Sally Potter Movies and Career Information

Charlotte Sally Potter (born 19 September 1949, London) is an English film director and screenwriter. Having left school at sixteen to become a filmmaker, Potter joined the London Film-Makers’ Co-op and started making experimental short films, including Jerk (1969) and Play (1970). She later trained as a dancer and choreographer at the London School of Contemporary Dance, making both film and dance pieces, including Combines (1972), before founding Limited Dance Company with Jacky Lansley. Potter became an award-winning performance artist and theatre director, with shows including Mounting, Death and the Maiden and Berlin. In addition, she was a member of several music bands (including FIG and The Film Music Orchestra) working as a lyricist and singer. She collaborated (as a singer-songwriter) with composer Lindsay Cooper on the song cycle Oh Moscow! which was performed throughout Europe, Russia and North America in the late 1980s and commercially released. (Potter’s music work continued later when she co-composed with David Motion the soundtrack to Orlando, and produced the score for The Tango Lesson. Her most recent music work is as producer and co-composer with Fred Frith of the