TILDA SWINTON
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- “The honest truth about me is that it’s really a mistake me being a performer at all.” I first encountered Tilda Swinton as an actress in Derek Jarman’s films – I was particularly drawn to her roles in Edward II (1991) and The Garden (1990). She was a performer whose androgyne presence somehow embodied the sexual openness of Jarman’s communist (and communal) aesthetic. Coming of age in the Thatcher period, Tilda represented an alternative femininity: socially engaged, staunchly committed. Her persona and intelligence were very attractive to a number of filmmakers – during that time, we even discussed a science fiction film project I was developing. However, as she says herself, Tilda was never quite or just an actor; rather an artist shifting the materiality of her craft between different registers. In fact, one might argue that it is precisely because she never trained to be an actress – she graduated in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge – that she was able to approach her roles with an unstudied directness. -Introduction by Mark Nash Issue #21 Tilda Swinton - A Place Apart English / 44 Pages / 15 x 20 cm
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