Daniel Askill

Askill was born in Sydney in 1977. He has two brothers: Lorin Askill (a director, editor, photographer and artist) and Jordan Askill (a jewelry designer).{{Cite web|title=The Askill Brothers|url=https://www.wearedore.com/photos/the-askill-brothers/|access-date=2020-11-28|website=DORÉ|language=en-US|archive-date=2 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202000236/https://www.wearedore.com/photos/the-askill-brothers/|url-status=dead}} He initially studied visual communication{{cite web|title=We Have Decided Not To Die Press Kit|url=http://www.wehavedecidednottodie.com/presskit.pdf|accessdate=7 October 2011}} at the University of Technology Sydney in 1997{{cite web|title=Where&What + Meet The Sydney Creatives Behind Collider|url=http://www.thegaleries.com/blog/article/wherewhat-meet-the-sydney-creatives-behind-collider|work=The Galeries Blog|publisher=The Galeries|accessdate=7 October 2011}} before moving to London, studying at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 1999.{{cite web|last=Georgiou|first=Oliver|title=Science of Movement|url=http://www.theblackmail.com.au/issue/art/science-of-movement/|publisher=The Blackmail...|accessdate=7 October 2011}}

Working freelance in London, he was involved in design work and film direction. Also during his time in London, he engaged in visual design work for Alexander McQueen.{{cite web|title=Daniel Askill: Dillinger Magazine|url=http://www.dillinger.fr/post/613755153/daniel-askill-born-in-sydney-in-1977-daniel|publisher=Dillinger Magazine|accessdate=9 October 2011}}

In 2001, Askill returned to Sydney and founded multimedia production and design studio Collider with his colleagues Andrew van der Westhuyzen and Sam Zalaiskalns. The studio has since expanded and presently has a large roster of staff and directors.

In addition to his background in film and video, Askill also has a background in music composition and performance.{{cite news|title=Daniel Askill's Modern Worship|url=http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s3207903.htm|accessdate=7 October 2011|newspaper=ABC Arts Online|date=4 May 2011}} He also recorded an album with shakuhachi player Riley Lee when he was 19.{{cite web|title=Australian Music Centre – Riley Lee Discography Page|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/lee-riley|publisher=Australian Music Centre|accessdate=9 October 2011}} With Collider, Askill directed short films, fashion films and commercials for companies including Sony, Dior Homme and Xbox.

In 2003, Askill wrote and directed the critically acclaimed,{{cite news|last=Catsoullis|first=Jeanette|title=Alternatives to the Multiplex in 'The World According to Shorts'|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2006/07/21/movies/21shor.html?scp=2&sq=daniel%20askill%20we%20have%20decided%20not%20to%20die&st=cse|accessdate=7 October 2011|newspaper=New York Times|date=21 July 2006}} surreal short film We Have Decided Not To Die. Exhibited in various international film festivals, the film won prizes at the Clermont-Ferrand festival in France,{{cite web|last=Mair|first=Tracey|title=Australian success at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France|url=http://afcarchive.screenaustralia.gov.au/newsandevents/mediarelease/2004/release_271.aspx|publisher=Australian Film Commission Press Releases|accessdate=7 October 2011}} Melbourne International in Australia, Brooklyn International{{cite web|title=Brooklyn Film Festival film details – We Have Decided Not To Die|url=http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=354|accessdate=9 October 2011}} and South by Southwest in the United States.{{cite web|title=Festivals and Awards: International Awards Winners 2004|url=http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/productions/F_A_Success/Recent_Int_Awards04.aspx|publisher=Screen Australia|accessdate=7 October 2011}}{{cite web|title=We Have Decided Not To Die|url=http://www.wehavedecidednottodie.com/}} The work is notable for its portrayal of the human body, ritual and use of visceral special effects. It was described by film critic Susan Shineberg in the Sydney Morning Herald as "a breathtaking, burnished triptych, it evokes a surreal, ritualistic world whose characters appear to float free of space and time".{{cite news|last=Shineberg|first=Susan|title=Ten minutes to die for|url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/12/1076548153494.html?from=storyrhs|accessdate=7 October 2011|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=13 February 2004}}

Along with his video art he has also directed numerous music videos for artists such as Sia,

These New Puritans and Phoenix.{{cite web|title=Update: Phoenix to work with Jordan and Daniel Askill's father, Michael|url=http://www.pedestrian.tv/music/news/update-phoenix-to-work-with-daniel-and-jordan-aski/34996.htm|publisher=Pedestrian.tv|accessdate=7 October 2011}} He directed Phoenix's Rally (2007){{cite web|title=Phoenix – Rally|url=http://collider.com.au/projects/Phoenix_Rally/|work=Collider Projects Page|access-date=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922014936/http://collider.com.au/projects/Phoenix_Rally/|archive-date=22 September 2010|url-status=dead}} and Consolation Prizes (2006){{cite web|title=Phoenix – Consolation Prizes|url=http://collider.com.au/projects/Phoenix_Consolation_Prizes/|work=Collider Project Page|accessdate=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517215236/http://collider.com.au/projects/Phoenix_Consolation_Prizes/|archive-date=17 May 2013|url-status=dead}}

