“This is the oldest skull I have,” the Swiss artist H.R. Giger says, showing off this prized possession the breezy way you might a set of Fiestaware. He lifts the skull and regards it. But then his speech is breathy and halting, tender with age, as he elaborates: His father gave him the skull when Giger was six. Later, Giger dragged it in the street behind him, tied to a string, to teach himself not to fear death.
Among the many curious things about this small moment in Belinda Sallin's Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World is how humble that skull looks beside Giger's own work, those fleshily mechanical surrealist paintings, sculptures, and tchotchkes stacked and packed all over his home, his museum, and the deepest fear-centers of your brain.
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Among the many curious things about this small moment in Belinda Sallin's Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World is how humble that skull looks beside Giger's own work, those fleshily mechanical surrealist paintings, sculptures, and tchotchkes stacked and packed all over his home, his museum, and the deepest fear-centers of your brain.
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- 5/15/2015
- Village Voice
Viewers can step into the brilliant world of H.R. Giger and learn about the late legend in Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World. The intimate documentary hits select theaters tomorrow from Icarus Films, and we have release details and two clips from the movie.
Press Release -- "Surrealist artist H. R. Giger (1940-2014) terrified audiences with his Oscar-winning monsters in Ridley Scott's Alien. Sci-fi, horror, music, album covers, tattoos and fetish art have been influenced by his dark, intricate paintings and sculptures depicting birth, death and sex.
Both a mesmerizing introduction to Giger's oeuvre and a must-see for Giger devotees, Belinda Sallin's definitive documentary Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World shares the intimate last years of the artist's life and reveals how deeply he resided within his own artistic visions.
Behind the shuttered windows and ivy-covered walls of his residence in Zurich, Switzerland, Dark Star brings viewers into Giger's...
Press Release -- "Surrealist artist H. R. Giger (1940-2014) terrified audiences with his Oscar-winning monsters in Ridley Scott's Alien. Sci-fi, horror, music, album covers, tattoos and fetish art have been influenced by his dark, intricate paintings and sculptures depicting birth, death and sex.
Both a mesmerizing introduction to Giger's oeuvre and a must-see for Giger devotees, Belinda Sallin's definitive documentary Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World shares the intimate last years of the artist's life and reveals how deeply he resided within his own artistic visions.
Behind the shuttered windows and ivy-covered walls of his residence in Zurich, Switzerland, Dark Star brings viewers into Giger's...
- 5/14/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Hans Ruedi Giger, the artist known for his nightmarish vision, passed away in 2014 at the age of 74. Luckily for us, Swiss documentarian Belinda Sallin has made a comprehensive, yet intimate portrayal of the artist just before his passing. It was his Oscar winning work in Ridley Scott's seminal sci-fi movie Alien -- the facehugger, the phallic, acid bleeding creatures, the skeletal inner sanctums of the creatures, based on his paintings and sketches from his book Necronomicon (1976) -- that really put his often obscene dreamscapes of birth, death and sex into the mainstream consciousness. With such dark imaginations, you'd expect a tortured soul. But as Sallin invites us into Giger's home in Zürich, Switzerland, you soon find out the opposite is true. Mild mannered and soft...
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- 5/14/2015
- Screen Anarchy
By Todd Garbarini
“The dark corners of the human mind are the deepest dark, I believe, of anything in the universe,” once said author, playwright, producer, and director Arch Oboler in describing his infamous radio plays of the 1930s and 1940s which aired on NBC under the title of Lights Out! It is no secret that some of the world's most well-known artists, everyone from author Edgar Allan Poe to film director Dario Argento, have channeled nightmarish experiences from their childhood and woven them into the very fabric of their stories and films. The late great surrealist Swiss artist Hans Rudolf Giger, known internationally as H.R. Giger, also sublimated his fears and frustrations into startling and often horrific imagery that coupled man with machinery as he explored the triptych of existence: birth, life, and death. Audiences are taken behind the scenes of this master painter in the elegiac final days...
