Mark Pellington

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Mark Pellington (born March 17, 1962 in Baltimore , Maryland ) is an American director of films and music videos .

Life

Pellington father is the 1994 Alzheimer died Baltimore Colts - football player Bill Pellington. Mark Pellington grew up in Brooklandville , Maryland . He later attended the University of Virginia , where he received a degree in public speaking. His wife Jennifer Barrett Pellington died in 2004. She had worked as a costume designer on some of his films.

Career

His first work was the short film Words in your Face with KRS-One , John Leguizamo and Henry Rollins . Various music videos followed, including for Nine Inch Nails , Alice in Chains , INXS and Bon Jovi . Pellington received an MTV Video Music Award for the controversial video about Jeremy by Pearl Jam . The 1994 MTV Europe Music Award won the whale video Hobo Humpin 'Slobo Babe .

In 1995 he worked for United States of Poetry , a poem visualization, with Lou Reed , Leonard Cohen and Johnny Depp , among others .

For his first film The Long Path of Passion (OT: Going All the Way ) he was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1997 Sundance Festival . His film Arlington Road with Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges in the leading roles reached a larger audience and critical acclaim in 1999 . In 2002 the thriller The Mothman Prophecies followed , in which Richard Gere took part.

In 2003 he was alongside Michael Moore , Jack Black and a number of other critics of the then US President George W. Bush one of the jurors of the short film competition Bush in 30 seconds , in which the aim was to present in 30 seconds why Bush did not take office is suitable.

He was also active as an actor: Pellington is represented with cameos in the films Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire by his friend Cameron Crowe . He can be seen in The Mothman Prophecies as a bartender .

Works

Movies

Music videos (selection)

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Pellington, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland , USA