Method in madness

John Maybury was a fellow graduate of the Derek Jarman school of filmmaking, and it was in those heady, early days that he first became aware of Tilda Swinton. The pair worked closely on two challengi

The very first moment we see Tilda Swinton in the history of cinema is just off-screen in Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio, looking like any one of a rabble of young men who are watching a fist fight and che

The Seattle-based filmmaker and artist Lynn Hershman Leeson managed to snag Tilda Swinton for a vital but important role in her 1997 feature, Conceiving Ada, about Victorian-era mathmatician, Ada Love

In 2023, speaking to The Guardian about the making of Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, Tilda Swinton described her relationship with the filmmaker as, “The OG working relationship. It set the cours

Call her a chameleon, call her a shape-shifter, call her the heir apparent to transformative performers from Lon Chaney to David Bowie: since the start of her screen career Tilda Swinton has taken joy

Tilda Swinton was 12 years old when David Bowie released the album ‘Aladdin Sane’, his follow-up to the monumental ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’. When Swinton saw the