Influential surrealist painter H. R. Giger (1940-2014) hypnotized audiences with his Oscar-winning visual creatures in Ridley Scott’s masterpiece ALIEN and altered the pop culture landscape forever with his striking, dark visual imagery. After a successful film festival run, the definitive documentary DARK STAR: H.R. GIGER’S WORLD plays theatrically across the U.S. and Canada starting on May 15th, released by Icarus Films and KimStim.
Hollywood, sci-fi, horror, pop music, album covers, punk and goth culture, tattoos and fetish art have been influenced by his intricate, startling paintings and sculptures depicting birth, life, death and sex. Both a mesmerizing introduction to Giger’s oeuvre and a must-see for Giger devotees, Belinda Sallin’s definitive documentary DARK STAR: H. R. GIGER’S WORLD shares the last years of the artist’s life and reveals how deeply he resided within his own artistic visions.
[…] threatening situation and is so traumatic that we never want to revisit the experience. This new documentary film reflects on how Giger accurately portrays these dark emotions and events in his art and how we can […]