H. R. Giger
Birthday: 1940-02-05
Place of Birth: Chur, Switzerland
Biography: Hans Ruedi was a Swiss painter, whose style was adapted for many forms of media, including record albums, furniture and tattoos. The Zurich-based artist was best known for airbrush images of humans and machines linked together in a cold biomechanical relationship. Later he abandoned airbrush work for pastels, markers, and ink.
Movies
The Beast Within: Making Alien
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew tra...
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Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaust...
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H.R. Giger Revealed
The film offers a unique insight into the world of Giger's creation and his private life. In additio...
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Jodorowsky's Dune
In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting F...
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Monsterland
A journey through time and history of diverse monster types, from the latex monster in devastated po...
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Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World
An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940...
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High and Heimkiller
A descent into an illustrated, monochromatic world of macabre creatures of increasing intensity....
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H.R. Giger's Sanctuary
"H.R. Giger's Sanctuary" explores the treasures of the H.R. Giger Museum & Giger Bar at the Chat...
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Home-Killer
An instrument containing a man's head is operated by a mysterious man in black....
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Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures
French artist and author Jean Giraud is one of the most famous and influential comic strip illustrat...
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A New Face of Debbie Harry by H.R. Giger
Debbie Harry first solo album with banned art by H.R. Giger is covered....
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The Occult Experience
An examination of occultism as practiced in different parts of the world....
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The Alien Saga
In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weave...
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Giger's Necronomicon
Inside the Giger studio creating one of his famous pieces, carving a mountain of clay into the famou...
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Passagen
H.R. Giger became known all over the world as the designer of the aliens in Ridley Scott's feature f...
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Traceroute
Artist and life-long nerd Johannes Grenzfurthner is taking us on a personal road trip from the West ...
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Alien Makers III
H.R. Giger created one of the great iconic symbols of the cinema for the film 'Alien', here he talks...
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Giger - Passage to the Id
Documentary film about the Swiss multidisciplinary artist H. R. Giger, who has become known, for exa...
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