www.egs.edu Mike Figgis, English film director, writer, composer, and filmmaker, lecturing about the movie Time Code, a choreographic approach of filmmaking, experimental character, a narrative without editing, the language of film, notation system, guidance, punctuation, directing, filming, acting, story, synopsis, scripts, plots, cuts, frames, cutting, improvisation, technology, mainstream, playing the trumpet, and participating in a questions and answers session. Free public open video lecture with students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, Mike Figgis 2008 Mike Figgis was born February 28, 1948 in Carlisle, England and grew up in Africa. Figgis for several years had a relationship with the actress Saffron Burrows and cast her in several films. He is cousin to Irish filmmakers Jonathan Figgis and Jason Figgis who run the award-winning film production company October Eleven Pictures in Ireland. Figgis’s early interest was in music and he played keyboards for Bryan Ferry’s first band. In 1983 he directed a theatre play, produced in Theatre Gerard-Philipe (Saint-Denis, Paris, France). This play performed with great success at Festival de Grenada and in Theatre der Welt (Munich, Germany). After working in theatre (he was a musician and performer in the experimental group People Show) he made his feature film debut with the low budget Stormy Monday in 1988. The film earned him …
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