Inga Lísa Middleton
Inga Lísa Middleton (born December 9, 1964) is an Icelandic photographer and film maker recently specialising in producing her photographs as cyanotype prints. She has also directed several films, such as the anthology Comedy drama Dramarama, and the short film Búi, which won the short film award at the SCHLINGEL International Film Festival. Her photographs have gone on to be shown in Iceland, Denmark, Japan and the United Kingdom.
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Inga Lísa Middleton
- Name
- Inga Lísa Middleton
- Born
- 9 December 1964
- Birthplace
- Reykjavík, Iceland
- Education
- Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College Royal College of Art
- Occupation
- Photographer, film director, screenwriter, animator
- Known for
- Experimental photography
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · Iceland
- Languages
- English
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Inga Lísa Middleton (born December 9, 1964) is an Icelandic photographer and film maker recently specialising in producing her photographs as cyanotype prints. She has also directed several films, such as the anthology Comedy drama Dramarama, and the short film Búi, which won the short film award at the SCHLINGEL International Film Festival. Her photographs have gone on to be shown in Iceland, Denmark, Japan and the United Kingdom.
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• Name — Inga Lísa Middleton • Born — 9 December 1964 • Birthplace — Reykjavík, Iceland • Education — Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College Royal College of Art • Occupation — Photographer, film director, screenwriter, animator • Known for — Experimental photography • Website — https: www.ingalisamiddleton.com/
Education
Education
Inga Lísa Middleton was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, and performed her Icelandic University Entrance Exam at Menntaskólinn við Sund. Moving from Iceland to the United Kingdom in 1985, she gained an art foundation diploma after studying a year course at Sunderland Polytechnic. Middleton then enrolled at West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, where she studied for three years and graduated with a BA in photography, film/video and animation. It was during this time where she created her first animated short film, Mommy, Daddy, Bobby and Debby, of which was sold off to the British television channel, Channel 4. After university, she went on to complete a two-year postgraduate course at the Royal College of Art in London, England. Here, in 1992, she graduated with an MA in visual communication. It would be the same year that Middleton would go on to direct and write the animated short film A Fairy Tale of Our Time. The short received critical acclaim and was later nominated for best short film at the 46th annual Cannes Film Festival.
Filmography
Filmography
• Year — Title — Director — Screenwriter — Producer — Script supervisor — Still photographer • 1992 — A Fairy Tale of Our Time • 1994 — Movie Days • 1995 — Tears of Stone • 1995 — Cold Fever • 1995 — When Dreams Come True • 1996 — Devil's Island • 1998 — Slurpinn & Co. • 2001 — Dramarama • 2005 — Galdrabókin • 2016 — Búi • 2020 — The Wish
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• Thoughts of Home (2017) – Embassy of Iceland – Copenhagen, Denmark • Thoughts of Home (2017) – National Museum of Iceland – Reykjavik, Iceland • Thoughts of Home (2018) – Embassy of Iceland – London, United Kingdom • Tip of the Iceberg & Thoughts of Home (2018) – London, United Kingdom • Phytoplankton (2019) – Photo London – London, United Kingdom • Megaptera (2021) – Photo London – London, United Kingdom • Phytoplankton (2021-23) – Embassy of Iceland – Tokyo, Japan • Icons of the Oceand (2022) – Photo London – London, United Kingdom • Solo show (2022-23) – L'Atelier D'Artistes – Paris, France • Oceans in the age of humans (2023) – Arctic Circle Japan Forum – Tokyo, Japan • Oceans in the age of humans (2023) – Akureyri Art museum – Akureyri, Iceland • Phytoplankton (2024-2025) – The Box - Plymouth Art Centre, United Kingdom • Group show (2022-23) – L'Atelier D'Artistes – Paris, France
Identity
Identity
Inga Lísa Middleton is recorded as film director, photographer, animator and script.
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1964
Inga Lísa Middleton was born in 1964 at London.
Activity and practice
Inga Lísa Middleton is recorded as having studied at Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College and Royal College of Art.
Photography
In 2017, Middleton showed off her first photograph exhibition, titled Thoughts of Home, a series of cyanotype prints documenting the wildlife and natural environments of Iceland. The project was first exhibited at the Icelandic Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavík, Iceland. One year later, Thoughts of Home, went on to be exhibited at the Icelandic Embassy in London, England, and at the annual Photo London event, held inside Somerset House, London. Middleton notes her inspiration for Thoughts of Home as being, both, her nostalgia for growing up in Iceland, while also the pairing of the beauty in nature and practical efficient undertones. 2018 also saw the reveal of Middleton's second art project, Tip of the Iceberg; cyanotype prints of icebergs, with only the iceberg's tip not submerged under water. Phytoplankton, her most recent project, was first revealed at Photo London, in 2019. Middleton was inspired to pursue this project was by through how unicellular organisms, known as phytoplankton, are being destroyed by microplastics, even though they are vital to keeping the humans alive by producing the majority of the atmosphere's oxygen. She has also gone on record as being influenced by the work of Carl Jung, specifically his book Man and His Symbols. The works has been shown at PhotoLondon 2019 and at the Icelandic Embassy in Tokyo, Japan.
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- 1.Thoughts of home, Thoughts of Iceland. inga lisa middleton.
- 2.Dramarama. Icelandic Films.
- 3.THE WINNERS OF THE SHORT FILM AWARD. SCHLINGEL International Film Festival.
- 4.Inga Lisa Middleton : contemporary Icelandic Photographer – Singulart. www.singulart.com.
- 5.Inga Lisa Middleton (1993) Curreculum Vitae, resume -https://www.icelandicfilms.info/person/nr/647 . Retrieved 2021-03-18
- 6.Bendazzi, Giannalberto Bendazzi. Animation : a world history. Volume II, The birth of a style-the three markets. 213. 2016. 978-1-317-51991-1.
- 7.Inga Lísa Middleton – Festival De Cannes. Festival De Cannes.
- 8.Thoughts of home, Thoughts of Iceland. inga lisa middleton.
- 9.Plankton and the Self News – Diatoms of North America. diatoms.org.
- 10.How much oxygen comes from the ocean?. oceanservice.noaa.gov.
- 11.Inga Lísa Middleton. Icelandic Films.
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