007	International Critics Award	Unrelated	Won	[36]

References

1. "The 50 best films of 2019". Sight & Sound. British Film Institute. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
2. "The 50 best films of 2021". Sight & Sound. British Film Institute. 3 December 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
3. Nick Roddick "Joanna Hogg is darling of film critics", Evening Standard, 22 September 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
4. Roger Clarke "Talent issue – the film director: Joanna Hogg", The Independent, 29 December 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2010
5. "100 best films of the noughties: Nos 11–100", The Guardian, 18 December 2009. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
6. Leo Barraclough "Artificial Eye nabs 'Archipelago'", Variety, 17 September 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
7. Peter Bradshaw, "Exhibition review – Joanna Hogg creates a masterful cinematic enigma" The Guardian, 24 April 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
8. "A Bigger Canvas with Martin Scorsese & Joanna Hogg". A24. 15 May 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
9. Debruge, Peter (28 November 2018). "Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2019 Features Lineup". Variety. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
10. Hipes, Patrick (3 December 2018). "A24 Acquires Joanna Hogg's Sundance-Bound 'The Souvenir'". Deadline. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
11. "The 50 best films of 2019 | Sight & Sound". British Film Institute. 23 December 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
12. "Self, Invention: Honor Swinton Byrne and Joanna Hogg on 'The Souvenir Part II'". Vogue. 29 October 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
13. Lewis, Hilary (21 October 2021). "Gotham Awards: 'The Lost Daughter,' 'Passing' Lead Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
14. Ramachandran, Naman (3 November 2021). "'Belfast,' 'Boiling Point' Lead BIFA Nominations". Variety. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
15. "La Biennale di Venezia 2022 | The Eternal Daughter". La Biennale di Venezia. 8 July 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
16. "A Nos Amours: home". www.anosamours.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
17. "For the love of it – An interview with A Nos Amours' Joanna Hogg &... – notes from a cinema nation". cargocollective.com. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
18. Antonio Pasolini "Joanna Hogg", kamera.co.uk salon, 18 September 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
19. Nick Roddick "A Question of Class", Sight & Sound, March 2011
20. The Guardian, 25 February 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
21. "Bergen International Film Festival 2019". MUBI. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
22. "69th Berlin International Film Festival February 07- 17, 2019". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
23. "Armando Iannucci's David Copperfield leads Bifa nominations". TheGuardian.com. 30 October 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
24. "21st Annual Awards, March 22, 2015". Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
25. Lewis, Hilary (7 January 2020). "Cinema Eye Honors: 'American Factory,' 'Apollo 11' Top Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
26. Grobar, Matt (10 November 2021). "'Flee' & 'Summer Of Soul' Lead Cinema Eye Honors Nominations". Deadline. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
27. "The 2019 Dublin Film Critics Circle (DFCC) Winners". 17 December 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
28. "Highlights from the 2019 Edinburgh International Film Festival". Edinburgh Festivals. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
29. "Hunger named best picture at Evening Standard British Film awards". the Guardian. 2 February 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
30. "Evening Standard British Film Awards for 2011 – SHORTLIST REVEALED". www.standard.co.uk. 10 April 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
31. Lewis, Hilary (21 November 2019). "Film Independent Spirit Awards: 'Uncut Gems,' 'The Lighthouse' Lead Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
32. "The 2nd Annual LAOFCS Midseason Film Awards Nominations – Hollywood Critics Association". Retrieved 3 January 2022.
33. "2013". Locarno Film Festival. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
34. Child, Ben (19 December 2008). "Slumdog Millionaire leads London critics' nominations". The Guardian.
35. Yossman, K.J. (16 December 2021). "Female Filmmakers Shine at London Critics' Circle Film Awards With Nominations for Jane Campion, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Joanna Hogg". Variety. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
36. "London film festival 2007 | Features | guardian.co.uk Film". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 3 January 2022.

External links

Media related to Joanna Hogg at Wikimedia Commons

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