Mark Romanek
{{short description|American director}}
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{{Infobox person
|name = Mark Romanek
|image = Mark Romanek Tokyo Intl Filmfest 2010.jpg
|caption = Romanek in 2010
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|09|18}}
|birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
|education = Ithaca College (BS)
|occupation = Filmmaker, photographer
|years_active = 1985–present
|spouse = {{marriage|Brigette McWilliams
|2005|2022|end=divorced}}
|children = 2
}}
Mark Lee Romanek ({{IPAc-en|r|oʊ|ˈ|m|æ|n|ɪ|k}};{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/3704806|title=NIN: The Making of the "Closer" Video|publisher=Nine Inch Nails|date=March 16, 2009|access-date=April 17, 2020|archive-date=August 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824100353/https://vimeo.com/3704806|url-status=live}} born September 18, 1959) is an American film, music video and commercial director and photographer. He is best known for directing the films One Hour Photo (2002) and Never Let Me Go (2010). Romanek's music videos have come to be regarded as among the best of the medium. They have earned him three Grammy Awards for Best Short Form Music Video and 20 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Direction for Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award
Romanek has also directed episodes for television series such as The Whispers (2015), Vinyl (2016), and Tales from the Loop (2020).
Early life
Mark Lee Romanek was born in Chicago on September 18, 1959,{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/34947|title=Mark Romanek | MoMA|website=Museum of Modern Art|access-date=September 16, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/524812%7C0/Mark-Romanek#overview|title=Mark Romanek - Turner Classic Movies|website=TCM|access-date=September 16, 2024}} the son of Jewish parents Shirlee and Marvin Romanek.{{cite web |url=http://www.ithaca.edu/icq/2003v1/cn/cn2image.htm |title=Ithaca College Quarterly, 2003/No. 1 |publisher=Ithaca.edu |date=April 28, 2003 |access-date=August 23, 2014 |archive-date=September 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926031926/http://www.ithaca.edu/icq/2003v1/cn/cn2image.htm |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://jewishexponent.com/2013/06/04/out-in-the-cold/|title=Out in the Cold – Jewish Exponent|last=dmichaels|date=June 4, 2013|access-date=July 23, 2018|archive-date=June 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630104940/http://jewishexponent.com/2013/06/04/out-in-the-cold/|url-status=live}} He was inspired to become a filmmaker by seeing Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as a child.[http://www.markromanek.com/press/hotdog.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060221025707/http://www.markromanek.com/press/hotdog.html|date=February 21, 2006}}[http://www.markromanek.com/press/apple_01.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051212064900/http://www.markromanek.com/press/apple_01.html|date=December 12, 2005}} He experimented with Super 8 mm and 16 mm film as a teenager. He attended New Trier High School, where he studied under Kevin Dole, who was already creating music videos on his own in the mid-1970s, and Peter Kingsbury.