“The dark corners of the human mind are the deepest dark, I believe, of anything in the universe,” once said author, playwright, producer, and director Arch Oboler in describing his infamous radio plays of the 1930s and 1940s which aired on NBC under the title of Lights Out! It is no secret that some of the world's most well-known artists, everyone from author Edgar Allan Poe to film director Dario Argento, have channeled nightmarish experiences from their childhood and woven them into the very fabric of their stories and films. The late great surrealist Swiss artist Hans Rudolf Giger, known internationally as H.R. Giger, also sublimated his fears and frustrations into startling and often horrific imagery that coupled man with machinery as he explored the triptych of existence: birth, life, and death. Audiences are taken behind the scenes of this master painter in the elegiac final days...
- 5/14/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
May releases from Diamond Select Toys include Ghostbusters, Predator, and a zombified Jay and Silent Bob. Also in our latest round-up: 20 Seconds to Live, a Captain America vs. Iron Man infographic, and new Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World stills.
Diamond Select Toys: Press Release -- "The new Previews catalog is in comic shops now, and inside is a litany of new products coming your way from Diamond Select Toys! Due out this fall, the new offerings include items from the Batman Classic TV Series, Batman The Animated Series, Gotham, Ghostbusters, Jay and Silent Bob, Marvel Select, Predator, Pulp Fiction, Star Trek, Universal Monsters and more! It’s the best of all worlds! Read on for more info, and pre-order today through your local comic shop, your favorite online retailer, or diamondselecttoys.com! Find your nearest comic shop at comicshoplocator.com!
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Diamond Select Toys: Press Release -- "The new Previews catalog is in comic shops now, and inside is a litany of new products coming your way from Diamond Select Toys! Due out this fall, the new offerings include items from the Batman Classic TV Series, Batman The Animated Series, Gotham, Ghostbusters, Jay and Silent Bob, Marvel Select, Predator, Pulp Fiction, Star Trek, Universal Monsters and more! It’s the best of all worlds! Read on for more info, and pre-order today through your local comic shop, your favorite online retailer, or diamondselecttoys.com! Find your nearest comic shop at comicshoplocator.com!
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- 5/11/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Dark Star: The World of H.R. Giger Opens May 15 H.R. Giger was a Swiss artist who bore no resemblance to most Swiss. He was a provocateur, creating artwork unlike anything else – metallic, filled with imagery of female genitalia giving birth and skeletal but alive – put him on the map. Giger won a Special Effects Academy Award for his work on Alien and worked on all but one Alien sequels including Aliens vs. Predator, creating creatures and thematic art. Remarkably, Giger never sketched, but used an airbrush freehand to express his dark imaginings. Documentarian Belinda Sallin looks at […]...
- 5/8/2015
- by Anne Brodie
- Monsters and Critics
Read More: New Documentary on Surrealist H.R. Giger, Who Designed the 'Alien' Xenomorph, Coming Soon Influential surrealist painter H. R. Giger hypnotized audiences with his Oscar-winning visual creatures in Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic "Alien" and altered the pop culture landscape forever with his striking, dark visual imagery. Now, the documentary "Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World" is hitting theaters, and Indiewire has an exclusive clip. The film's synopsis reads: "Hollywood, sci-fi, horror, pop music, album covers, punk and goth culture, tattoos and fetish art have been influenced by his intricate, startling paintings and sculptures depicting birth, life, death and sex. Both a mesmerizing introduction to Giger's oeuvre and a must-see for Giger devotees, Belinda Sallin's definitive documentary 'Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World' shares the last years of the artist's life and reveals how deeply he resided within his own artistic visions." Sallin's...
- 5/7/2015
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
North American moviegoers can step into the mind of the late H.R. Giger with Belinda Sallin's intimate documentary, Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World, which is hitting big screens in the U.S. and Canada this May. Also featured in our latest round-up is information on tonight's Everly signing with director Joe Lynch and cast and crew members at Burbank's Dark Delicacies horror shop, as well as the home media release details for Dark Sky Films' Let Us Prey.
Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World: Press Release -- "Surrealist artist H. R. Giger (1940-2014) terrified audiences with his Oscar-winning monsters in Ridley Scott's Alien. Sci-fi, horror, music, album covers, tattoos and fetish art have been influenced by his dark, intricate paintings and sculptures depicting birth, death and sex.
