Sophie Winqvist Loggins has an absolute pitch for images. Her imagery spans visual excess and pure simplicity and is characterized by an outstanding sense of colour, rhythm and humour. In her work, Winqvist Loggins makes the well known uncertain and charges the insignificant with meaning. She conveys far more than is contained in the individual frames.
An extraordinary curiosity and appetite for images is channeled through her camera to a both daring and elegant aesthetics. Texture and temperature emerge from the images and moves straight into the viewer - soft fur and tense muscles in a dog´s movement, the cold when numb fingers meet with metal on a freezing winter’s night.
Sophie Winqvist Loggins is a Swedish cinematographer living in Österlen, Copenhagen and Bombay. She has also lived in France, Cuba, the USA and speaks several languages. Apart from attending the internationally renowned National Film School of Denmark, she has a university degree in art history and has studied gender and postcolonial theories. Her first feature film was a commercial Bollywood horror flick, which is something that few – if any – western women directors of photography have taken on. Her second feature was a Swedish sc-fi shot on location. The diverse background is reflected in her work on many levels. She says she uses her camera to hold on to the spirit of childhood games and fantasies. Play knows no boundaries and she moves effortlessly between documentaries, stills, commercials and feature films. Genre lacks importance when you’re inside a story.
Ylva Hillström, Curator, Moderna Museet
NARRATIVE
CLARA SOLA / Feature / Nathalie Álvarez Mesén / Hobab
PLEASURE / Feature / Ninja Thyberg / Plattform
ANIARA / Feature / Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja / Metafilm
DIORAMA / Feature / Tuva Novotny / Nordisk Film
AATMA, Feature / Suparn Verma / Wide Frame Pictures
REBECKA MARTINSSON / TV / Andrea Östlund / Yellow bird
THE STALLION / Short / Ninja Thyberg / Grand Slam Film
SENSES / Short / Zanyar Adami / Adami Film
TEENLAND / Short / Marie Grahtø / Beofilm & Super 16
THE MECHANICS / Short / Sonja Rentdorff & Masar Sohail / Metafilm
HOT CHICKS / Short / Ninja Thyberg / Silverosa Film
TOMRUM / Short / Christina Christensen / Super 16
CREATURE / Short / Malene Choi / Zentropa
COMMERCIALS
Traktor / Lego
Johan Lindeberg / BLKDNM
Tommy & Christian / Socialdemokraterna
Andrea Eckerbom / Frödinge
MUSIC VIDEOS
Silvana Imam / Zon
Seynabo Sey / Pretend
Jenny Wilson / Bad Waters
Ola / Tonight
Holbek / Hvor langt skal vi ud
FINE ART FILM
Yael Bartana / What if Women Ruled the World / Arhus 2017
Nikhil Chopra / dOCUMENTA (17)
Lea Porsager / dOCUMENTA (13)
DOCUMENTARY
Ouaga girls / Theresa Traore Dahlberg / Momento film
Democrats / Camilla Nielsson / 2nd unit DP / Upfront films
A Life in Dirty Movies / Wiktor Ericsson / Anagram Films
Liv & Horace in Europe / Olavi Linna / SVT
Left / Annika Fredriksson / Story
I väntan / Frida Kempff / Läsk AB
We are all Africans / Malene Nielsen / Upfront Film
Wild Girls / Tine Katinka Jensen / 2nd unit DP/ Bullitt Film
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Cannes Film Festival / Clara Sola / Nominated Quinzaine de Réalisateurs
Guldbagge / Clara Sola / Winner Best Cinematography / Picture / Director / Script / Sound
The Platino Awards / Clara Sola / Nominated Best Cinematography & Best First Work
Sundance Film Festival / Pleasure / Nominated World Cinema Dramatic
Festival de Cine de Lima / Clara Sola / Winner Best Cinematography
