Mike Figgis
Director / Screenwriter / Producer
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all you need is a girl and a gun...and a fig rig!
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61 years old
London
United Kingdom
Last Login: 9/4/2009
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| Website | manfrotto.com/figrig/ | | Influences | Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Bill Evans, Bach, Beethoven, Charles Ives, Eric Dolphy, Frank Zappa, Lennon, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Lonnie Johnson Nina Simone, Peter King, Joseph Heller, Hemingway, Fred Exley, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Ed Mcbain, Elizabeth Bowen, Mickey Spillane, George Bataille, Donna Tartt, Anthoney Powell, John Berger, Ad Reinhardt, Magritte, Rodin (drawings), Hokusai, Gerhard Richter, Eliot Erwit, Araki, Avedon, Guy Bourdin, Helmut Newton, Lee Miller, Thomas Ruff, Jeanloup Sieff. | | Directors | Godard, Polanski, Cassavetes, Altman, Bergman, Bunuel, Bonnie and Clyde, Lynch, Harmony Korine | | Awards | Leaving LAs Vegas was up for every award going and it it took quite a few of them. I found one the other day that I didn't even remember winning, the Spirit award for best adapted screenplay. Aside from that, to the best of my knowledge - the NY critics award for best film abnd best director, the LA critics award for best director, 2 Spirit awards, 2 Oscar noms, a BAFTA nom, best director at San Sebastian, US critics award - Nic Cage and elisabeth both were nominated for many awards and I believe Nic won the Golden Globe and elisabeth the Spirit. Nic lost out to Sean Penn and the next day at the Oscars Elisabeth lost out to Susan Sarandon for dead Man Walking. I lost out to Mel Gibson (Braveheart) and also to Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility).
Aside from LLV I have been given awards for achievement in cinema and special awards for ?? who knows. I am also a double doctor, honoury degrees at Northumbria uni and also Middlesex Uni. I was a student at ~Middlesex when it was still called trent Park and faked my way into the music department. |
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Zodiac Sign: | Pisces | | Children: | Proud parent | | Occupation: | director |
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About me:
Me? Well, I'm just about hitting my stride now and it's really difficult to cram it all in, this living experience. I love what I do and feel pretty lucky to be able to express myself in as many ways as possible. Music is very important to me and I play something every day, depending on where I am and what my schedule is. I play trumpet guitar and piano mainly but also dabble on bass and drums. I'd say music has always been my main thing, the centre of my being.
I have three very interesting children, adults now, a delightful ex-wife who I get along with very well. I'm in a relationship but that's private. I was raised in East AFRICA, father Irish, mother Northern english, went to school in Newcastle where I played in my first bands (Brian Ferry) have lived in London for most of my life now with long stints in LA.
PROJECTS - well...I'm doing a lot of photography, it's always been something I've loved. I've had a few exhibitions and just had published a book of Kate Moss images called MISS X.
I'm doing an installation with photographer Masimo Vitali in Rome in July, commissioned by Agnes B'.
I'm directing something for the Manchester music festival - THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET - based on the novel by Salman rushdie.
I just directed a tv pilot for Fox called CANTERBURY'S LAW which has been picked up and will go in the autumn sometime.
I just made a film - improvised with 2 actors and structured around the Gumball Rally, this is in post and should appear sometime in the end of 2007.
I am writing a new script for a feature set in London which I hope to shoot low budget (on super 16mm) later this year. It's an erotic thriller.
I just had a book published called DIGITAL FILMMAKING (Fabers) which is a kind of handbook for young filmmakers.
I'm working on a performance piece for 4 musicians and 4 dancers - this is NY based and is a new experiment for me where I will arrive at a formal score and a choreography through a process of improvisation with video cameras and computer editing. I did a smaller version of this for the London film Festival with 2 pianos (Yukawa Chan duo) and a dancer. this will be ready sometime next year.
I'm set to do a one week masterclass in Australia in August - the idea is to create a feature length film in one week and then screen it to a paying public on the last night. I already did a version of this in Slovenia 2 years ago and the results are on a DVD called COMA which has just been released.
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Who I'd like to meet:
I'd like to continue to meet as many interesting people as possible. It's been my experience that the really famous ones are less interesting than the not famous ones. I'd like to meet Godard but would expect him to be rude and offhand, which would not influence the way I think about him being a genius. I can't think of any really famous people I would like to meet - I've actually met a lot of them already and...well....they're just as insecure as anyone else.
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