Bicoastal creative postproduction studio Modern Post has added editor Aitor Bigas to its roster for his first U.S. representation. Bigas’ work spans brands including Gucci, Loewe, Louis Vuitton, Acne Studios and Calvin Klein as well as stylized music videos for artists such as Bad Bunny, Arca, Bjork and Rosalía.
Bigas said, “With their talented roster and highly stylized work, Modern Post was a natural fit for me in the U.S. market.”
“Aitor’s work is incredibly dynamic and seamlessly integrates music and sound,” added Modern Post managing director Charlyn Derrick. “Whether he is working on a music video or a fashion spot, his distinct point of view is clear and you can feel an emotional pull across his body of work.”
After studying film at Barcelona Cinema School, Bigas got his start cutting music videos with friends. He gravitated towards the more experimental nature of the genre, which dovetailed nicely into the fashion space when he made the transition to brand work. He began rapidly building a reel for a wide range of fashion and luxury brands, drawing upon his experience as a drummer to punctuate heightened visuals with syncopated music and sound design.
A student of the world, Bigas continues to pursue his artistic passions beyond filmmaking, voraciously exploring all that European photography, art and music has to offer. He also is currently working on releasing the fifth photography book out of his own publishing house, PROGRESSO.
Review: Malcolm Washington Makes His Feature Directing Debut With “The Piano Lesson”
An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm Washington follows in his father Denzel Washington's footsteps in helping to bring the entirety of The Pittsburgh Cycle — a series of 10 plays — to the screen.
Malcolm Washington did not start from scratch in his accomplished feature filmmaking debut. He enlisted much of the cast from the recent Broadway revival with Samuel L. Jackson (Doaker Charles), his brother, John David Washington (Boy Willie), Ray Fisher (Lymon) and Michael Potts (Whining Boy). Berniece, played by Danielle Brooks in the play, is now beautifully portrayed by Danielle Deadwyler. With such rich material and a cast for whom it's second nature, it would be hard, one imagines, to go wrong. Jackson's own history with the play goes back to its original run in 1987 when he was Boy Willie.
It's not the simplest thing to make a play feel cinematic, but Malcolm Washington was up to the task. His film opens up the world of the Charles family beyond the living room. In fact, this adaptation, which Washington co-wrote with "Mudbound" screenwriter Virgil Williams, goes beyond Wilson's text and shows us the past and the origins of the intricately engraved piano that's central to all the fuss. It even opens on a big, action-filled set piece in 1911, during which the piano is stolen from a white family's home. Another fleshes out Doaker's monologue in which he explains to the uninitiated, Fisher's Lymon, and the audience, the tortured history of the thing. While it might have been nice to keep the camera on Jackson, such a great, grounding presence throughout, the good news is that he really makes... Read More