Biography
Marco Brambilla (born 1960, 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. 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 ...
Complete Filmography

7 Deaths of Maria Callas
2022
Co-Director
A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure of renowned American-Greek opera singer Maria Cal...

Heaven’s Gate
2022
Director
Creating a continuous loop through cinematic history, New York-based video artist Marco Bramilla satirizes seminal moments of the silver screen in lar...

The Four Temperaments
2020
Director
The work follows Greek philosopher Galen’s classification of four personality dispositions—sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic. In the fil...
Nude Descending A Staircase No. 3
2019
Director
3-channel high-definition video installation
Pelleas et Melisande
2019
Director
Work by artist Marco Brambilla.

Apollo XVIII
2015
Director
4K ultra-high definition, dual-screen video tile display in custom enclosure
Evolution Megaplex
2012
Director
The history of humankind is illustrated as a vast side-scrolling video mural depicting the spectacle of human conflict across time through the lens of...
RPM
2011
Director
The line between man and machine is blurred in this 3D video collage. Commissioned by Ferrari S.p.A., RPM presents a compelling psychological portrait...
Flashback
2011
Director
FLashback deals with the collective subconscious and memory using film iconography, the work is presented in a thirty-six block video matrix spanning ...

Ghost (Natasha Poly: Multiple Exposure)
2009
Director
Set against a stark, monochromatic background with a hairless Poly as the centerpiece, the video gives you an unsettling feeling that something distur...

Civilization
2008
Director
Civilization is a multi-layered tableau of interconnecting images that illustrates a contemporary, satirical take on the concepts of eternal punishmen...
Cathedral
2008
Director
Cathedral was filmed at the Toronto Eaton Centre mega mall during the Christmas shopping season. Here is consumerism as spectacle: Throngs of shoppers...

Destricted
2006
Director, Editor
A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.

Sync
2006
Editor, Director
'Sync' is made up of sampled images from sex scenes in mainstream and adult films. The formulaic and often derivative nature of the way this subject i...
Sea of Tranquility
2006
Director
In this computer-generated “time-lapse study” of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, the Eagle spacecraft and the American flag planted alongside are sho...
Sync: Watch
2005
Director
Sync features three screens of densely edited film footage, each organized around a different theme—fight scenes, sex scenes, and theater audiences—al...
HalfLife (Surveillance Channel)
2002
Director
The multi-channel video installation HalfLife juxtaposes surveillance footage of video gamers in cyber-cafés playing the popular video game, ‘Counter-...

Dinotopia
2002
Director
After a plane crash strands two brothers on a lost continent where dinosaurs and humans live together in harmony, they disagree over escape plans. (C...
Sequel
2001
Director
Film footage of Sylvester Stallone in Brambilla's 1993 debut feature-film, Demolition Man, is re-photographed through the gate of a 35mm projector and...
Wall of Death
2001
Director
In the carnival act “Wall of Death,” first performed in the 1930s, a motorcyclist rides around the inside of a wooden drum, maintaining a delicate sta...
Cyclorama
1999
Director
Filmed in 35mm at nine revolving restaurants across North America—including ones in Seattle, Las Vegas, St. Louis, and New York—Cyclorama presents nin...
Gateway
1999
Director
Shot from the point of view of a passenger aircraft, Getaway begins with an aerial view of a generic industrial district and ends with a landing on th...
Approach
1999
Director
Filmed at John F. Kennedy Airport, Approach catches passengers arriving from long-haul flights as they enter the terminal looking for contact with som...
Superstar
1999
Director
Inspired by Yves Klein’s Leap into the Void (1960), Superstar was commissioned by Creative Time to be presented on the Jumbotron screen in Times Squar...

Excess Baggage
1997
Director
A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.

Demolition Man
1993
Director
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a res...