08-11-2012

MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG HONORED WITH MUSIC VIDEO PIONEER AWARD AT PLUS CAMERIMAGE

    It is our great pleasure to inform that this year the special honorary award for the achievement in music videos will go to Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who is widely known for some of the first music videos ever made including promos for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Bryan Ferry, Whitney Houston and The Who. The laureate will attend the festival to personally collect Plus Camerimage Music Video Pioneer Award and will chair the Jury of the Music Videos Competition.

    Michael will also meet with the audience and present his work in our programme “Music Videos: The Masterclass Series” and show his acclaimed documentary The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus, courtesy of ABKCO films.

    A pioneer in music video, Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed clips for The Rolling Stones for fifteen years. He also worked with The Who and The Beatles, and he directed their final film Let It Be. He directed the award-winning Graceland with Paul Simon, shot in Zimbabwe.

    On stage, Mr. Lindsay-Hogg directed the original productions of Agnes Of God on Broadway, and The Normal Heart at the Public Theatre in New York. He earned a Tony Nomination for Best Director with Whose Life Is It Anyway?

    Mr. Lindsay-Hogg’s film and television credits include Tom Stoppard’s Professional Foul, and Graham Greene’s Dr. Fisher Of Geneva as well as Brideshead Revisited (co-director), all of which earned him recognition as Best Director by BAFTA. He also directed Running Mates with Diane Keaton and Ed Harris for HBO. Mr. Lindsay-Hogg wrote and directed The Object Of Beauty, starring John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell which won Best Picture and Best Director awards at the Cairo International Film Festival. Frankie Starlight with Anne Parillaud, Gabriel Byrne and Matt Dillon was released by Fine Line in 1995. It was voted by Jeffrey Lyons and Siskel & Ebert as one of their Top 10 pictures of the year.

    In 1996, The New York Film Festival chose Mr. Lindsay-Hogg’s never before seen The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus, courtesy of ABKCO films, as a Special Event for the festival. His Polygram film Guy, starring Vincent D’Onofrio was released at the end of 1997, and was named one of the year’s Ten Best by LA Weekly.

    His film of Waiting For Godot was part of the Beckett series which won the award for Best TV Drama on the prestigious British arts program The South Bank Show.

    We are proud to have Michael Lindsay-Hogg among our special guests this year, and we are happy to inform that he will meet with Plus Camerimage attendees to present and talk about his work in the field of music videos. We also invite to a special screening of The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus, courtesy of ABKCO films.


    SELECTED MUSIC VIDEOS AND OTHER WORK:

    Music videos:

    • The Beatles 'Paperback Writer'
    • The Beatles ‘Rain'
    • The Beatles 'Hey Jude'
    • The Beatles 'Revolution'
    • The Rolling Stones 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' (make-up version), courtesy of ABKCO films
    • The Rolling Stones ‘Child of the Moon', courtesy of ABKCO films
    • The Who 'Happy Jack'
    • The Who 'Join Together'
    • Whitney Houston "You Give Good Love"
    • Elton John "Ego"

    Film:

    • Waiting For Godot (2001), cin. Seamus Deasy
    • Guy (1997) cin. Arturo Smith
    • Frankie Starlight (1995) cin. Paul Laufer
    • The Object Of Beauty (1991) cin. David Watkin
    • Nasty Habits (1977) cin. Douglas Slocombe
    • Let It Be (1970) cin. Tony Richmond

    Music:

    • Simon And Garfunkel Concert In Central Park (1982)
    • Paul Simon's Graceland (1987)
    • Neil Young in Berlin (1983)
    • The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus, courtesy of ABKCO films (1968) cin. Anthony B. Richmond

    Films For Television:

    • Two Of Us (2000) cin. Miroslaw Baszak
    • Alone (1997) cin. Jeff Jur
    • Running Mates (1992) cin. Jeff Jur
    • The Habitation Of Dragons (1992) cin. Paul Laufer

    Stage:

    • The White Devil
    • The Millionairess
    • Whose Life Is It Anyway?
    • Agnes Of God
    • The Normal Heart


    20th Plus Camerimage will be held in Bydgoszcz from the 24th Nov through 1st Dec
    under the Honorary Patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski