Tilda Swinton is one of the finest polymath’s around: she is an accomplished actress both on screen (as Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton and Emma Recchi in I Am Love) and on stage, a stunning model (starring in Pringle of Scotland’s recent campaigns) and in our A/W 04 issue of AnOther a compelling writer, editing the Document. In that issue she paid homage to personal writings, poignantly choosing contributors who “configure a hairnet of correspondence/correspondents” in her life, with whom she regularly exchanges letters – a form of “invaluable intimacy”. The content of the 7th issue Document fittingly took the structure of unedited pieces: diary excerpts, letters and notes – the sole fragments that, Swinton believes, make us who we are.
In the A/W04 issue, Tilda Swinton explained her fascination with such forms of communication.
“…I am – for sure – interested in the future and the letters we may be able to send forward…or even sideways…to one another… the evidence, the oose in our pockets, the crud under our fingernails. Inarticulacy in the face of articulacy. The mess of things; morse code between aliens; messages in bottles, the comfort of strangers…even our stranger selves…”
Among other projects, Swinton recently finished filming her role as Eva in the screen adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s 2003 novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, which will be released next year