Both a mesmerizing introduction to Giger's oeuvre and a must-see for Giger devotees, Belinda Sallin's definitive documentary Dark Star: H.
Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World: Press Release -- "Surrealist artist H. R. Giger (1940-2014) terrified audiences with his Oscar-winning monsters in Ridley Scott's Alien. Sci-fi, horror, music, album covers, tattoos and fetish art have been influenced by his dark, intricate paintings and sculptures depicting birth, death and sex.
Both a mesmerizing introduction to Giger's oeuvre and a must-see for Giger devotees, Belinda Sallin's definitive documentary Dark Star: H.
- 4/21/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Extremely beloved and influential artist H.R. Giger, who passed away last year, is the subject of Belinda Sallin’s new documentary, Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World, a deep look at an intriguing artist. It will be playing in the U.S. and… Continue Reading →
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- 4/20/2015
- by Scott Hallam
- DreadCentral.com
After a successful film festival run, the definitive documentary Dark Star: H.R. Giger’S World opens in theaters across the U.S. and Canada starting on May 15th, released by Icarus Films and KimStim.
Surrealist artist H. R. Giger (1940-2014) terrified audiences with his Oscar-winning monsters in Ridley Scott’s Alien. Sci-fi, horror, music, album covers, tattoos and fetish art have been influenced by his dark, intricate paintings and sculptures depicting birth, death and sex.
Both a mesmerizing introduction to Hansruedi Giger’s oeuvre and a must-see for Giger devotees, Belinda Sallin’s definitive documentary Dark Star: H. R. Giger’S World shares the intimate last years of the artist’s life and reveals how deeply he resided within his own artistic visions.
The film will play in St. Louis from June 5 – June 10 as part of the Webster University Film Series.
Click here for a complete list of upcoming engagements.
Surrealist artist H. R. Giger (1940-2014) terrified audiences with his Oscar-winning monsters in Ridley Scott’s Alien. Sci-fi, horror, music, album covers, tattoos and fetish art have been influenced by his dark, intricate paintings and sculptures depicting birth, death and sex.
Both a mesmerizing introduction to Hansruedi Giger’s oeuvre and a must-see for Giger devotees, Belinda Sallin’s definitive documentary Dark Star: H. R. Giger’S World shares the intimate last years of the artist’s life and reveals how deeply he resided within his own artistic visions.
The film will play in St. Louis from June 5 – June 10 as part of the Webster University Film Series.
Click here for a complete list of upcoming engagements.
- 4/19/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Welcome back to "The Week in Horror," HitFix's ongoing series rounding up the 10 most pertinent fright-genre stories to break over the last seven days. In this week's edition: America's favorite netlet revives a classic anthology series, Christina Hendricks and Keanu Reeves sign on for some supermodel mayhem, the daughter of two Hollywood legends joins Ryan Murphy's new comedy-horror series (the first ever!) and the remake of a beloved Steven Spielberg Tobe Hooper-directed classic gets its first trailer. See below for the full roundup. #1 The CW is reviving "Tales from the Darkside" The '80s anthology series, known for adapting the works of such legendary horror authors as Stephen King and Clive Barker, is being piloted by the youth-skewing network for a possible airing in the 2015-16 TV cycle. Along with King's son Joe Hill ("Horns"), who wrote the pilot script for the series, "Darkside" will be executive-produced by...
- 2/6/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
It was the hammer-headed Xenomorph from Ridley Scott's 1979 "Alien," with its macabre, womblike set design, that won famed surrealist H.R. Giger his Oscar in 1980 for Best Achievement in Special Effects. Now, Icarus Films and KimStim have announced the joint acquisition of North American distribution rights -- including theatrical, home video and TV -- to "Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World," directed by Belinda Sallin. 2015 release date forthcoming. Giger, who died in 2014, designed out-of-this-world sets and scenes for "Poltergeist 2," "The Other Side," "Alien 3," "Species" and "Prometheus," to name a few, along with mind-bending cover art for Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Debbie Harry and Danzig. Giger was recently featured in the terrific documentary "Jodorowsky's Dune," chronicling the thwarted attempt by Alejandro Jodorowsky, who approached Giger to contribute VFX designs, to mount the Frank Herbert...
