creative timeline
(excerpted from Revolutionart International Magazine)

"Mark Miremont was born in Madrid, Spain and put himself through school at Harvard and UCLA where he studied philosophy and film.

early assemblage works

Window 7 - latex, blood & dollheads on wood, glass & iron.
"WINDOW 7"
latex, blood & dollheads on wood, glass & iron.
private collection, los angeles
Window 5 - latex, blood & dollheads on wood, glass & iron.
"WINDOW 5"
latex, blood & dollheads on wood, glass & iron.
private collection, new york



His first noted creative works were hundreds of poetic aphorisms spray-painted on the walls of Downtown Los Angeles and the Mission District in San Francisco along side other outsider artists like Joey Krebs and Robbie Conal before graffiti was held in esteem in the art world. This culminated in a sixty foot long piece on the side of The Museum of Contemporary Art's Temporary Contemporary in Los Angeles.

Reality Comes, paint on concrete.
"REALITY COMES"
5'x 8', paint on concrete
Los Angeles
Forest of Signs Installation, The Museum of Contemporay Art, Los Angeles, CA, paint on concrete, 8' x 60'
"20,000 YEARS"
The Museum of Contemporay Art
5'x 60', paint on concrete
Los Angeles

Running into the law doing this work led him to use film as a creative outlet, since it too allowed him to merge his philosophical ideas in a visual way. He began making experimental films that screened with works by Warhol and Brakhage.



ANTINOMIES,
1st short film, led to UCLA grad school invitation




THE BRIDGE TO ELOI,
premiered at la film forum


Before entering UCLA's Graduate School of Film he began directing music videos. His first video was for Soundgarden's song, Flower, which was a cross between the punk rock zine Flipside and Jean Cocteau's, Le Sang D'Un Poete. Airing regularly on MTV, the video signaled the first shots of the grunge movement.



SOUNDGARDEN, "flower" SST/A&M Records

Directed, produced, photographed and edited by
Mark Miremont.

*Singer Chris Cornell has a cameo in
Mark's feature film, THE WHITE OCEAN.





LAZLO BANE, "overkill" Geffen Records

Directed and co-photographed by
Mark Miremont.





TOAD THE WET SPROCKET, "one little girl"
Columbia/Sony Music

Directed, photographed and animated by
Mark Miremont.




GREN, "she shines" IRS/Capital Records

Directed, produced, photographed and edited by
Mark Miremont.








CHRIS WHITLEY, "automatic", "gasket" Sony Music

Directed, produced, photographed and edited by
Mark Miremont.





PROTEIN, "refridgerator", "EPK" Sony Music

Directed, produced, photographed and edited by
Mark Miremont.



His work caught the attention of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute while he was still in his first year of film school and he was invited to develop his first script, The White Ocean, at the prestigious June Filmmaker's Lab the same year Quinten Tarrantino developed, Reservoir Dogs.



THE WHITE OCEAN

a feature film developed through THE SUNDANCE INSTITUTE
filmed in PANAVISION. 35mm, black & white on color. in post-production.

starring HERMAS LASALLE, NATALIE KARP, DENNIS KING KIZER & LLOYD W. OTTO
Written, produced, directed and photographed by MARK MIREMONT
2nd unit photography HELGE GERULL art direction JAMIE FOLEY
assistant director ELLIOTT COWAND location sound WALLLY ANDREWS
featuring KEROL RAE, CHRIS CORNELL, AGON KAFKA, CHRIS DOURIDAS
MICHAEL JAY ARONOVITZ, BRUCE BOWDLER, DAVID LOREN, GYULA GAZDAG
KIETH MCGOVERN, EVAN LIVINGSTONE, DARRYL DISTIN, COLLEN CORRIGAN
EEVO MEHMEDOVIC, DINO MEHMEDOVIC, GINA SHAY, JAY STEMMER, EDDIE EDWARDS,
MR. DINKY, NATHAN LAFINOPOLIS & LESLIE NEWTON script supervisor DAVE PLASKETT
steadicam operators PAUL TAYLOR & RICK DAVIDSON assistant camera
R.J. MINO, KRYSTZTOF WOJCIECKOWSKI, ARSHAK TOUMASSIAN, DAVE TAYLOR,
CARLOS RIVERA & DEBBIE LIPPMAN art department MARTEL WEBSTER, BRIAN PORT,
GINA SHAY, AMY JOHNSON, LORRETTA DURROW, CLIFTON WEBSTER, CHRIS NEMHART,
EMILLIA NALLI & CHRISTIAN FLORES coordintors GINA SHAY, DOROTA ZUKOWSKA-WASKO,
VLADIMIR PERLOVICH, GEOFF JENKINS, NATALIE GOMEZ & DAN ISAACSEN
video support DAMIAN HOFFER drivers DAVID STERN, JOHN DONAHUE & DARRYL DISTIN
animal wranglers MICHELLE NICHOLSON, RICHARD, KIETH GIBSON, CINDY LOWE
& RUTH McDOUGHY model maker TOM THEES production assistants SARA ANLLO,
JOHN AURTHER, NEWTON BASS, JOE BEDERUS, JOHN MARK BELMONT, WILL BINDER,
MEGAN BRYANT, ERIKA BOBROW,DEBRA CASSIDY, PETER CHAN, DAVID CHOO,
MICHEAL CULLEN, MIKE DiROMA, JULIE DOLE, DEBRA EGGE, TRACY FELDSTEIN,
BETHANNE FIFE, ERIN FLYNN, JERRY FOREMAN, JOE GRIGGS, RICHARD GUILIANNO,
JULIE KAHN, TOM KATSTENBAUM, KAYTEL, TONYA KENDEL, PETER KLIDARAS,
NATHAN LAFINDOPHILUS, LUIS M. MEZA, GILAD NEWMAN, LESLIE NEWTON,
SHERRY ROBERTSON, SALINA SORGDRAGGER, KIETH SPEGAL, POYU SU

A simple request by a band to shoot photos for an album led Miremont to pursue what he is perhaps best known for - his wildly original and perfectly composed color photography. His brash, sensual figurative work is largely responsible for the resurgence of "the pinup" and he counts as fans, not only the flocks of tattooed suicide girls, but also many of the original pinups like the late Bettie Page and living legend, Mamie Van Doren who offers that, "Mark is blazing a trail into the future of photography."



UPCOMING EXHIBITS & SCREENINGS


wasteland

Wasteland is proud to present the WORLD PREMIERE of Mark Miremont's THE RESURRECTION OF BEAUTY, the new DVD of short films featuring Dita Von Teese, Puma Swede and many others.

Considered one of the world's most spectacular and decadent events, this year's Wasteland will be held on November 13th, 2010 in Amsterdam. - w a s t e l a n d

wasteland

This world premiere is in conjunction with the exhibit of new Miremont photographs at La Galerie Provocatrice, curated by Zaki Silverman. This opens the night before in Amsterdam and features photographs which were created at the same time as the films. - la galerie provocatrice




please enjoy this special online trailer, until these events



THE RESSURECTION OF BEAUTY

This is a signed and numbered DVD, limited to an edition of 1032, available in the Fall for $32. US

starring JENNIFER, TRINE, ELIZA, PUMA, HEATHER, SOPHIA, PASON, KATE, LUCRETIA, ALY, KERRI, PAIGE & DITA

Produced, Directed, Photographed & Edited by MARK MIREMONT
featuring music by MIREMONT & re-orchestrations of STRAVINSKY, SATIE & DEBUSSY

photographed in new york, los angeles, las vegas, toronto, niagara falls & the dominican republic




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