Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky ( born February 12, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American film director and screenwriter.
Life
Aronofsky comes from a conservative Jewish teachers household. After school Aronofsky attended Harvard University and studied anthropology, film and animation. In 1991, he joined the University with distinction. He attended the American Film Institute. In 1996, Aronofsky to work on the design of his first feature film Pi. The film was completed in 1998, at the Sundance Film Festival the same year he was rewarded with a prize for best director.
Followed in 2000 by Requiem for a Dream, realized with a larger budget and given even more attention on the part of film criticism. The film project, which Aronofsky wanted to follow, could be started only delayed by a few years because of the take-off of an actor and the bursting of the financing. Under the title The Fountain, the film came in 2006 in the cinemas, Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz play the main roles. In 2008, Aronofsky received for The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke as the title character of the Golden Lion at the 65th Venice Film Festival 2008.
Aronofsky's cinematic trademark is a technique that is known as hip-hop installation. Here, images or actions are shown in fast motion, cut parallel sound effects that are intended to illustrate a particular, recurring action or trance-like states of intoxication (eg the use of drugs of the protagonists in Requiem for a Dream or panic attacks in Pi). Furthermore, he often uses the Snorricam, or also called Body Mount, in which the camera is attached to the belly of the actor and film in his face, and so only the background appears to move.
2011 received Aronofsky for his directing of the playing in the New York ballet milieu psychological thriller Black Swan nominated for an Oscar. Also in 2011 Aronofsky was president of the jury of the 68th Venice Film Festival.
Personal
Aronofsky was engaged with the Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz, who he met in 2002 and directed the film The Fountain with her. In 2006, the couple had a son. In November 2010, Rachel Weisz announced the separation.