- 1/13/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
The trailer for an upcoming documentary called Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World has been released. H.R. Giger was a legendary artist that made a huge impact on movies and the sci-fi genre. This is the man who designed the unique look of Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien. His style of design and art was insane, dark, wild, and awesome. Giger passed away in May, but the legacy that he left behind will live on.
The documentary was directed by Belinda Sallin, and it was filmed over the last years of his life. It promises an inside look into the fantastically bizarre world of one of the most talented artists of the modern era. Here's a lengthy synopsis for the documentary that will give you a solid idea of what to expect:
Where others flee, he makes his home. What others dread, he makes his habitat. What others fight to suppress,...
The documentary was directed by Belinda Sallin, and it was filmed over the last years of his life. It promises an inside look into the fantastically bizarre world of one of the most talented artists of the modern era. Here's a lengthy synopsis for the documentary that will give you a solid idea of what to expect:
Where others flee, he makes his home. What others dread, he makes his habitat. What others fight to suppress,...
- 11/7/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Legendary graphic artist H.R. Giger is the subject of a new documentary by filmmaker Belinda Sallin. Titled Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World, the film aims to shed a light on the Swiss artist’s last years. Before he passed away in May, the light-hearted, humourous man was responsible for plaguing the nightmares of countless moviegoers worldwide with his terrifying creations.
His most recognizable and famous work was a project he was commissioned to design for British director, Ridley Scott – the Alien xenomorph. His snarling, double-jawed and altogether horrific creature went on to dominate the entire movie franchise. But it was its first appearance, in Scott’s original 1979 work, that landed the artist an Oscar.
Sallin’s work delves into Giger’s personal world of darkness, as seen in this first English-language preview for the documentary. There’s no question that he was a gifted sculptor of man’s biggest...
His most recognizable and famous work was a project he was commissioned to design for British director, Ridley Scott – the Alien xenomorph. His snarling, double-jawed and altogether horrific creature went on to dominate the entire movie franchise. But it was its first appearance, in Scott’s original 1979 work, that landed the artist an Oscar.
Sallin’s work delves into Giger’s personal world of darkness, as seen in this first English-language preview for the documentary. There’s no question that he was a gifted sculptor of man’s biggest...
- 11/7/2014
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Watch: Meet The Man Behind 'Alien' & More In Trailer For Documentary 'Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World'
H.R. Giger, perhaps best known in mainstream pop culture as the designer of the xenomorphs from the “Alien” franchise (for which he won an Oscar in 1979), was a reclusive artist who lived in a dark, macabre world of nightmares. “Where others flee, he makes his home. What others dread, he makes his habitat. What others fight to suppress, he drags back to the surface. Throughout his life, Hr Giger inhabited the world of the uncanny: a dark universe on the brink of many an abyss.” So professes a new documentary, "Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World," which shines light on the mysterious Swiss artist during the final years of his life (Giger passed away in May of this year). Directed by filmmaker Belinda Sallin, the film offers a rare look at the man and the mind behind the uncanny, uncategorizable art that is certified nightmare juice for some, and comfort zone for Giger.
- 11/7/2014
- by Zach Hollwedel
- The Playlist
Eleven Swiss films and five Swiss co-productions will screen during the 10th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 25-Oct 5).
This year two local films will be vying for the Golden Eye in the festival’s International Feature Film Competition: Simon Jaquemet’s well-received debut Chrieg, which had its world premiere last week in San Sebastian, and Bruno Deville’s comedy Bouboule.
The Swiss films to screen in the festival’s new competition Focus Switzerland, Germany, Austria comprise: Children Of The Arctic by Nick Brandestini, who won the Golden Eye at the Zff in 2011 with his documentary Darwin; Dark Star – Hr Gigers Welt by Belinda Sallin; Die Demokratie ist los! by Thomas Isler; and Zu Ende leben by Rebecca Panian.
