Mark Pellington
Mark Pellington ( born March 17, 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American director of films and music videos.
Life
Pellington's father in 1994 died of Alzheimer's Baltimore Colts football player Bill Pellington. Mark Pellington grew up in Brooklandville, Maryland. Later he attended the University of Virginia, where he received a degree in rhetoric. His wife Jennifer Barrett Pellington died 2004. In some of his films she had worked as a costume designer.
Career
His first work was the short film Words in your Face with KRS -One, John Leguizamo and Henry Rollins. It was followed by various music videos, including for Nine Inch Nails, Alice in Chains, INXS and Bon Jovi. For the controversial video for Jeremy by Pearl Jam Pellington received an MTV Video Music Award. For the Whale Hobo Humpin video ' Slobo Babe there was the 1994 MTV Europe Music Award.
In 1995, he worked for United States of Poetry, a poem visualization, among others, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen and Johnny Depp together.
For his first feature film The Going All the Way (OT: Going All the Way ), he was nominated in 1997 at the Sundance Festival for the Grand Jury Prize. A larger audience and a lot of encouragement among critics reached 1999, his film Arlington Road with Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges in the lead roles. 2002 The Mothman Prophecies Thriller followed, in which Richard Gere was involved.
In 2003 he was present alongside Michael Moore, Jack Black and a number of other critics of the then U.S. President George W. Bush one of the judges of the short film competition Bush in 30 seconds, in which it came in 30 seconds why Bush not for his office is suitable.
Even as an actor, he worked: In the films Almost Famous - Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire his friend Cameron Crowe Pellington is represented with cameos. In The Mothman Prophecies he is seen as a bartender.