Askill was also commissioned to make films for fashion companies like Ksubi,{{cite web|title=Dazed Digital: Ksubi Kolors Film|date=3 May 2011 |url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/10278/1/exclusive-ksubi-kolors-film|publisher=Dazed Digital|accessdate=9 October 2011}} Another Magazine, Dior{{cite web|title=Farhenheit 32 by Daniel Askill & Hedi Slimane| website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olnA0fdUFaY|accessdate=9 October 2011}} and Acne.{{cite web|title=Askill on Acne for Cruise 11 (video)|url=http://www.thevine.com.au/tv/watch/askill-on-acne-for--cruise-1120101126.aspx|publisher=The Vine|accessdate=9 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820183454/http://www.thevine.com.au/tv/watch/askill-on-acne-for--cruise-1120101126.aspx|archive-date=20 August 2011|url-status=dead}}

In 2009, Askill collaborated with the Sydney Dance Company in its creative work We Unfold. Askill was commissioned to provide video art to screen alongside the work{{cite web|title=We Unfold|url=http://www.sydneydancecompany.com/work/current/we-unfold/|publisher=Sydney Dance Company|access-date=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111212213741/http://www.sydneydancecompany.com/work/current/we-unfold/|archive-date=12 December 2011|url-status=dead}} which was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2010.{{cite news|last=Mackrell|first=Judith|title=Dance finds a perfect partner in Venice|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/jun/07/venice-contemporary-dance-festival|accessdate=7 October 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 June 2010}}

Askill's most recent, solo exhibitions Modern Worship (2011) and Three Rituals (2011) have been exhibited in Los Angeles and Sydney. The works are described as "a meditation on the notion of ritual and how it can be viewed through the eyes of modern culture" and use video installation, photography and sculpture. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2014 he won Best Video, co-directing with Sia Furler, on her music video, "Chandelier" (March 2014).{{Cite web | url = http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2014 | title = 2014 ARIA Awards Winners by Year | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | accessdate = 20 December 2019 }}

• We Have Decided Not to Die (2003)
• [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8520434/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11 Take Flight - The New York Times (2015)]
• Universal Machine (2019)

• Modern Worship (2011)
• Slow Work on a Bright Screen (2010)
• Triptych and Transforming (2010)
• Artefacts from The Fifth Ritual (2009)
• We Unfold (2009)
• Suspending Disbelief (2008)
• Angel (2007)

• David Guetta and Sia – Beautiful People (2025)
• Flume feat. Caroline Polachek – Sirens (2022)
• Lady Gaga – Stupid Love (2020)
• Sia – Rainbow (2017)
• Sia – The Greatest (2016)
• Sia – Cheap Thrills (Performance Edit) (2016)
• Sia – Alive (2016)
• Sia – Big Girls Cry (2015)
• Sia – Elastic Heart (2015)
• Sia – Chandelier (2014)
• These New Puritans – Fragment Two (2013)
• WIM – See You Hurry{{cite web|title=See You Hurry Project Page|url=http://collider.com.au/projects/WIM_See_You_Hurry/|accessdate=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011075401/http://collider.com.au/projects/WIM_See_You_Hurry/|archive-date=11 October 2011|url-status=dead}} (2011)
• These New Puritans – We Want War (2009){{cite web|title=We Want War Project Page|url=http://collider.com.au/projects/These_New_Puritans_We_Want_War/|accessdate=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011015534/http://collider.com.au/projects/These_New_Puritans_We_Want_War/|archive-date=11 October 2011|url-status=dead}}
• Digitalism – Pogo (2007){{cite web|title=Pogo Project Page|url=http://collider.com.au/projects/Digitalism_Pogo/|accessdate=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922092641/http://collider.com.au/projects/Digitalism_Pogo/|archive-date=22 September 2010|url-status=dead}}
• Phoenix – Rally (2007){{cite web|title=Rally Project Page|url=http://collider.com.au/projects/Phoenix_Rally/|accessdate=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922014936/http://collider.com.au/projects/Phoenix_Rally/|archive-date=22 September 2010|url-status=dead}}
• Placebo – Follow the Cops (2006){{cite web|title=Follow the Cops Project Page|url=http://collider.com.au/projects/Placebo_Follow_the_Cops/|accessdate=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922033217/http://collider.com.au/projects/Placebo_Follow_the_Cops/|archive-date=22 September 2010|url-status=dead}}
• Phoenix – Consolation Prizes (2006){{cite web|title=Consolation Prizes Project Page|url=http://collider.com.au/projects/Phoenix_Consolation_Prizes/|accessdate=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517215236/http://collider.com.au/projects/Phoenix_Consolation_Prizes/|archive-date=17 May 2013|url-status=dead}}
• Unkle feat. Ian Brown – Reign (2005){{cite web|title=Reign Project Page|url=http://collider.com.au/projects/Unkle_Reign/|access-date=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922101008/http://collider.com.au/projects/Unkle_Reign/|archive-date=22 September 2010|url-status=dead}}
• Sia – Breathe Me (2004){{cite web|title=Breathe Me Project Page|url=http://collider.com.au/projects/Sia_Breathe_Me/|access-date=7 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111109161008/http://collider.com.au/projects/Sia_Breathe_Me/|archive-date=9 November 2011|url-status=dead}}

