Sospeso presents the American premiere of Nicholas Roeg's latest film, The Sound of Claudia Schiffer, a multimedia collaboration with celebrated electronic composer Adrian Utley of Portishead, on Thursday and Friday, March 14 and 15, 2002, at the Miller Theater in New York.

When he made his directorial debut in 1968, Nicolas Roeg was already a 21-year veteran of the British film industry, starting out in 1947 as an editing apprentice and working his way up to cinematographer twelve years later. He first came to attention as part of the second unit on David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, with Roger Corman's Masque of the Red Death two years later containing his first really distinctive solo work. He went on to photograph films for such distinguished directors as François Truffaut (Fahrenheit 451, 1966), John Schlesinger (Far From the Madding Crowd, 1967) and Richard Lester (Petulia, 1967) before his sensational directorial debut in 1968. Co-directed with writer (and painter) Donald Cammell, Performance was intended to be a simple-minded star vehicle for Mick Jagger, and Warner Brothers was so horrified when they saw the final multi-layered kaleidoscope of sex, violence and questions of identity that they delayed its release for two years.

Roeg went to Australia for his solo debut as director,Walkabout (1970), one of the great films of that decade, which was also his last film as cinematographer.  Throughout the next decade he produced a world-class body of work—Don't Look Now (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), and Bad Timing (1980)—that revealed his uniquely off-kilter view of the world, expressed through fragmented, dislocated images and a highly original yet strangely accessible approach to narrative.

From Michael Brooke, on the Internet Movie Database.