Dark Star: HR Gigers Welt

"The Artist Who Designed Ridley Scott's Alien"

Aug 18 2015 Not Rated 1h 35m
Biography, Documentary

An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome as they are fascinating, inhabitants of nightmarish biomechanical worlds.

Plot

He feels at home in places we would flee from and lives his life among the very things we fear. Throughout his life, HR Giger had inhabited the world of the uncanny, a dark universe on the brink of many an abyss. It was the only way this amiable, modest and humorous man was able to keep his fears in check. Giger was merely the bearer of dark messages, charting our nightmares, drafting maps of our subconscious and molding our primal fears. A film with and about the internationally acclaimed and controversial painter, sculptor, architect and designer (Oscar for 'Alien').

Written by

Belinda Sallin

Directed by

Belinda Sallin

Production Countries

Switzerland

Production Companies

T&C Film AG

Languages

Deutsch

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination total

Scores
# of Votes
1,324
Average Rating
6.9 out of 10
Metascore
62
Popularity
NA