Tracey Emin is hoping to make her big screen directorial debut with a film based on her life.
The controversial artist, who caused outrage when she was shortlisted for the Turner prize for her exhibit of an unmade bed, will recount her childhood in the seaside town of Margate, Kent.
Emin has previously revealed she was raped as a 13-year-old and the film is likely to be as candid about her personal life as her art works.
They include a tent embroidered with the names of every man she has slept with and a photograph of her naked in a beach hut.
The artist is at the Cannes Film Festival trying to raise finance for the movie.
She was approached to make it by Revolution Films, the company set up by 24 Hour Party People director Michael Winterbottom and his partner Andrew Eaton.
The low-budget film will be shot in nine months in and around the artist's home town.
Winterbottom is also in Cannes because 24 Hour Party People - charting the birth of Factory Records and the rise of the Manchester music scene - is in the running for the Palme d'Or prize.
