Floria Sigismondi is a photographer and director. Apart from her art exhibitions she is best known for directing music videos. Her trademark dilating, jittery camerawork, noticeable as early as her video for Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People", has been replicated by a great number of directors since. Her parents, Lina and Domenico Sigismondi, were opera singers. Her family, including her sister Antonella, moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada when she was two. In her childhood she became obsessed by drawing and painting. Later, from 1987 she studied painting and illustration at the Ontario College of Art, today's Ontario College of Art & Design .
Studied painting and illustration at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Daughter, Tosca Vera Sigismondi-Berlin, was born in October 2004. She was named after the Italian opera "Tosca".
Husband is Lillian Berlin, lead singer of the rock band Living Things.
Met her husband in 2003 while shooting the video "Bombs Below" for rock band Living Things in Prague.
Directed music videos for Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Tricky, Filter, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Interpol, Living Things, Christina Aguilera, Sigur Ros, Incubus, The Cure, The White Stripes, Muse, Billy Talent and more.
Her favorite films are Mamma Roma , A Clockwork Orange , Le locataire , Sid and Nancy and Edward Scissorhands .
Her parents, Lina and Domenico Sigismondi, were opera singers.
Currently resides in Toronto, New York City and Los Angeles.
As point of 2017, she directed only one feature movie, The Runaways .
I am an optimist of course, but I am a realist also. It is evident that,the course of the future will be very different than we enjoy it now. I,depict a world gone wrong because that is part of nature. . . our human,nature. We play God. Whether it be through war, the environment or,genome manipulation, there is plenty of room for corruption and,corrupted it will be.
I express my angers and loves through my work. Things that preoccupy me,and elate me. Subconsciously, it creeps into the images I create.
[on television] Television is very voyeuristic if you like that. . . it is,mainly used for the dumbing down of society. . . I struggle with this,fine line everyday. . . the goal is to help reinvent television in a way,that informs and not contorts. . . human are more complex then that.
Contradictions in life are what make life interesting. .
