"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.
private collection, los angeles
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"WINDOW 5"
latex, blood & dollheads
on wood, glass & iron.
private collection, new york
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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"
5'x 8', paint on concrete
Los Angeles
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"20,000 YEARS"
The Museum of Contemporay Art
5'x 60', paint on concrete
Los Angeles
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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
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THE BRIDGE TO ELOI,
premiered at la film forum
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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.
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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.
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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."
(bio courtesy of Revolutionart International Magazine)
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