Askill has also directed a number of commercials for companies including, Sony, BMW, Dior Homme, and Xbox.

• Sony – New York City Ballet
• Smirnoff – Purity
• BMW – Climate Control
• History Channel – Hero
• Xbox – Faces
• Dior Homme – Jude Law
• Cadillac – Roll
• Airfrance – Swimming Pool
• Lexus – Merge
• Hummer – Chairs
• Panasonic – Olympic Art

• Prism, Los Angeles – Three Rituals – 2011
• Gallery A.S, Sydney – Modern Worship – 2011{{cite web|title=Daniel Askill Modern Worship|url=http://sydney.concreteplayground.com.au/event/18812/daniel-askill-modern-worship.htm|work=Concrete Playground}}
• Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea- Souvenirs from Earth – 2011{{cite web|title=Souvenirs From Earth Artist Biography – Daniel Askill|url=http://www.souvenirsfromearth.tv/artists/maske.php?id=268|accessdate=7 October 2011}}
• Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy – We Unfold – 2010{{cite web|title=Event page – Sydney Dance Company "We Unfold"|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/dance/archive/festival/program/sydney-dance1.html?back=true|work=Venice Biennale Programme|accessdate=10 October 2011}}
• World Expo, Shanghai, China – We Unfold – 2010{{cite news|last=Machalias|first=Helen|title=we unfold {{!}} Sydney Dance Company|url=http://www.australianstage.com.au/201005113485/reviews/canberra/we-unfold-%7C-sydney-dance-company.html|accessdate=7 October 2011|newspaper=Australian Stage|date=11 May 2010}}
• ASVOFF Centre Pompidou, Paris, France- Nocturna – 2010{{cite web|title=ASVOFF 3 Winners|url=http://www.ashadedviewonfashionfilm.com/IMG/pdf/ASVOFF_3_WINNERS.pdf|publisher=ASVOFF|accessdate=10 October 2011|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212353/http://www.ashadedviewonfashionfilm.com/IMG/pdf/ASVOFF_3_WINNERS.pdf|url-status=dead}}
• RAFW, Sydney- Suspending Disbelief – 2009
• Monster Children Gallery, Sydney- Artefacts From The Fifth Ritual – 2009{{cite web|title=Monster Children – Exhibition by Daniel Askill.|url=http://monsterchildren.com/contributors/monster-children/artefacts-from-the-fifth-ritual-an-exhibition-by-daniel-askill/|accessdate=10 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425054457/http://monsterchildren.com/contributors/monster-children/artefacts-from-the-fifth-ritual-an-exhibition-by-daniel-askill/|archive-date=25 April 2012|url-status=dead}}
• Palais de Tokyo, Paris – France Artcurial for Amnesty International – 2008{{cite web|title=artforum.com/news/week=200850|url=http://artforum.com/news/week=200850|work=International News Digest 2008|publisher=ARTFORUM}}
• Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany – Happy Believers – 2006 (group){{cite web|title=Werkleitz Biennale 2006 Programme|url=http://biennale2006.werkleitz.de/html_en/pro_so_askill.html|accessdate=7 October 2011}}
• Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK – onedotzero – 2004{{cite web|title=onedotzero – We Have Decided Not To Die|url=http://www2.onedotzero.com/track.php?id=65&dvd=2810308|accessdate=10 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425054449/http://www2.onedotzero.com/track.php?id=65&dvd=2810308|archive-date=25 April 2012|url-status=dead}}
• ARTSPACE, Sydney, Australia – We Have Decided Not To Die – 2003

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• [http://www.danielaskill.com/ Daniel Askill's homepage]
• [http://collider.com.au/ Collider]
• [http://www.wehavedecidednottodie.com/ We Have Decided Not To Die]
• [http://www.prismla.com/exhibit/three-rituals/ Three Rituals exhibit at Prism LA]{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• [http://www.mrporter.com/intl/journal.mrp?feature=journal_issue7feature7# Interview with Daniel Askill at Mr Porter]
• [http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s3207903.htm ABC Arts Online: Daniel Askill's Modern Worship]

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