Joanna Hogg

Director

March 20, 1960 (66 years)

London, England, UK

Biography

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, receiving nominations at the British Independent Film Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards and at the Berli…

Filmography

6.1

The Souvenir

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

6.0

The Eternal Daughter

An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.

6.5

The Souvenir: Part II

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.

5.7

Archipelago

Deep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the Isles of Scilly.

5.8

Unrelated

A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.

5.0

Exhibition

An intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple, whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home.

6.2

Caprice

A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.

10.0

EastEnders: Dot's Story

Dot travels to Wales to visit the now very ill woman who she stayed with during World War II.

6.3

Autobiography of a Handbag

The film reimagines the life of a Miu Miu Wander bag as it moves between owners, places, and social realities. The bag becomes a silent witness to human experiences—love, loss, and reinvention.

N/A

Flat 19

A reconstruction of Tilda Swinton's 1980s London flat and an exploration of memory, space and personal history.

N/A

Awakening

From outside, the world seeps into the ear, threatening with all its possibilities, live and in color. So better to turn around once more, close your eyes, and keep on dreaming. Yet reality is harsher: Pull yourself together! Open the window! That window which grants surprising insights from astonishing perspectives, and which also opens in the cinema, that place of unexpected answers to unasked questions. With precision and perfection, Joanna Hogg shapes that threshold moment of unrest and resistance, followed by the realization that nothing better could possibly have come to mind in order – finally! – to move and to act.

6.0

Présages

Notebook for a past or future film, shot in Los Angeles, Hogg roams the city like a haunted place where memories, anxieties and fantasies mingle.

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