She's killed Fiona Apple, morphed Christina Aguilera into a cotton candy-haired moth queen and turned Jack White Satanic, and you can only hope Floria Sigismondi is just getting started. Born the daughter of opera singer parents in Pescara, Italy, this director/photographer/sculptor extraordinaire is perhaps best known for her off-kilter camerawork and macabre environments. Sigismondi began her career as a fashion photographer before moving into music video work, directing clips for several Canadian bands, including the Tea Party, Victor, I Mother Earth and 13 Engines. Directing two videos for Marilyn Manson in 1996 launched a long line of intrigued musicians, and the past decade has generated work with David Bowie, Sigur Rós, Interpol, the White Stripes, Björk, the Cure, Leonard Cohen, Muse, Living Things, Our Lady Peace, Incubus and the Raconteurs, among others. Her videos have picked up awards at the MTV European Awards, the New York Underground Film Festival, the Juno Awards, the Music Video Production Company Awards and the Advertising and Design Awards, as well as received nominations from the British Music Video Awards and the MTV Music Video Awards. Her art has had numerous solo exhibitions internationally, and Die Gestalten Verlag has published two books of her photography. Sigismondi also has plans to expand into feature film, the first of which, based on the '70s all-girl rock 'n' roll band the Runaways, she is both writing and directing. Take a visual tour through my collection of favorite Sigismondi-helmed music videos below and see if you're as addicted to her creations as I am!
Above: Children play on a nuclear snow-covered schoolyard in Sigur Rós' "Untitled #1," Meg White portrays a living doll in the White Stripes' "Blue Orchid," religion and war merge in Living Things' "Bombs Below."
Sigur Rós - "Untitled #1"
Fiona Apple - "O' Sailor"
Christina Aguilera - "Fighter"
Christina Aguilera - "Hurt"
Martina Topley-Bird - "Anything"
The White Stripes - "Blue Orchid"
Above: Jack White plays the devil in "Blue Orchid," an expressionless family experience an unfulfilling suburbia in Leonard Cohen's "In My Secret Life," Christina Aguilera finds strength among the moths in "Fighter."
Amon Tobin - "Four Ton Mantis"
Leonard Cohen - "In My Secret Life"
Living Things -"I Owe"
Living Things - "Bom Bom Bom"
The Cure - "The End of the World"
Interpol - "Obstacle 1"
Above: A colorful yet dark circus invades Living Things' "Bom Bom Bom," a shimmering Martina Topley-Bird loses herself in "Anything," a creepy classroom is the scene of Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People."
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She's killed Fiona Apple, morphed Christina Aguilera into a cotton candy-haired moth queen and turned Jack White Satanic, and you can only hope Floria Sigismondi is just getting started. Born the daughter of opera singer parents in Pescara, Italy, this director/photographer/sculptor extraordinaire is perhaps best known for her off-kilter camerawork and macabre environments. Sigismondi began her career as a fashion photographer before moving into music video work, directing clips for several Canadian bands, including the Tea Party, Victor, I Mother Earth and 13 Engines. Directing two videos for Marilyn Manson in 1996 launched a long line of intrigued musicians, and the past decade has generated work with David Bowie, Sigur Rós, Interpol, the White Stripes, Björk, the Cure, Leonard Cohen, Muse, Living Things, Our Lady Peace, Incubus and the Raconteurs, among others. Her videos have picked up awards at the MTV European Awards, the New York Underground Film Festival, the Juno Awards, the Music Video Production Company Awards and the Advertising and Design Awards, as well as received nominations from the British Music Video Awards and the MTV Music Video Awards. Her art has had numerous solo exhibitions internationally, and Die Gestalten Verlag has published two books of her photography. Sigismondi also has plans to expand into feature film, the first of which, based on the '70s all-girl rock 'n' roll band the Runaways, she is both writing and directing. Take a visual tour through my collection of favorite Sigismondi-helmed music videos below and see if you're as addicted to her creations as I am!
