Agnieszka Piotrowska

Agnieszka Piotrowska(?1968) is an "award-winning film-maker ... probably best known for her 2008 documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower, about women who fall in love with objects."

Piotrowska graduated from Birkbeck, University of London in 2012 with a PhD. Her PhD thesis was the basis of her 2014 book Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary. In 2015 she edited "Embodied Encounters: New Approaches to Psychoanalysis and Cinema".

She lives in London where she has been a Reader in Film Practice and Theory at University of Bedfordshire since 2012.

She made her first film, Three Men and a Cake, in 1988 with the BBC.

In 1989 she filmed Out of the Ruins, about the 1988 Armenian earthquake. Aid Armenia International, which originally funded the film, re-released it on the twentieth anniversary of the disaster in 2008. Composer Michael Nyman composed a choral work for the film.

Her 1995 Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski, about the Polish-American writer who committed suicide in New York, was nominated for the Arts Documentary Emmy in 1995. Her 1998 Showgirl Stories was less favorably received.

She directed two episodes of Channel 4's Cutting Edge, Love Hurts (1999), about domestic violence, and Trapped By My Twin (2007), about twin sisters who are constantly together.

From 1999 to 2005 she made a number of films through her own production company Rivercourt Productions. Rivercourt produced the series Self Portrait for National Geographic as well as the partially animated series Running for Freedom, including the episode about Muslim/Jewish Roxanna.

Rivercourt's 2002 documentary Poker Club, shown on Channel 4 in their Cutting Edge series, was heavily criticised by Victoria Coren in her Poker memoir For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker.

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