Person
Scott Stark
Directing · Milwaukee, WI
Biography
Scott Stark has produced more than 75 films and videos since 1980. Additionally, he has created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations using film and video, and elaborate photographic collages using large grids of images. Born and educated in the midwest, he has always been interested in aggressively pushing his work beyond the threshold of traditional viewing expectations, challenging the audience to question its relationship to the cinematic process; yet he also tries to build into the work elements of humor and incongruity that allow the viewer an entryway into the work while maintaining a critical distance. Both a passionate purist and a cynical skeptic, he likes to emphasize the physicality of film while cross-referencing it to the world outside the theater, attempting to lay bare the paradoxes of modern culture and the magical nature of the perceptual experience.
Known for
Angel Beach
Director
Damnation
Director
NOEMA
Director
Hotel Cartograph
Director of Photography
Acceleration
Director
Longhorn Tremolo
Director
Shape Shift
Director
Tulsa
Director
Driven
Director
BLOOM
Director
Filmography
- 2025TulsaDirector
- 2024The Last ForeverDirector
- 2022DamnationDirector
- 2022Music in the AirDirector
- 2022Underlying Persistent Volumes, Part 2Director
- 2022Night Out of SongDirector
- 2022Underlying Persistent VolumesMusic
- 2015Traces/LegacyDirector
- 2015Is it true what they sayDirector
- 2013The RealistDirector
- 2012BLOOMDirector
- 2012One Way to Find OutDirector
- 2012Tenpin ArpeggioDirector
- 2012TracesDirector
- 2010Longhorn TremoloDirector
- 2010Compressive/PercussiveDirector
- 2008SpeechlessDirector
- 2008RightDirector
- 2007Into the MassThanks
- 2006All About the IllusionDirector
- 2005DrivenDirector
- 2004Shape ShiftDirector
- 2003To Love or To DieDirector
- 2001Angel BeachDirector
- 2001More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane FondaSelf
- 1999in.side.outDirector
- 1998NOEMADirector
- 1997Back in the Saddle AgainDirector
- 1994I’ll Walk with GodDirector
- 1993Unauthorized AccessDirector
- 1993AccelerationDirector
- 1991Cat DanceDirector
- 1990Protective ColorationDirector
- 1988The sound of his faceDirector
- 1988CornersDirector
- 1988WDirector
- 1988SatrapyDirector
- 1987CrazyDirector
- 1987Chromesthetic ResponseDirector
- 1986Low Resolution TVDirector
- 1985ProbabilityDirector
- 1982Hotel CartographDirector of Photography
- 1982Degrees of LimitationDirector
- —Love and the Epiphanists: Chapter OneDirector
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