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...Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways is set in the era when the verb to feather expanded beyond things done with oars and nests to include hair. It's about the formation in 1975 of Joan Jett's first band, the Runaways - a rigorous selection process apparently based largely on who might look good standing where - and follows the girl group's rise to reasonable fame and not particularly dramatic dissolution in 1979, which was more fractious fizzle than downward spiral...
Christina Aguilera "Hurt" Dir. Francis Sigismondi The first thirty seconds of Christina Aguilera’s “Hurt,” in which black and white circus footage rolls over an ominous violin piece, may be the most disorienting thing a pop diva has done to video viewers since Britney’s spandex-in-space adventures of the late twentieth century. That is, of course, except for the remaining four minutes of the video. “Hurt,” which centers around a circus performer’s mournful memories of her deceased father, frames...
...Around this time a new wave of video wizards appeared on the scene: there was Hype Williams, who directed videos by Missy Elliott ("The Rain - Supa Dupa Fly") and Mary J. Blige ("Everything"). There was the elegantly creepy work of Floria Sigismondi who directed videos for shock-rocker Marilyn Manson (one featured him shaving his own armpit) and trip-hopper Tricky. And there was also prankster auteur Spike Jonze, the man behind Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet" (a video that explodes into a technicolor musical), the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" (a take-off on '70s TV cop shows...
...Sigismondi, 31, who was born in Italy and lives in Canada, says she never aims to shock, though she usually strikes a nerve: "I try and look for beauty in darkness, to make some kind of harmony in the images." In her video for shock-rocker Manson's Tourniquet, we are treated to the sight of Manson shaving his own armpit; in Sigismondi's clip for The Beautiful People, we see writhing worms, rows of stomping fascistic boots and Manson's mouth pushed open by some cruel dental device. The songs themselves are dumb and brutal, but the videos have...
...course, Hollywood is calling. In the past few years other video directors have made the jump from MTV to feature films; David Fincher, who created videos for Madonna, went on to direct Seven and the forthcoming thriller The Game. Sigismondi says movie scripts have been "flooding in," but that she hasn't chosen a project. Williams is developing a live-action Fat Albert feature for Bill Cosby. Hunter has signed to direct a film for HBO, and Glazer is working on the movie Gangsta Number One. But none of them have yet decided to leave videos for movies permanently. Says...