How groundbreaking, genre-bending collage artist Marco Brambilla traded the Hollywood filmmaking machine for artistic freedom and found himself feted by the pop culture he satirizes.
Marco Brambilla was a middling commercial and TV director until 1993, when he finally got a break as director of the Sylvester Stallone action flick Demolition Man. After that, he quit.
It wasn't something Sly said. "I’m a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative," Brambilla tells Fast Company.
So, buoyed by savings, Brambilla dove back into his experimental roots. He began playing with film montages, compositing, and genre mash-ups, marrying cinematic technology, photographic, and painting concepts. "Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture’s constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology,...
Marco Brambilla was a middling commercial and TV director until 1993, when he finally got a break as director of the Sylvester Stallone action flick Demolition Man. After that, he quit.
It wasn't something Sly said. "I’m a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative," Brambilla tells Fast Company.
So, buoyed by savings, Brambilla dove back into his experimental roots. He began playing with film montages, compositing, and genre mash-ups, marrying cinematic technology, photographic, and painting concepts. "Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture’s constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology,...
- 7/1/2011
- by Susan Karlin
- Fast Company
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