Ray Tintori
Ray Tintori is an American
Personal life
Tintori graduated from
Works
Tintori's first two short films were heavily narrated, black & white, fantasy stories featuring numerous whimsical characters. His directorial debut was the 2005 short film Jettison Your Loved Ones, which screened at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival.[4] New York magazine referred to the film as "a deranged, no-budget sci-fi epic [...] some of the most hypnotic and strange six minutes you’ll ever spend staring at a computer screen."[4] His senior thesis film Death to the Tinman premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival[3] where it won a short filmmaking award.[5]
Tintori directed the music video for the MGMT's single "
In July, 2009, Spike Jonze announced that Tintori would be directing Light Boxes, an adaptation of the novel by Shane Jones.[7] However, in May 2010, Jonze stated that Tintori was no longer working on the project,[8] and in June 2010, Shane Jones said the film option had been dropped.[9]
In May, 2010, the Brooklyn Arts Council honored Tintori with a "premature retrospective", screening a number of his short films and other works.[10]
Tintori worked on Court 13's first feature film Beasts of the Southern Wild as Aurochs and Special Effects Unit Director.[11]
Tintori participated in the Sundance Institute's 2013 June Screenwriters Lab with his Untitled Cabal Project,[12] and his short film Cabal screened at the 2014 Borscht Film Festival.[13]
Tintori worked on Approaching the Unknown as Practical SFX Unit Director. Pre-production and filming of the effects sequences took place under the mentorship of Douglas Trumbull at Trumbull Studios in the Berkshire Mountains.[14]
In 2016, Tintori directed a trailer video for Google's Tilt Brush.[15]
In 2017, Tintori won a Sports Emmy for his work with
In 2018, Tintori directed the ULP Orientation Video in the "Windmills" episode of Maniac.[17]
Filmography
Music videos
- "Electric Feel" by MGMT (2007) (Interactive video)
- "Time to Pretend" by MGMT (2008)
- "Electric Feel" by MGMT (2008)
- "Delivery Man" by The Cool Kids (2008)
- "Spaceman" by The Killers (2009)
- "Evident Utensil" by Chairlift (2009)
- "Kids" by MGMT (2009)
- "Dressed to Digress" by Boy Crisis (2009)
- "Crystallize" (YouTube Music Awards version) by Lindsey Stirling (2013)[18]
- "Chemistry" by Arcade Fire (2018)[19]
Short films
- Jettison Your Loved Ones (2005)
- Death to the Tinman (2006)
- Cabal (2014)
References
- ^ David Knight (September 19, 2008). "The Cool Kids' Delivery Man by Ray Tintori". Promo News. Archived from the original on October 3, 2011. Retrieved October 2, 2009.
- ^ Katey Rich (July 28, 2009). "Jonze Picks Up Light Boxes For First-Time Filmmaker Ray Tintori". Cinema Blend. Retrieved July 28, 2009.
- ^ a b "Ray Tintori, Death to the Tinman", The Reeler, thereeler.com, January 15, 2007
- ^ a b Bilge Ebiri, Filmmaker "Ray Tintori Reunites Father and Son, Blows Up Earth", New York, nymag.com, January 3, 2008
- ^ Andre Soares (January 27, 2007). "Sundance 2007 Awards". Alternative Film Guide. Retrieved October 5, 2009.
- ^ "2009 MTV Video Music Awards: Breakthrough Video". MTV. Retrieved August 8, 2009.
- ^ Dave McNary (July 27, 2009). "Jonze acquires 'Boxes' feature rights". Variety. Retrieved July 28, 2009.
- ^ Tim Teeman (May 15, 2010). "A cure for Aids? Spike Jonze is not joking". Times Online. Retrieved March 18, 2011.
- ^ Laura Van Den Berg (June 22, 2010). "Shedding Light on Shane Jones". Retrieved March 18, 2011.
- ^ Meredith Deliso (April 27, 2010). "Ray Tintori is only 26 years old — and he gets a retrospective?". New York Post. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
- ^ Mekado Murphy (November 28, 2012). "Behind the Camera: The Beasts of 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'". The New York Times. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ Dominic Patten (May 9, 2013). "Sundance Institute Announces Directors & Screenwriter Fellows". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ Rene Rodriguez (December 13, 2014). "Borscht movie fest spurs a filmmaking boom in South Florida". Miami Herald. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Creating Cutting-Edge Sci-Fi with Analog Effects | The Process". Video. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- ^ Robert Goldrich (May 11, 2016). "Director Ray Tintori of m ss ng p eces Teams With MPC On Tilt Brush Trailer". Retrieved May 15, 2016.
- The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (May 9, 2017). "The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announces Winners of the 38th Annual Sports Emmy Awards"(PDF). Retrieved May 10, 2017.
- ^ "IMDb". IMDb.
- ^ Steven Gottlieb (November 4, 2013). "Lindsay Stirling "Crystallize (YouTube Music Awards version)" (Ray Tintori, dir.)". Video Static. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
- ^ David Layde (June 12, 2018). "Watch: Arcade Fire Have Released A Bizarre New Video For Chemistry!". Radio Nova. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
External links
- Ray Tintori official site
- Ray Tintori at IMDb
- Ray Tintori on Clipland
- Jettison Your Loved Ones Video
- Death to the Tinman Video
- Partizan representation for commercials and music videos.