Director and video artist Luigi Pane has come aboard the roster of integrated content Humble, landing his first U.S. representation for commercials, branded content and music videos. He continues to work independently via his own production/creative studio, abstr^ct:groove.
The Italian director’s work is characterized by a sensual fusion of auto, fashion, and beauty–drawing inspiration from art house films as well as classic live action style. He comes to Humble with a vast body of work consisting of commercials, original content, video installations, and short films highlighting a rigorously studied style all while maintaining a cutting edge visual perspective.
Humble president/owner Eric Berkowitz said of Pane, “Everything from cars, to fashion, to avant-garde storytelling–this man brings the heat in true Italian form.”
Born in Naples, the young artist moved to Milan to study design at the Politecnico di Milano. At the onset of his career, the director hit the ground running, collaborating with brands like Dolce & Gabbana, Diesel, Pirelli, Ray-Ban, and Persol and quickly gaining widespread recognition for his work.
Pane received an Epica d’Or at the Epica Awards for his work on a short film for Diesel, Explorers of the Past and Future, in 2008, Special Prize at the Milan International Film Festival for his architectural mapping project “Building Urban Motion,” and Special Recognition at the London International Awards and PIVI awards for his collaboration with artist Franky B, aka Cryptic Monkey, on the surreal music video “Vesuvius Bunks.”
Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”
When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.
Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.
But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.
As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.
"Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."
"Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More