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The Souvenir

Snag a copy of the first ever book to be written about British filmmaker Joanna Hogg and her process.

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About Joanna Hogg and The Souvenir

Joanna Hogg’s exquisite new film, The Souvenir, was the talk of Sundance, picking up the World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. Almost overnight, Hogg transformed into an international art house sensation.

Set in the 1980s, The Souvenir tells the story of a film student who gets into a difficult romantic relationship that simultaneously feeds her creativity and shakes her self-confidence. Based on Hogg’s personal experiences as a film student, it even features an exact replica of the apartment she lived in at the time.

The Souvenir is Hogg’s first coming-of-age story, and her first film to be set over months instead of days — a unique challenge given Hogg’s process involves shooting in order, without a conventional script, with the actors improvising on camera.

Hogg specialises in scathing and unsettling depictions of the British upper middle class. Her first three features, Unrelated, Archipelago, and Exhibition will make you squirm uncomfortably in your seat. They’ll also leave you marvelling at Hogg’s meticulous blocking, sound design, and keen observations about human behaviour. Where Unrelated and Archipelago were realist dramas about the pressures of family vacations in tight quarters, Exhibition and The Souvenir are more experimental and dreamlike, exploring the creative process and its links to memory.

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What you’ll discover and learn

Get the trademark Seventh Row 360-degree view of Hogg’s filmmaking process on The Souvenir. Read interviews with all of Hogg’s key behind the lens collaborators, several of whom have been working with her since her first film, Unrelated.

Tour of Memories covers five parts

Part One: Joanna Hogg’s oeuvre in context
Uncover the themes, filmmaking strategies, and preoccupations that span all of Hogg’s films.

Part Two: An introduction to the films of Joanna Hogg
Discover who Hogg is, how her process works, and how she builds great scenes through an in-depth look at some of her best.

Part Three: Framing The Souvenir
Get to know the film through an interview with Joanna Hogg and a pair of essays analysing it

Part Four: In production: Making The Souvenir
Discover how Hogg makes her films on set through interviews with cinematographer David Raedeker, costume designer Grace Snell, and production designer Stéphane Collonge

Part Five: Post-production: Sound and Picture Edit
Learn about how Hogg turns her raw footage into a precise final product through interviews with edtior Helle Le Fevre and sound designer Jovan Ajder — both of whom have worked with Hogg on all of her films.

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Praise for Tour of Memories

Seventh Row’s “360 approach to analyzing one film from various angles allows for a deeper analysis than what you often see in the scattershot approach that most websites take to looking at a film.”
Rogerebert.com
Editors
“Seventh Row’s Tour of Memories [is] an absorbing and very worthwhile read.
Vasiliki Katsarou
Film Critic, Directed By Women
Smith and Heeney study The Souvenir’s place in Hogg’s oeuvre, and in doing so, heighten one’s understanding of the film and its meaning. The Souvenir is a dense, complex film—one that requires an analysis like Tour of Memories.
Christopher Schobert
The Film Stage

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In this episode, we discuss key insights from the book on Hogg’s process, the film’s themes, and the cinematic techniques used to tell the story.

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Read excerpts from the book, including in-depth analyses of our favourite scenes from The Souvenir and essays on the film

Sound designer Jovan Ajder talks <em>The Souvenir</em>
Interview: Joanna Hogg on <em>The Souvenir</em>
Helle Le Fevre discusses editing <em>The Souvenir</em>
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Snag our ebook, and become an expert on The Souvenir and Hogg’s filmmaking process.

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