Sophie Auster

A year later, at the age of nine, she was cast in the Agnieszka Holland film Washington Square starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith and Ben Chaplin.

[citation needed] As a teenager, Auster performed jazz standards at local New York clubs and was a member of an off-Broadway troupe at The Gene Frankel Theater in downtown Manhattan.

Using her writer father, Paul Auster's, early translations of French Surrealist poets, along with two original lyrics written by Auster herself, the poetic lines of Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, Philippe Soupault and Guillaume Apollinaire became songs set to music by Hearst and Camp.

It was never intended for wide public consumption, but when a family friend heard the album, she was so impressed that she offered to release it on the French label Naïve Records.

Introduced by fellow songwriter, Nicole Atkins, Sophie packed her bags and left to record her album with Johansson in Malmo, Sweden.

Secluded in the Swedish countryside, Johansson and Auster, alongside musician and producer assistant, Martin Gjerstadd worked steadily for months to record and mix the album.

After shopping the completed album around for over a year to different labels, Sophie was then signed to a recording and publishing contract with BMG Music worldwide, and Next Time was released in April 2019.

The video, premiered on V Magazine's website in November 2019, is directed by Auster's photographer husband, Spencer Ostrander, and cinematographer, Theodore King.