Out of competition titles include Claudio Fäh’s epic Northmen: A Viking Saga and co-production The Wonders, directed by Alice Rohrwacher, which premiered in Cannes.
Daniel von Aarburg’s documentary Carl Lutz – Der Schweizer Schindler will be screened in the...
This year two local films will be vying for the Golden Eye in the festival’s International Feature Film Competition: Simon Jaquemet’s well-received debut Chrieg, which had its world premiere last week in San Sebastian, and Bruno Deville’s comedy Bouboule.
The Swiss films to screen in the festival’s new competition Focus Switzerland, Germany, Austria comprise: Children Of The Arctic by Nick Brandestini, who won the Golden Eye at the Zff in 2011 with his documentary Darwin; Dark Star – Hr Gigers Welt by Belinda Sallin; Die Demokratie ist los! by Thomas Isler; and Zu Ende leben by Rebecca Panian.
Out of competition titles include Claudio Fäh’s epic Northmen: A Viking Saga and co-production The Wonders, directed by Alice Rohrwacher, which premiered in Cannes.
Daniel von Aarburg’s documentary Carl Lutz – Der Schweizer Schindler will be screened in the...
- 9/27/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Though surrealist artist H. R. Giger passed away earlier this year, he will be remembered for generations to come as both an artist that peddled in the dark and twisted and the man behind the design of one of the most enduring monsters in Hollywood.
With her documentary Dark Star: Hr Giger's World, filmmaker Belinda Sallin set out to learn more about Giger. Once an outgoing public figure, in the years after his Oscar win for his work on Alien, Giger slowly began to retreat into his own little world and in the last years of his life, the artist rarely found his way out into the public limelight, choosing instead to spend his time at home surrounded by the work that has made him famous.
With unprecedented access to Giger and his home, Sallin has captured what is likely t [Continued ...]...
With her documentary Dark Star: Hr Giger's World, filmmaker Belinda Sallin set out to learn more about Giger. Once an outgoing public figure, in the years after his Oscar win for his work on Alien, Giger slowly began to retreat into his own little world and in the last years of his life, the artist rarely found his way out into the public limelight, choosing instead to spend his time at home surrounded by the work that has made him famous.
With unprecedented access to Giger and his home, Sallin has captured what is likely t [Continued ...]...
- 9/22/2014
- QuietEarth.us
A total of 12 films from Switzerland, Germany, Austria will compete for the Golden Eye award.Scroll down for full list of titles
Zurich Film Festival (Sept 25 - Oct 5) has unveiled the line-up for its new Focus: Switzerland, Germany, Austria competition section.
Selected films include Toronto titles Labyrinth of Lies, a post-war German drama from Giulio Ricciarelli; and Baran bo Odar’s computer hacker thriller Who Am I - No System is Safe.
Others include Sudabeh Mortezai’s refugee drama Macondo, first seen at the Berlinale in February, which went on to pick up prizes in Hong Kong and Sarajevo; and Ingo Haeb’s The Chambermaid Lynn, which debuted at Montreal and centres on a maid in a large hotel with a fear of human interaction but who craves intimacy.
Documentaries in the line-up include Jørg M. Kundinger and Timon Birkhofer’s Capital C, which explores crowdfunding; Nick Brandestini’s Children of the Arctic, about five native...
Zurich Film Festival (Sept 25 - Oct 5) has unveiled the line-up for its new Focus: Switzerland, Germany, Austria competition section.
Selected films include Toronto titles Labyrinth of Lies, a post-war German drama from Giulio Ricciarelli; and Baran bo Odar’s computer hacker thriller Who Am I - No System is Safe.
Others include Sudabeh Mortezai’s refugee drama Macondo, first seen at the Berlinale in February, which went on to pick up prizes in Hong Kong and Sarajevo; and Ingo Haeb’s The Chambermaid Lynn, which debuted at Montreal and centres on a maid in a large hotel with a fear of human interaction but who craves intimacy.
Documentaries in the line-up include Jørg M. Kundinger and Timon Birkhofer’s Capital C, which explores crowdfunding; Nick Brandestini’s Children of the Arctic, about five native...
- 9/10/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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