Floria Sigismondi

Floria Sigismondi

Floria Sigismondi (* 1965 in Pescara , Italy ) is an Italian-Canadian photographer and director . In addition to her art exhibitions , she is also known as a director of music videos for Christina Aguilera , David Bowie , Sheryl Crow , The Cure , Björk , Marilyn Manson , Muse and P! Nk , among others .

Life

Sigismondi's parents were opera singers and her family moved to Hamilton , Ontario , Canada when Floria Sigismondi was two years old. In her childhood she devoted herself to painting and drawing.

From 1987 she studied painting and illustration at the Ontario School of Art . When she took a photography course as part of her studies, she found a new obsession and completed her degree in photography.

She started her career as a fashion photographer. The production company Revolver Films invited her to direct music videos , and so she did so for a number of well-known singers and bands. She once described her very innovative, but also very frightening video works, in scenes, as “entropic underworlds, inhabited by tormented souls and almighty beings”.

Her photographs and sculptures have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Hamilton and Toronto ( Canada ), New York ( USA ), Brescia ( Italy ), Gothenburg ( Sweden ), and London ( England ). Her photographs have been shown in numerous group exhibitions together with those of photographers such as Cindy Sherman and Joel-Peter Witkin .

Sigismondi lives in Toronto and New York .

Filmography

• 2006: Postmortem Bliss (short film)
• 2010: The Runaways
• 2012: Leaning Towards Solace (short film)
• 2014: Hemlock Grove (TV series, episode 2x04)
• 2016: Marvel's Daredevil (TV series, episode 2x05)
• 2017: The Handmaid's Tale ( The Handmaid's Tale , TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2017: American Gods (TV series, episode 1x08)
• 2020: The Possessed (The Turning)

Music videos (selection)

• 1996: Beautiful People , Marilyn Manson
• 1996: Tourniquet , Marilyn Manson
• 1996: Little Wonder , David Bowie
• 1997: Dead Man Walking , David Bowie
• 1997: Makes Me Wanna Die , Tricky
• 1997: Can You Trip Like I Do , Filter & The Crystal Method
• 1998: Most High , Robert Plant and Jimmy Page
• 1998: Can't Get Loose , Barry Adamson
• 1999: Get Up , Amel Larrieux
• 2000: I Have Seen It All (interactive version), Björk
• 2000: 4 tone Mantis , Amon Tobin
• 2001: In My Secret Life , Leonard Cohen
• 2002: Black Amour , Barry Adamson
• 2002: She Said , Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
• 2002: John, 2/14 , Shivaree
• 2003: Untitled , Sigur Rós
• 2003: Obstacle 1 , Interpol
• 2003: Anything , Martina Topley-Bird
• 2003: Bombs Below , Living Things
• 2003: Fighter , Christina Aguilera
• 2003: Megalomaniac , Incubus
• 2004: Talk Shows on Mute , Incubus
• 2004: The End of The World , The Cure
• 2005: Blue Orchid , The White Stripes
• 2005: O'Sailor , Fiona Apple
• 2006: Supermassive Black Hole , Muse
• 2006: Hurt , Christina Aguilera
• 2006: Broken Boy Soldier , The Raconteurs
• 2011: ET , Katy Perry
• 2012: Try , P! Nk
• 2013: The Stars (Are Out Tonight) , David Bowie
• 2013: Mirrors , Justin Timberlake
• 2013: The Next Day , David Bowie
• 2016: Sledgehammer , Rihanna
• 2019: Swan Song , Dua Lipa

Prices (selection)

• 1997: MTV Music Video Awards, USA - Nomination for Best Rock Video: "Beautiful People" ( Marilyn Manson )
• 1998: British Music Video Awards, UK - Nomination for Best Video: "Little Wonder" ( David Bowie )
• 1999: German Kodak Photobook Award, for your book Redemption
• 2003: Advertising and Design Awards, Toronto, Canada - Special Merit Award for Music Video, for "Fighter" ( Christina Aguilera )
• 2003: New York Underground Film Festival - Audio / Visual Award, for "()" ( Sigur Rós )
• 2003: MTV European Awards - Best International Video Award, for "()" ( Sigur Rós )
• 2004: Juno Awards , Canada - Best Music Video, for "Fighter" ( Christina Aguilera )

Web links

Commons : Floria Sigismondi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Floria Sigismondi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Floria Sigismondi at Discogs (English)