FKA Twigs

FKA Twigs

Birth : 1988-01-16, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

History

Tahliah Debrett Barnett (born 16 January 1988), known professionally as FKA twigs, is an English singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, director and actor. Her father is Jamaican, and her mother is English, who is of part Spanish descent. Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England she became a backup dancer after moving to London when she was 17 years old. 

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FKA Twigs
FKA Twigs

Movies

The Crow
Shelly Webster
Soulmates Eric Draven and Shelly Webster are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
PLAYSCAPE
Director
In honour of the seven finalists of the 2022 International Woolmark Prize, FKA twigs directs and stars in PLAYSCAPE, a short film celebrating the art of “play”. FKA twigs’ collective ‘AVANT GARDEN’ launches its new era in this piece for the 2022 International Woolmark Prize. FKA twigs developed an exploration of play within creativity, a method in which the purest expression has a space to be birthed and happy accidents are embraced and elevated. PLAYSCAPE, was inspired by Noguchi’s vision of play as a creative catalyst. Featuring and directed by English singer-songwriter and dancer FKA twigs, the film merges influence from fashion, art, dance, and music. Choreographed by classically trained dancer Juliano Nunes, the film opens with an empty gallery of Noguchi’s play sculptures, which becomes populated by a diverse ensemble cast of characters.
PLAYSCAPE
In honour of the seven finalists of the 2022 International Woolmark Prize, FKA twigs directs and stars in PLAYSCAPE, a short film celebrating the art of “play”. FKA twigs’ collective ‘AVANT GARDEN’ launches its new era in this piece for the 2022 International Woolmark Prize. FKA twigs developed an exploration of play within creativity, a method in which the purest expression has a space to be birthed and happy accidents are embraced and elevated. PLAYSCAPE, was inspired by Noguchi’s vision of play as a creative catalyst. Featuring and directed by English singer-songwriter and dancer FKA twigs, the film merges influence from fashion, art, dance, and music. Choreographed by classically trained dancer Juliano Nunes, the film opens with an empty gallery of Noguchi’s play sculptures, which becomes populated by a diverse ensemble cast of characters.
Madame X Presents: Madame Xtra Q&A
Self
A follow-up special to Madonna's recently released concert documentary film MADAME X. This special features questions from very special guests Ariana Grande, Amy Schumer, Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Jimmy Fallon, Kim Kardashian, Snoop Dog, and more.
Dua Lipa: Studio 2054
Dua Lipa's kaleidoscopic rocket fuelled journey through time, space, mirrorballs, roller discos, bucket hats, belting beats, throbbing basslines and an absolute slam dunk of the best of times in global club culture throughout the decades.
Sad Day
Producer
Short film about a girl that enters a noodle shop
Sad Day
FKA Twigs
Short film about a girl that enters a noodle shop
Bring Down The Walls
Thanks
Bring Down The Walls looks at the US prison industrial complex through the lens of house music and nightlife. The connection comes from the years in which Phil Collins worked with men incarcerated at Sing Sing, a maximum-security prison in upstate New York.
Honey Boy
Shy Girl
The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.
Practice
Herself
An intimate look at FKA twigs' year of pole-performance training for her "Cellophane" music video - the early mornings, late nights, physical pain and grueling perfectionism it took to make her creative vision a reality.
Cellophane
Music
FKA Twigs performs in the music video "Cellophane" from the single recorded for Young Turks Records. The music video opens with FKA Twigs walking through a curtain onto a stage where she walks in extreme high heels. She dances on a pole. Visual effects create a surreal effect of falling while she dances.
Cellophane
dancer
FKA Twigs performs in the music video "Cellophane" from the single recorded for Young Turks Records. The music video opens with FKA Twigs walking through a curtain onto a stage where she walks in extreme high heels. She dances on a pole. Visual effects create a surreal effect of falling while she dances.
AWGE DVD: Volume 3
Herself
Third installment of the documentary like series from the A$AP Rocky founded creative agency AWGE
Good Time
Thanks
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Soundtrack 7
Director
Shot on location for the Manchester International Festival, the film shows the work twigs created and filmed one per day during her week-long residency last year. Conceptualized as an abstract autobiographical piece, Soundtrack 7 includes performances set to “How’s That”, “Ultraviolet,” and “Good to Love” among others, and is bound together by a striking, repeated recitation of Thomas Wyatt’s poem “I Find No Peace” (an excerpt from which opened twigs’ critically acclaimed LP1). Emphasizing the grit and physicality of dance, twigs describes her latest project as “flesh, sweat, feeling, muscle, and a live movement, no air brushing, no frills.” -BAMCinematek
M3LL155X
Self
Electro-R&B experimentalist FKA twigs channels her inner David Lynch in a 16-minute short film featuring four tracks from her new EP, M3LL155X. The twigs-directed videos for “Figure 8,” “I’m Your Doll,” “In Time” and “Glass & Patron” are woven into an eye-popping exploration of what a statement calls “the process of feeling pregnant with pain, birthing creativity and liberation.”
M3LL155X
Music
Electro-R&B experimentalist FKA twigs channels her inner David Lynch in a 16-minute short film featuring four tracks from her new EP, M3LL155X. The twigs-directed videos for “Figure 8,” “I’m Your Doll,” “In Time” and “Glass & Patron” are woven into an eye-popping exploration of what a statement calls “the process of feeling pregnant with pain, birthing creativity and liberation.”
M3LL155X
Writer
Electro-R&B experimentalist FKA twigs channels her inner David Lynch in a 16-minute short film featuring four tracks from her new EP, M3LL155X. The twigs-directed videos for “Figure 8,” “I’m Your Doll,” “In Time” and “Glass & Patron” are woven into an eye-popping exploration of what a statement calls “the process of feeling pregnant with pain, birthing creativity and liberation.”
M3LL155X
Director
Electro-R&B experimentalist FKA twigs channels her inner David Lynch in a 16-minute short film featuring four tracks from her new EP, M3LL155X. The twigs-directed videos for “Figure 8,” “I’m Your Doll,” “In Time” and “Glass & Patron” are woven into an eye-popping exploration of what a statement calls “the process of feeling pregnant with pain, birthing creativity and liberation.”
Brighton Beach
M
A young doctor faces off against a local crime boss, both operating between the blurry lines of the law in the multi-billion dollar industry of Medicare fraud.