Marco Brambilla

Marco Brambilla is an Italian-born Canadian film director and video artist.

Marco Brambilla
Occupationvideo artist
Websitewww.marcobrambilla.com

Career

Brambilla made his directorial debut with the futuristic action film Demolition Man, premiered October 8th 1993, starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock.[1] The film debuted at No. 1 at the box office.[2][3][4] and grossed $58,055,768 by the end of its box office run in North America and $159,055,768 worldwide.[5]

Transit, a collection of photographs Brambilla took in and around airports, was published by Booth-Clibborn Editions in 2000.[6]

His short film Sync (2005) was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival[7] as part of film anthology Destricted. Sync is Brambilla’s first sampled video work and is a reflection of the rising threshold to graphic sex and brutality in contemporary popular culture and film

Brambilla´s film Civilisation (Megaplex), (2008) was presented at Toronto International Film Festival and the Fondation Beyeler in Basel Switzerland. His film Evolution (Megaplex) (2010) was part of the ‘Official Selection’ at the 68th Venice International Film Festival (2011) and the Sundance Film festival (2012). In May 2011, his first major retrospective opened at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.[8]

His work is in the collections of the MOMA, New York (Wall of Death, 2001); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; SFMOMA, San Francisco, (Cyclorama, 1999); Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; the Museum of the Moving Image, New York (Power, 2010); Metronóm Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Barcelona, Spain and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C (Approach, 2000). Notable shows include New Museum, New York; Santa Monica Museum of Art (Retrospective); Seoul Biennial, Korea; Broad Art Museum; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul and Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. [9]

Brambilla has developed public art installations in collaboration with Creative Time and Art Production Fund in New York. In 2001 he was commissioned by Creative Time to create a project for the Times Square Jumbotron Screen. In 2013, as part of the Art Production Fund, Brambilla presented his site-specific video installation Anthropocene and in 2019 Nude Descending a Staircase No. 3 presented at Oculus WTC.

In March 2015 he presented the video-installation Apollo XVIII[10] at Times Square with archival footage from real NASA missions and computer-generated imagery.

In 2019 Brambilla created an art-video backdrop for the opera ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ by Claude Debussy at the Opera Vlaanderen.[11] A collaborative performance piece with artists Marina Abramović, Damien Jalet, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and Iris van Herpen. In 2020 Brambilla produced the visual intermezzos for Marina Abramović's opera The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas.[12]

In one of his latest video-installations The Four Temperaments (2020), Cate Blanchett performs four sets of distinct character types divided according to a personality classification first defined by the Greek philosopher, Galen.[13][14] Terminal (2020) is his most recent group-show in City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand.

Work
  • Creation (Megaplex) VR, 2020, single-channel high-definition video installation
  • "The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas", 2020, visual intermezzos for Marina Abramovic's opera
  • "Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)", 2019[15]
  • Nude Descending A Staircase No. 3, 2019, 3-channel high-definition video installation
  • The Master Builder, 2019, single-channel 3-D video installation
  • Lunar Atlas, 2016, multi-channel high-definition video installation
  • Crystal Observatory, 2015, high-definition video installation
  • Constellation, 2015, high-definition video projection
  • Apollo XVII, 2015,[16] 4K ultra-high definition, dual-screen video tile display in custom enclosure
  • Echo, 2014, ultra high-definition video installation
  • Anthropocene, 2013, 3-channel video installation
  • Creation (Megaplex), 2012, single-channel high-definition video installation. Collection Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
  • Civilization (Megaplex) 3-D, 2011, single-channel high-definition video installation. Collection Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
  • Evolution (Megaplex) 3-D, 2010, single-channel high-definition video installation. Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
  • Civilization (Megaplex), 2008, single-channel high-definition video installation
  • "Power", 2010, music video performed by Kanye West. Collection Museum of Moving Image, New York
  • Cathedral, 2007, single-channel high-definition video installation
  • Sync, 2005, 3-channel video installation
  • Half-Life, 2002, 3-channel video installation
  • Wall of Death, 2001, single-channel video installation. Collection Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
  • Approach, 1999, 4-channel video installation suspended in custom enclosures with ceiling mounts. Collection Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  • Getaway, 1999, single-channel video installation
  • Cyclorama, 1999, 9-channel video installation. Collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

Awards and recognition

Brambilla received the Tiffany Comfort Foundation Award for Film and Video in 2002 and the Colbert Foundation award in 2000.[17]

Filmography

Notes
  1. "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  2. Fox, David J. (October 12, 1993). "Weekend Box Office Stallone, Snipes: Action at Box Office". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  3. Fox, David J. (October 19, 1993). "Weekend Box Office : 'Demolition Man' Fends Off 'Hillbillies'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  4. Horn, John (October 15, 1993). "Demolition man' explodes into charts at no. 1". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  5. "Demolition Man – Box Office Data, Movie News, Cast Information". The Numbers (website). Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  6. "Transit / Marco Brambilla". TCDC Resource Center. Thailand Creative & Design Center. Archived from the original on 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  7. DiRosa, Joe (2006). "Marco Brambilla;– Sync". New York Artist Series. Archived from the original on 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  8. "Art review: 'Marco Brambilla: The Dark Lining' at Santa Monica Museum of Art". February 2019.
  9. "New Museum Worth". newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  10. "Apollo XVIII". Times Square Arts.
  11. Parsons, Elly (January 2018). "Marco Brambilla probes NASA for an opera of intergalactic proportions".
  12. Gareth, Harris (November 2020). "Marina Abramovic work to show on 'world's largest digital canvas' in London".
  13. Eckardt, Stephanie (September 2020). "Watch Cate Blanchett Tell You She Loves You Over and Over Again".
  14. Mizota, Sharon (September 2020). "Review: The new AR app that puts you in the room with Cate Blanchett".
  15. PARSONS, ELLY (January 2018). "Marco Brambilla probes NASA for an opera of intergalactic proportions".
  16. "Apollo XVIII".
  17. "Marco Bambrilla". Destricted. Revolver Entertainment. Archived from the original on 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
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