European Film Awards / Pleasure / Nominated European Discovery
Göteborg Film Festival / Pleasure / Winner FIRESCI Prize
Cannes Film Festival / Pleasure / Cannes 2020 Label
Deauville / Pleasure / Winner Jury Prize
Kerala International Film Festival / Clara Sola / Winner Golden & Silver Crow Pheasant
Cleveland International Film Festival / Clara Sola / Winner New Direction Competition
Guldbagge / Pleasure / Winner Best Actress / Best Costume Design / Best HMUA
Film Independent Spirit Awards / Pleasure / Nominated Best Director
Nashville Film Festival / Clara Sola / Winner New Directors Competition
Reykjavik International Film Festival / Clara Sola / Winner New Visions Award
Guldbagge / Aniara / Winner Best Director / Best Actress / Best Visual Effects
Sapporo International Short Film Festival / Senses / Winner Best Cinematography
Sao Paolo International Film Festival / Clara Sola / Winner New Directors Competition
Les Arcs European Film Festival / Aniara / Winner Cineuropa / Young Jury / Best Actress
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films USA / Aniara / Nominated Best Film
Trieste Science Fiction Festival / Aniara / Winner Best International Science Fiction Film
Uruguay International Film Festival / Aniara / Best International Science Fiction Film
Stockholm International Film Festival / Hot Chicks / Winner 1km film
Grammis Awards, Silvana Imam Zon / Nominated Best Music Promo
Golden Trailer Awards / Aniara / Winner Best Foreign Independent
ASFF / Jenny Wilson Bad Waters / Nominated Best Music Promo
SXSW / Teenland / Nominated Best Short
Robert Awards / Dyret / Winner Best Short
Robert Awards / Teenland / Nominated Best Short
Nordic Panorama / Dyret / Honorary Mention Best Short
Robert Awards / Jensen lives here / Nominated Best Short
Uppsala Short Film Festival / Stallion / Winner Best Cinematography
Camerimage / Odd one Out / Nominated Student Etudes Competition
DIRECTORS
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, Ninja Thyberg, Traktor, Åsa Riton, Joanna Nordahl, Yael Bartana,
Johan Lindeberg, Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja, Sheila Johansson, Marie Grathø, Anders
Abrahamsson, Tommy & Christian, Annika Fredriksson, Ali Abbasi, Oskar Gullstrand, Jens
Dahl, Nikita Rissanen, Victor Lindgren, Dorte Bengtson, Lea Porsager, Olavi Linna, Johan
Skog, Måns Herngren, Andrea Eckerbom, Camilla Nielsson, Nikhil Chopra, Ask
Hasselbalch, Zanyar Adami, Martin Strange-Hansen, Sonja Rentdorff, Masar Sohail, Suparn
Verma, Christina Christensen, Malene Choi, Pankaj Kapur, Thomas Pors, Nuka Wølk, Frida
Kempff, Birgitte Stærmose, Anurag Singh, Theresa Traore Dahlberg, Lærke Lauta, Kristina
Kvalvik, Mette Carla Albrechtsen, Lea Glob, Tine Katinka Jensen, Pontus Frankenstein,
Søren Balle, Wiktor Ericsson, Malene Nielsen, Søren Fruergaard, Benjamin Hesselholdt,
Karl Bjerre, Malina Terkelsen, Hanne Nielsen, Camilla Andersen, Jacob Bitsch, Jonas Elmer,
Sanjay Rodrigues, Philippe Rousselot ASC AFC
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Traktor, Zentropa, Plattform, Hobab, Nordisk Film, Adomeit Film, Acne, New Land, Naive,
Camp David, SF Production, Frankenstein, SVT, Bullitt film, Ja Film, Nimbus film, House
agency, Beofilm, Metafilm, Ghost FX, Silverosa Film, Wide Frame Pictures, Upfront Films,
Fladen Film, Memento Film, Entertainment One, Seasons of Love Films, Vistaar Religare
Film Fund, Anagram Films, Klassefilm, Guldbrandsen Film, Bautafilm, Social Club, Danish
Documentary, Kolla!, 7 films, Roadmap Institute, FLX