Romanek subsequently attended Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, and graduated from its Roy H. Park School of Communications with a degree in cinema and photography. He served as second assistant director on Brian De Palma's film Home Movies (1979), an autobiographical work conceived as an exercise for De Palma's students at Sarah Lawrence College, where he was once a student himself. Romanek met actor Keith Gordon, who played De Palma's alter ego, on the set of the film; Gordon later remembered Romanek's entrance into film production:
{{cquote|I actually met a lot of people who became important in my life, but Mark [was] one of the people who was really huge. Mark wasn't even officially one of the students in the class. Mark was kind of like me{{emdash}}he was a film geek. He was from Chicago. And he had followed Brian around on the set of The Fury and gotten a job as a production assistant on that movie. And when he heard that Brian was doing this project, he basically contacted him and said, "Listen, can I come to New York and basically be like one of the students, even though I'm not technically in the class?" And Brian said, "Fine." So Mark became the second assistant director on the film. And he and I just hit it off pretty quickly. We had a similar passion for Stanley Kubrick. He showed me his short films, which I thought were really good and showed a lot of visual flair.{{cite magazine|last=Tonguette|first=Peter|url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2004/feature-articles/keith_gordon/|title=Keith Gordon on Keith Gordon, Part One: From Actor to Director|magazine=Senses of Cinema|date=October 2004}}}}
Career
=Music videos=
After a few years writing screenplays, Romanek focused on music videos and signed on with Satellite Films, a division of Propaganda Films.{{fact|date=March 2025}} One of his notable videos was for the Nine Inch Nails song "Closer". Its critical acclaim was only matched by its controversy, with many accusing the video as being disturbing and demonic.{{fact|date=March 2025}} Romanek worked again with Nine Inch Nails for the song "The Perfect Drug".{{fact|date=March 2025}}
Romanek directed the music videos for David Bowie's 1993 singles "Jump They Say" and "Black Tie White Noise".{{cite book |last=Pegg |first=Nicholas |title=The Complete David Bowie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqFkDQAAQBAJ |publisher=Titan Books |location=London |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-78565-365-0 |edition=Revised and Updated |pages=39–40, 144–145}}
Romanek was given his first Grammy Award for Best Short Form Video in 1996 for "Scream", a collaboration between the pop superstar siblings Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. The video, which cost $7 million to make, is cited as one of the most expensive ever made.{{fact|date=March 2025}} Romanek won his second Grammy two years later, again with Janet Jackson, for her video "Got 'til It's Gone". In 2002, Romanek shot a video for Audioslave's "Cochise" in which the band performed in the midst of a prolonged pyrotechnic display of the intensity usually seen only during fireworks finale. The explosions were so loud during the night shoot in the San Fernando Valley that local police received over five hundreds of calls from residents because of the noise.{{cite podcast|author1=Higgins, Emma|author2=Lester, Jason|url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/1yfxepCTwPGwBF4KuweNTh|title=Mark Romanek {{!}} The Directors Series|publisher=ARTchitects: the architects of ART|date=February 11, 2025|access-date=March 31, 2025}}
Romanek's 2002 music video for Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" was nominated for seven VMAs, winning one for cinematography, and also won Romanek his third Grammy.{{fact|date=March 2025}} The song expresses self-loathing and the futility of worldly accomplishments; this content took on a new poignancy when sung by Cash near the end of his life. The song expresses self-loathing and the futility of worldly accomplishments; this content took on a new poignancy when sung by Cash near the end of his life, quietly performing in his memorabilia-filled home, with shots of the flood-ravaged "House of Cash" museum and archival shots of a younger, cockier Cash edited in.
Other Romanek videos that have received accolades and awards include the VMA winners "Free Your Mind" (En Vogue), "Are You Gonna Go My Way" (Lenny Kravitz), "Rain" (Madonna), "Devil's Haircut" (Beck), "99 Problems" (Jay-Z), and "Criminal" (Fiona Apple). In 1997, Romanek received the VMA Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for his contribution to the medium. Two of his music videos, "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails and "Bedtime Story" by Madonna, have been made part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.{{fact|date=March 2025}}
In a 2013 interview with IndieWire, Romanek responded to the question of whether he would direct another music video:
