Caprice by Joanna Hogg

CAPRICE a film by JOANNA HOGG. 1986, UK, 26 min. Tilda Swinton tumbles through a fashion magazine in Hoggs mod, ecstatic thesis film. Caprice is an early collaboration between Hogg and Tilda Swinton, who appears in The Souvenir alongside her daughter (and Hoggs goddaughter), Honor Swinton Byrne. Per AnOther Magazine, Hogg and Swinton first bonded as students at a mutually loathed private school and reconnected while Hogg was attending the National Film and Television School. In Caprice, Swinton plays the earnest Lucky, who is magically drawn into the pages of her favorite fashion magazine. As she moves through the different spreads like Dorothy in Oza Technicolor makeover montage, a New Wave dance numberLucky is asked to define herself outside of the images of models shes been sold.