Marco Brambilla (born 1964, Milan, Italy) is an Italian-born Canadian artist and filmmaker who works in the United States. Educated at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, where he studied film, he first worked in commercials and feature films, directing the successful 1993 science fiction film Demolition Man.
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In 1998 he shifted focus to video and photography projects, and has since exhibited works in private and public collections, including at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, “Cyclorama” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and “HalfLife” at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, His commissions include “Superstar” for the “59th Minute” series in Times Square in 1999, and “Arcadia” for “Massless Medium: Explorations in Sensory Immersion” at Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage in 2001, both for New York public arts organization Creative Time.
His installation, “Cathedral” was showcased during the Toronto International Film Festival 2008 and his latest work “Civilization” is now a permanent installation at the Standard Hotel in New York.
“Civilization” is installed in the elevators of the hotel and it depicts the journey from Hell (Ground Floor) to Heaven (Upper Floors). It is made of footage of different films and is definitely something that it has to be seen many many times to catch all of them.
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It can be watch bigger here (definitely worth it).
pol