{{cquote|I'm kind of over it. I think I made about 100 music videos or more and that was a young man's challenge. I'm still a rabid music fan and I have ideas for music videos once in a while, but it's just not my focus. I have two children and a wife and a mortgage, if you want to be a filmmaker you need to be paying for your life some way. I can't make a film every five years and send my kids to a nice school.{{cite web|last=Jagernauth|first=Kevin|title=Interview: Mark Romanek Talks Making 'One Hour Photo,' What Happened With 'Cinderella' & What Might Be Up Next|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2013/05/interview-mark-romanek-talks-making-one-hour-photo-what-happened-with-cinderella-what-might-be-up-next-98463/|website=IndieWire|date=May 7, 2013|access-date=April 26, 2023|archive-date=January 25, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125055402/https://www.indiewire.com/2013/05/interview-mark-romanek-talks-making-one-hour-photo-what-happened-with-cinderella-what-might-be-up-next-98463/|url-status=live}}}}
Despite this, Romanek returned to music video directing with Jay-Z's performance art piece "Picasso Baby", which aired on HBO on August 2, 2013. The video was shot inside the Pace Gallery in New York and featured a group of personalities from the world of art, including Marina Abramović, whose 2010 performance art work "The Artist is Present" inspired the video.{{cite web |last=Buchanan |first=Kyle |url=http://www.vulture.com/m/2013/08/jay-z-picasso-baby-video-mark-romanek-hbo.html |title=The Inside Story of Jay Z's 'Picasso Baby' Video |publisher=Vulture |date=August 19, 2014 |access-date=August 23, 2014 |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721211620/https://www.vulture.com/2013/08/jay-z-picasso-baby-video-mark-romanek-hbo.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web|author=JAY Z's Life+Times |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMG2oNqBy-Y# | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803055616/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMG2oNqBy-Y&gl=US&hl=en| archive-date=August 3, 2013 | url-status=dead|title=JAY Z "Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film" – YouTube |publisher=M.youtube.com |date=August 2, 2013 |access-date=August 23, 2014}} This marked Romanek's first music video in eight years, his last being Coldplay's video for "Speed of Sound" in 2005.
Romanek then directed "Filthy" by Justin Timberlake and "Rescue Me" by Thirty Seconds to Mars, which both premiered in 2018.{{fact|date=March 2025}}
In 2022, Romanek directed a 180-degree virtual reality concert for Foo Fighters, featuring a song by the group never before played.{{cite web|last=Chan|first=J. Clara|title=Foo Fighters to Perform VR Concert After Super Bowl|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/foo-fighters-super-bowl-meta-quest-vr-1235088151/|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=February 7, 2022|access-date=January 12, 2023|archive-date=January 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124160029/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/foo-fighters-super-bowl-meta-quest-vr-1235088151/|url-status=live}}
=Film and TV=
File:Mark Romanek and Andrew Garfield.jpg at a screening of Never Let Me Go at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival]]
Romanek's first film, Static (1985), followed a man claiming to have invented a television set capable of showing a live picture of Heaven. The film led to his first music video job, but he later disowned it and called it an "embarrassing bit of juvenilia".{{cite web|url=https://marksalisbury.blogspot.com/2010/09/mark-romanek-on-his-debut-movie-static.html|title=Mark Romanek on his debut movie Static|date=September 14, 2010}}
In 2002, Romanek wrote and directed his second feature film, One Hour Photo, starring Robin Williams as a department store photo processor who becomes obsessed with a local family through the photographs they bring to him to be developed. The film was only a moderate hit, but still established Romanek as a director. Rumors spread that the studio, Fox Searchlight, had forced changes on Romanek that seriously altered the film from how he had intended it. He has dismissed this story, however, stating that there never was a director's cut and that the studio did not exercise any editorial control.{{cite web|last=Hochman|first=David|title=FILM; A Pop Image Maker Ponders the Snapshot|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/movies/film-a-pop-image-maker-ponders-the-snapshot.html|website=The New York Times|date=August 18, 2002|access-date=January 11, 2023|archive-date=January 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124160032/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/movies/film-a-pop-image-maker-ponders-the-snapshot.html|url-status=live}}
Romanek had hoped to follow the film with an adaptation of Philip Gourevitch's A Cold Case which was to star Tom Hanks as chief investigator Andy Rosenzweig. The film went into development hell due to scheduling conflicts and issues with rights.{{cite web|last=Dang|first=Simon|title=Mark Romanek Still Hopes To Make 'A Cold Case,' Talks 'Parking Ticket' With Ben Stiller; New 'Never Let Me Go' Trailer|url=https://theplaylist.net/mark-romanek-still-hopes-to-make-cold-20100916/|website=ThePlaylist.net|date=February 16, 2010|access-date=October 15, 2022|archive-date=October 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015161648/https://theplaylist.net/mark-romanek-still-hopes-to-make-cold-20100916/|url-status=live}} In 2013, Romanek said he still hoped to make the film someday: "The character in the film is a bit older and I think someday, in the next eight years or something, maybe it'll be the right time to do [it]."
