You little wonder, you…
I’m sure many of you either saw this on the day of publication or via a Google news alert, but in case you didn’t, it’s worth repeating here.
The New York Times has published a piece about upcoming feature, The Runaways, which we told you about at the beginning of the month. (03.01.2010 NEWS: TWO BOWIE SONGS ON RUNAWAYS SOUNDTRACK PLUS CC TALKS DB)
The article, by Sia Michel, has an interview with the film’s writer/director,
She also directed the equally bizarre but stunningly beautiful Dead Man Walking video, a still from which adorns the cover of her book of photographs, Redemption…the book contains several other stills from both videos.
Anyway, here’s a bit from that NY Times piece, wherein, via e-mail, Bowie spoke highly about Sigismondi and her working methods…
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Born in Italy to opera singers, Ms. Sigismondi moved to Canada with her family when she was 2. She grew up doing her homework in opera houses, surrounded by people in costume, she said, and dreamed of becoming a painter. After art college she embarked on a career as a fashion and art photographer; her work has been widely exhibited and collected in two books. In the early 1990s a production company suggested she make the leap into directing music videos. ?Instead of coming up with one image, I had to come up with 100 images,? she said. ?But I loved it right away. Now I was able to be more conceptual.?
The biggest legend she has ever worked with is Mr. Bowie. The video for his 1997 song ?Little Wonder? is a quick-cut barrage of eyeballs, eye patches and aliens. ?Floria is a real force of nature, never short of ideas, and meticulous in the way she brings them into play,? Mr. Bowie said in an e-mail message. ?She?s also a little bit crazy, in a dark way, which in a working situation is just fine with me.?
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You can read the full article
Above is a still of the Cherie Currie character applying an Aladdin Sane thunderbolt after cutting her hair into a Ziggy(ish) style, along with a glimpse of her in full glam mode performing a Bowie song at her high school…apparently not to an appreciative audience.
The Runaways is in US theatres on March 19th…check out the official site of the movie