Floria Sigismondi (born 1965 in Pescara, Italy) is a Canadian-naturalized photographer and director.
Apart from her art exhibitions, she is best known for directing music videos for Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Björk, The Cure, Christina Aguilera, The White Stripes, Sigur Rós, Muse, Interpol, Incubus, and having directed some commercials for Old Navy, MAC, Adidas and Eaton's. Her trademark dilating, jittery camerawork, noticeable as early as her ...
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Floria Sigismondi (born 1965 in Pescara, Italy) is a Canadian-naturalized photographer and director.
Apart from her art exhibitions, she is best known for directing music videos for Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Björk, The Cure, Christina Aguilera, The White Stripes, Sigur Rós, Muse, Interpol, Incubus, and having directed some commercials for Old Navy, MAC, Adidas and Eaton's. Her trademark dilating, jittery camerawork, noticeable as early as her video for 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...
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