In 2008, after Romanek left as the director of The Wolfman due to creative differences, he accepted the offer to work on Never Let Me Go.{{Cite news|author=Cybergosh|title=Mark Romanek Will Never Let It Go|url=http://movieblog.ugo.com/movies/mark-romanek-will-never-let-it-go|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120703040342/http://movieblog.ugo.com/movies/mark-romanek-will-never-let-it-go|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 3, 2012|work=Movie Blog|date=December 18, 2008|access-date=May 11, 2009}} Romanek was glad to get the opportunity to shoot the film, saying "From the moment I finished the novel, it became my dream to film it. [Kazuo] Ishiguro's conception is so daring, so eerie and beautiful. Alex Garland's adaptation is sensitive and precise. The cast is perfect, the crew superb."{{Cite news|author=Brad Brevet|title=Mark Romanek's 'Never Let Me Go' Gains Four New Names as Filming Begins in the UK|url=http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/mark-romaneks-never-let-me-go-gains-four-new-names-as-filming-begins-in-the-uk|work=RopeofSilicon.com|date=April 14, 2009|access-date=July 8, 2009|archive-date=July 21, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721231502/http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/mark-romaneks-never-let-me-go-gains-four-new-names-as-filming-begins-in-the-uk|url-status=live}} The film was released in 2010 to mostly positive reviews and was the 28th highest-grossing film at the box office for that week.
Throughout the 2010s, Romanek circled numerous projects that never materialized under his direction, including a remake of The Boston Strangler,{{cite web|last=Child|first=Ben|title=Mark Romanek in talks to direct Boston Strangler movie|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/09/mark-romanek-boston-strangler-movie-casey-affleck|website=The Guardian|date=January 9, 2014|access-date=October 15, 2022|archive-date=October 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015161647/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/09/mark-romanek-boston-strangler-movie-casey-affleck|url-status=live}} the Shining prequel The Overlook Hotel,{{cite web|last=Kit|first=Borys|title='Shining' Prequel 'Overlook Hotel' Lands Director|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/shining-prequel-overlook-hotel-lands-719622/|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=July 18, 2014|access-date=September 6, 2023}} the David Mamet-penned conspiracy thriller Blackbird,{{cite web|last=Allen|first=Clark|title={TB EXCLUSIVE} Mark Romanek Will Direct Cate Blanchett In "Blackbird"|url=https://www.tracking-board.com/tb-exclusive-mark-romanek-will-direct-cate-blanchett-in-blackbird/|website=The Tracking Board|date=January 14, 2015|access-date=October 15, 2022}} and a film about the Norco shootout,{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/2015/film/news/north-corona-bank-shootout-movie-mark-romanek-1201519935/|title= North Corona Bank Shootout Movie in the Works With Director Mark Romanek|date= June 15, 2015|access-date= April 6, 2022|first= Dave|last= McNary|work= Variety|archive-date= April 6, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220406214430/https://variety.com/2015/film/news/north-corona-bank-shootout-movie-mark-romanek-1201519935/|url-status= live}} amongst others. "I wish I had made ten films by now," Romanek said in 2020. "It's not for lack of trying... I have a lot of movies that I worked on that didn't come together."{{cite web|last=Perez|first=Rodrigo|title='Tales From The Loop': Mark Romanek Discusses Krzysztof Kieslowski & Arthouse Sensibilities Applied To The 'Twilight Zone' [Interview]|url=https://theplaylist.net/tales-loop-director-mark-romanek-interview-20200421/|website=ThePlaylist.net|date=April 21, 2020|access-date=January 11, 2023|archive-date=January 12, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112231335/https://theplaylist.net/tales-loop-director-mark-romanek-interview-20200421/|url-status=live}} Romanek has however directed several episodes for television, including the HBO series Vinyl and the Amazon Prime series Tales from the Loop, which he also executive produced.
