Background
Anne Flournoy was born in Plainfield, New Jersey and grew up in Warren County. She is the daughter of Richard C. Flournoy and Iris Fox Flournoy. Her father flew B-52s in the Second World War and was shot down over Corfu.
Anne Flournoy was born in Plainfield, New Jersey and grew up in Warren County. She is the daughter of Richard C. Flournoy and Iris Fox Flournoy. Her father flew B-52s in the Second World War and was shot down over Corfu.
She studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, then returned to the United States of America and studied at Rutgers University in New Jersey, under Leon Golub and Geoffrey Hendricks, a member of Fluxus, before graduating with an Master of Fine Arts in 1978.
On his return to the United States of America, he flew as a pilot for Trans World Airlines. Flournoy worked as a receptionist at Cinelab from 1978–1980. From 1981–1982 she worked freelance as an assistant editor on documentaries and independent feature films. In 1983, Flournoy worked in the sound department on the movie The First Time.
Her first short film, Louise Smells a Rat, was made in 1982 by recutting snippets of other peoples" films and borrowing a song.
The total budget, just over $1,000, went on lab fees. Louise Smells a Rat is "an elliptical spy story, set to a driving merengue by Johnny Ventura.
The film can be seen on YouTube. In 1985 Louise Smells a Rat was shown at the 29th London Film Festival The short film Nadja Yet was made in 1983.
lieutenant is a story of obsessive teen love, adapted from Turgenev, and starred Jenny Wright.
Nadja Yet can be seen on YouTube. The feature film How To Be Louise is a "coming-of-age story about an insecure young woman who has a lousy job, great expectations and a confused idea of what it means to be a woman". lieutenant had its United States premiere in 1990 in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, its European premiere in the Panorama at the Berlin International Film Festival, and was awarded a three star rating by the New York Post. her over-active inner voice." The series was launched on the last day of 2007, in a desperate bid to break out of a cycle of delays. humorously overactive inner voice".
The series has completed 44 episodes to date, with more in the pipeline.
The Independent included Flournoy on the their list of 10 Filmmakers To Watch in 2012.