Independent creative lab Los York and its sister production company Los Films have signed director Raphael Vangelis.
A multidisciplinary director with a background in filmmaking, editing, motion graphics, animation, live action and model-making, Vangelis is also known for his art installations that are inspired by the street art of Banksy and Keith Haring. Vangelis’ “Brickflats” series are resin cast boxes that fill the space of missing bricks in walls and buildings and contain colorful figures of people squashed-in, reflecting the cramped living conditions many face in London and Barcelona.
His directing work includes visually spectacular collages of color and movement that are like living artworks. For example, a recent campaign he directed for Casper, the DTC mattress and bedding maker, is a magical fusion of live action and stop-motion camera work.
“Raphael works at a highly seductive, hypnotic level seldom achieved in our industry,” said Los York founder/ECD Seth Epstein. “He is an artist-savant, a wizard, a creator of intoxicating worlds on film. Seeing his work is like stepping into a magnificent dream. He is an accomplished live-action filmmaker who brilliantly blends the real and the surreal. A true discovery, Raphael is already wowing brands and winning bids. This is the start of a beautiful relationship.”
Vangelis got his start in the film and advertising industry as a 3D artist with Buck in New York, later as a director with Hornet in New York and Glassworks in London, and as a creative director with ManvsMachine also in London. Over the years he has built a singular reputation as a fully hands-on creator, immersing himself in projects from concept to postproduction. He has worked on campaigns for top brands from Nike to Bombay Sapphire. Lately, he has been busy exploring the nooks and crannies of European cities, installing his Brickflat sculptures wherever he finds a hole in a wall.
Vangelis said of his colleagues at Los York, “They have proven over and over how to put ideas first and be versatile in any form of execution. This approach fits me and makes me fit in perfectly. Together we hope to work with playful, imaginative brands that look for concept-driven content. I can’t wait to do some high-class mixed media action together–and I don’t mean recycling.”
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