Director Ben Mor has signed with RSA in the U.S. and U.K. for commercials. He continues to be handled by RSA sister shop Black Dog U.S. and U.K. for music videos.
Mor, whose prior spotmaking roost was Little Minx, has directed ads for such global clients as Pepsi, Verizon, HP, ESPN, Tanqueray, Chevrolet, Miller Genuine Draft, Microsoft and Coca-Cola, and iconic music videos for pop culture heavy hitters including Katy Perry, Black Eyed Peas, Britney Spears, John Legend and NAS. Mor is currently in development on multiple feature projects.
As an avid art collector and enthusiast, Mor has a keen eye for emerging artists, and has collaborated with art world Brazilian superstars OSGEMEOS to create a short film that introduces the world to the twin brothers’ varied visual output. Filmed over a span of four years, this short is a landmark in Mor’s film career and premiered on Flux Screening at the Hammer Museum.
Mor came into the world of film as a musician and composer and is in a rare company of directors that have won awards for both directing and scoring. Mor’s collective video output has been viewed well over a billion times worldwide.
In 2012, Mor earned acclaim for his action packed trailer for the newest rendition of Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon video game franchise for its seamless use of action, visual effects and sound design.
RSA is headed by president Jules Daly.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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