Sophie Ansell
Directing
Biography
Sophie Ansell is an artist/filmmaker based in London. She tells personal, political stories with a dark sense of humour. She makes films both for catharsis and with the aim to playfully disjoint dominant narratives.
Known For
I Am Always Hungry presents stories of vampiric energy exchanges on disappointing dates. Serving up connections between food and intimacy, shame and desire- it examines the monstrous feminine through the lens of appetite.
I Am Always Hungry
A masochistic girl is saved from a life of scrounging and skiving when she develops an obsessive crush on David Cameron. Totally irreverent in tone, 'Funemployed' exploits whimsical pop-video imagery to playfully present a dreamworld of job seeking far removed from the grey reality of being young, broke and directionless.
Funemployed
Desperate to make some normal friends, a lonely girl gets ready to attend a party. But she has skeletons in her cupboard, literally. The Girl in the Shed is a darkly comedic fairytale exploring modern themes of anxiety and FOMO.
Girl in the Shed
Movement through consumerist landscapes shot on location at various Peoria Superstores
Discount Dreams
A film about spit, tears and austerity. Dating apps, late-stage capitalism and broken hearts. An experiment in immediacy. A salacious piece of gossip.
Trickle-down Economics
Broken Hearts Hotel examines the potential of the ‘love hotel’ as a temporary, utopian non-space in which we can reinvent love, relationships and ourselves, and holds tender correspondences filled with love, longing, desire, sorrow and heartbreak.
Broken Hearts Hotel
A revenge Fantasy
Requiem for a Bike
An exercise in how haunted a space can feel when all that's left are our memories