Floria SigismondiStudy of a music video director

Floria Sigismondi• I have chosen this director because she directs my favorite song

Supermassive black hole by Muse. Once watching this I began to notice that some of the other music videos in which she has directed and also similar as they all have a surreal dimension to her work.

• Floria Sigismondi is a photographer and director. Apart from her art exhibitions she is best known for directing music videos. Her trademark dilating, jittery camerawork, noticeable as early as her video for Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People", has been replicated by a great number of directors since. Her parents, Lina and Domenico Sigismondi, were opera singers. Her family, including her sister Antonella, moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada when she was two. In her childhood she became obsessed by drawing and painting. Later, from 1987 she studied painting and illustration at the Ontario College of Art, today's Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD). When she took a photography course, she became obsessed once more, and graduated with a photography major. Floria started a career as a fashion photographer. She came to directing music videos when she was approached by the production company The Revolver Film Co., and directed music videos for a number of Canadian bands. Her very innovative, but also very disturbing video works, located in sceneries she once described as "entropic underworlds inhabited by tortured souls and omnipotent beings", attracted a number of very prominent musicians. With her photography and sculpture installations she had solo exhibitions in Hamilton and Toronto, New York, Brescia, Italy, Göteborg, Sweden and London. Her photographs also were included in numerous group exhibitions, together with those of photographers like Cindy Sherman and Joel-Peter Witkin. The German art press Die Gestalten Verlag has published two monographs of her photography, "Redemption" (1999) and "Immune" (2005).

A Little Background on Floria Sigismondi

A Little Background on Floria Sigismondi

The first three music video directed by Floria were by a 1990s rock band named the tea party, in which they all see to have a surreal theme, this seems to be Floria’s style when directing music videos

The Tea Party- A certain Slant of Light

The Tea Party- Save Me The Tea Party- The River

Floria Sigismondi- Signature Style• A signature style I have noticed used by Floria through some

of her videos, is the fact that creepy stuffed animals like owls, wolfs and other furry critters appear in her videos like Supermassive - Muse (2006) has an odd collection of stuffed animals, so does some of The Tea parties videos sometimes with odd living animals in a strange inviroment like a horse in a house like from White Stripes- Blue Orchid.

The Tea Party- Save Me

Muse-Super massive Black hole

White Stripes- Blue Orchid

Floria Sigismondi- Signature Style• Another signature style I have noticed her use of surreal

fantasy environment, with a certain twist on reality in most of her videos, for example Katy Perry- E.T is a good example of this as it is very surreal and colourful the same with David Bowie- Dead man walking, although Marilyn Manson- Beautiful People was also surreal but it wasn’t as colourful as the other two.

Katy Perry-E.T Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People

David Bowie- Dead man walking

Floria Sigismondi- Signature Style

• From what I’ve presented here it would seem clear that Floria Sigismondi chosen music genre is Pop and Rock. Most of the videos I have seen of hers always seem to fit her genre. But I found a few different videos which didn’t fit her typical genres.

Some of my Favorite music videos Directed by Floria Sigismondi

– Director• 2011 "E.T.", Katy Perry• 2010 "Die By the Drop", The Dead Weather• 2009 "Let It Rain", Living Things• 2006 "Broken Boy Soldier", The Raconteurs• 2006 "Hurt", Christina Aguilera• 2006 "Red Flag", Billy Talent• 2006 "Supermassive Black Hole", Muse• 2006 "Bombs Below (version 2)", Living Things• 2005 "O' Sailor", Fiona Apple• 2005 "Bom Bom Bom", Living Things• 2005 "Blue Orchid", The White Stripes• 2004 "The End of The World", The Cure• 2004 "Talk Shows on Mute", Incubus• 2004 "I Owe...", Living Things• 2004 "Megalomaniac", Incubus• 2003 "Fighter", Christina Aguilera• 2003 "Bombs Below (version 1)", Living Things• 2003 "Anything", Martina Topley-Bird• 2003 "Obstacle 1", Interpol• 2003 "Untitled #1 (Vaka)", Sigur Rós• 2002 "John, 2/14", Shivaree• 2002 "She Said (version 2)",

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

A Little Background on Floria Sigismondi

2002 "Black Amour", Barry Adamson2001 "In My Secret Life", Leonard Cohen2000 "4 Ton Mantis", Amon Tobin2000 "I've Seen It All" (interactive version), Björk1999 "Get Up", Amel Larrieux1998 "Can't Get Loose", Barry Adamson1998 "Most High", Robert Plant & Jimmy Page1998 "Sweet Surrender", Sarah McLachlan1998 "Anything But Down", Sheryl Crow1997 "(Can't You) Trip Like I Do", Filter & The Crystal Method1997 "Makes Me Wanna Die", Tricky1997 "Dead Man Walking", David Bowie1997 "Black Eye", Fluffy1996 "Little Wonder", David Bowie1996 "Tourniquet", Marilyn Manson1996 "Anna is a Speed Freak", Pure1996 "The Beautiful People", Marilyn Manson1996 "Four Leaf Clover", Catherine1995 "Blue", Harem Scarem1994 "The Birdman (version 1)", Our Lady Peace1993 "The River", The Tea Party1993 "Save Me", The Tea Party1993 "A Certain Slant of Light", The Tea Party