Director and interactive artist Uri Schutzer has signed with The-Artery for international representation. He had previously been handled in the U.K. by John Spary Associates and in The Netherlands by Revolver Amsterdam. Schutzer continues to be repped in Israel by Tami Har-lev Agency
With an extensive background across advertising, music videos, interactive experiences, and more, Schutzer brings a contemporary, cinematic filmmaking style marked by an artful eye, deft camera movements, and special effects. His approach in the mixed reality space marries AR/VR projections and games with live performances. “I love exploring new tools and platforms both on-set and during postproduction as well as finding innovative ways to capture magical moments in storytelling,” said Schutzer. “In interactive experiences especially, storytelling is the most important thing. When branching visuals flow naturally with the rest of the narrative content, it creates amazing engagement with the audience.”
Executive creative director Vico Sharabani, founder of The-Artery, assessed, ”Uri combines a fashionable style with cutting edge technologies as well as beauty with performance, such unique combinations are the foundation of The-Artery and, after working on the CG music video ‘Chosen’ together, we felt we needed to take this relationship to greater lengths.”
“Chosen” was done for YouTube sensation, internet rock band The Living Tombstone (which was brought to life entirely through CG along with motion capture elements)
Awarded with Effie and Promax accolades, Schutzer has directed commercials for such clients as Coca-Cola, Unilever, Orange, Nestle, and a wide range of fashion and cosmetic brands. His most notable pieces include the immersive “SDG Dome” and “SGD VR Experience” for PwC and the United Nations as well as the interactive “Keep Your Head Up” music video for singer and songwriter Andy Grammer. The latter garnered “Most Innovative Music Video” at MTV’s OMAs.
Schutzer was introduced to Sharabani several years ago when he first moved to New York. According to Schutzer, “Vico and I clicked immediately as we both shared the same passion and taste for high-end aesthetics, film, and innovation. I was impressed by his team’s level of execution and we started looking for the right opportunity to work together. During the difficult days of quarantine, our chance unexpectedly arose in the form of a music video for The Living Tombstone. We had a highly collaborative dynamic and couldn’t be more proud of the final compositions! I look forward to our next projects, both in the U.S. and abroad.”
The-Artery managing director and executive producer Deborah Sullivan added, “We knew we wanted an artist who can not only follow our virtual production pipeline, but also offer fresh ideas to it as there’s always room for refinement. Uri, hands down, fills that role and we can’t wait for him to channel his interactive sensibilities into our upcoming creative briefs.”
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More