Meet Martha Fiennes
Martha shooting ‘Onegin’ movie on location, St Petersburg, Russia
Meet Martha Fiennes
After graduating film school Fiennes started out directing music videos for artistes from Al Green to Boy George. She was later sought by the TV commercials industry going on to garner several TV advertising directing awards.
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Her first feature film, the acclaimed Russian-set period movie Onegin - starring Liv Tyler and Ralph Fiennes won Martha the Tokyo Film Festival; the London Critics Award for Best Newcomer and a BAFTA nomination for Best British Film.
Her second movie, Chromophobia attracted a stellar cast including Penelope Cruz, Damian Lewis, Kristen Scott Thomas, Harriet Walter, Ian Holm and Rhys Ifans. Written and directed by Fiennes - and was applauded for its contemporary style and ‘icy and superb script’. Chromophobia closed the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
Fiennes has been an active member of the UK film industry having served on several BAFTA juries. She has headed film juries at the Tblisi Film Festival in Georgia and Haifa Film Festival, Israel. In 2017 Fiennes received a Woman of Excellence Award presented to her at the House of Lords.
Fiennes’ recent work is a majestic, AI-generative digital moving-image artwork titled ‘Yugen’ which features the actor Salma Hayek Pinault. The work is comprised of multiple layers of highly crafted film/action sequences and backgrounds which utilise bespoke AI system to instruct a continuous moving-image experience. The work is accompanied by an original audio score composed by Magnus Fiennes. The result is a mesmeric work which neither loops or repeats.
Fiennes used the same ‘hybrid’ media system in her earlier work Nativity (2011). Both employ pioneering forms of generative digital technologies to produce majestic works which extend the possibilities of film as a medium and art as an experience.
Fiennes’ artworks have exhibited in a number of high profile showcases including the Venice Biennale; Christie’s Art+Tech Summit, New York; National Gallery, London; V&A London; LACMA / Frieze Los Angeles; The Serpentine Gallery, London; The Science Museum London IMAX, The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg and at Art Dubai ’22. Yugen was described by Vogue Arabia as ‘best in show’.