Romantic poetry biography
Mike Figgis, is an academy award nominated film director, writer, and composer. Mike Figgis was born in Carlisle, England, 1948. Mike Figgis is a director who crosses boundaries, refusing to restrict his work to a singular space. He does not fit into Hollywood and rather is continually playing with film, extending and reconfiguring the linguistic structure of film. His films include, Love Live Long (2008), The 4 Dreams of Miss X (2007), Co/Ma (2004), Cold Creek Manor (2003), Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) (segment "About Time 2"), The Battle of Orgreave (2001), Hotel (2001), Timecode (2000), Miss Julie (1999), The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999), One Night Stand (1997), Flamenco Women (1997), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Browning Version (1994), Mr. Jones (1993), Liebestraum (1991), Internal Affairs (1990) and Stormy Monday (1988).Although English born, Mike Figgis grew up in Nairobi, Kenya until he was eight. He then spent the rest of his childhood in Newcastle, England. Figgis studied music in London where he played keyboard in the Gas Board, which also included a young Brian Ferry, lead singer of the critically acclaimed pop group Roxy Music. He also was a member, as a musician, of The People Show, an experimental theater company. This early experimentation in music guided his later scoring of his own films. Film making runs in Mike's family his Irish cousins are the filmmakers Jonathan Figgis and Jason Figgis who run the film production company October Eleven Pictures in Ireland. The company has won numerous awards in the industry. Also his son Arlen Figgis is a film editor and his other son Louis Figgis is a producer.
In 1980 Mike Figgis formed his own theater company, The Mike Figgis Group. This was the beginning of his shift from music to writing and directing. In 1983 Mike Figgis directed a theater play, produced in Theatre Gerard-Philipe (Saint-Denis, Paris, France). This play was critically acclaimed at Festival de Grenada and in the Theater der Welt (Munich, Germany).
In 1988 Figgis made his first feature-length film, Stormy Monday starring Tommy Lee Jones and Melanie Griffith. He then went on to direct the thriller, Internal Affairs (1990) staring Richard Gere. Five years and one film later, Figgis vented his frustration with Hollywood in the critically acclaimed, Leaving Las Vegas, telling the story of an alcoholic screenwriter (Nicholas Cage) and a Las Vegas prostitute (Elizabeth Shue). Earning four Academy Award nominations, this film affirmed Figgis’ artistic genius in both the box office and the critics corner.
Although Leaving Las Vegas was shot in 16 mm, leaving a nostalgic imprint on the film’s projection, since shooting the more recent: Timecode (2000), Figgis transitioned into digital film, in order to explore new regions of filmic time and language. Timecode takes advantage of all the opportunities technologies offers filmmakers. Using cutting edge technology Mike Figgis creates his film shots through using four cameras simultaneously within one take. This allows the presentation of simultaneous perspectives taking away the role of a singular view through dividing the screen in to four sections. Mike Figgis's interest in digital film is complimented by a disdain for the machinations of traditional film equipment. Although outdated, Figgis nevertheless finds the iron-fisted influence of a filmic era with moving cameras and pistons, as an impetus for his transition into the seamless flux of digital film-making. In 2008 Mike directed Love Live Long an experimental film focused around the Gumball 3000 rally. The film starred Daniel Lapaine and Sophie Winkleman.
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