Marco Brambilla

Marco Brambilla (30 November 1960) is an Italian-born Canadian film director and video artist.
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. The film debuted at No. 1 at the box office. and grossed $58,055,768 by the end of its box office run in North America and $159,055,768 worldwide.
"Transit", a collection of photographs Brambilla took in and around airports, was published by Booth-Clibborn Editions in 2000.
His short film "Sync" (2005) was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival 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. 
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. 
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" 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. 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". 
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. 
"Terminal" (2020) is his most recent group-show in City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand.
Based on his 2012 work Creation (Megaplex), Brambilla's Megaplex series (Civilization, Evolution, Creation) is his first virtual reality artwork, set between the birth and death of the universe and all that pop culture created during its existence. The video collage works in this series have been exhibited by and are in the collections of: Fundacio Sorigue, Spain; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey; Metronom Foundation, Barcelona, Spain; Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Spain; Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, USA. The series has also presented by: SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA; New Museum, New York, USA (as part Nuit Blanche); St. Louis Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, USA; Broad Art Museum, Lansing, USA; Santa Monica Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland; Bonniers Konnstal, Stockholm, Sweden; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; MACRO, Rome, Italy.
Awards and recognition.
Brambilla received the Tiffany Comfort Foundation Award for Film and Video in 2002 and the Colbert Foundation award in 2000.