In 2021, it was reported that Romanek would direct the horror film Mother Land which would have been his first feature film in over a decade.{{cite web|last=Fleming|first=Mike Jr.|title=Director Mark Romanek Returns To Movies With 'Mother Land' At Lionsgate & 21 Laps|url=https://deadline.com/2021/04/mark-romanek-directs-mother-land-lionsgate-21-laps-1234728665/|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=April 6, 2021|access-date=October 15, 2022|archive-date=April 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210406194248/https://deadline.com/2021/04/mark-romanek-directs-mother-land-lionsgate-21-laps-1234728665/|url-status=live}} In December of the following year, Romanek revealed that he was no longer attached to it and that he had been replaced as director by Alexandre Aja.{{cite web|last=Ruimy|first=Jordan|title=Mark Romanek No Longer Directing 'Mother Land'|url=https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2022/12/euo9ksdov56v839gynaq0svfxmff71|website=World of Reel|date=December 28, 2022|access-date=January 11, 2023|archive-date=December 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228210049/https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2022/12/euo9ksdov56v839gynaq0svfxmff71|url-status=live}}
In addition to continuing work in advertising, in the 2020s, Romanek began experimenting with AI, using it as a creative outlet to bounce around concepts or ideas he was pondering.{{cite web|last=Nudd|first=Tim|url=https://adage.com/article/creativity/mark-romanek-starting-new-chapter-commercial-directing-superprime-films/2539206/|title=Mark Romanek on starting a new chapter in commercial directing at Superprime Films|website=Ad Age|date=February 1, 2024|access-date=April 18, 2025}} As of 2025, Romanek was said to be in the midst of planning a film directly conceived as a result of his many unproduced projects; with the story itself tackling the subject of "unfinished art". He was inspired to write it upon attending an exhibition that showcased unfinished pieces of artwork.
=Photography=
Romanek has also been recognized for his photography skills, having taken pictures of various celebrities he befriended throughout his career. They include Kanye West, Paul McCartney, Lenny Kravitz, Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger, Robin Williams, Harmony Korine, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, and Jay-Z.{{cite web|title=Photographers in Focus: Mark Romanek|url=https://www.nowness.com/story/mark-romanek|website=Nowness|date=March 30, 2017|access-date=January 12, 2023|archive-date=January 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124160034/https://www.nowness.com/story/mark-romanek|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Never Let Me Go Director Mark Romanek on How to Take the Perfect iPhone Photo|url=https://www.vulture.com/2010/09/mark_romanek_on_never_let_me_g.html|website=Vulture|date=September 24, 2010|access-date=January 12, 2023|archive-date=January 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124160034/https://www.vulture.com/2010/09/mark_romanek_on_never_let_me_g.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Rachel Portman Scoring Never Let Me Go, Mark Romanek Photographs Ben Stiller|url=https://www.slashfilm.com/507811/rachel-portman-scoring-never-let-me-go-mark-romanek-photographs-ben-stiller/|website=/Film|date=February 24, 2010|access-date=January 12, 2023|archive-date=January 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124160034/https://www.slashfilm.com/507811/rachel-portman-scoring-never-let-me-go-mark-romanek-photographs-ben-stiller/|url-status=live}} Romanek has said that while the photographs are all of famous people, he still considers them personal.{{cite video|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=KFs4IYk-xL8&si=fwIpF9pBn3edUom4|title=Photographers in Focus: Mark Romanek|publisher=Nowness|via=YouTube|date=April 8, 2017|access-date=March 31, 2025}}
In 2017, thirty of Romanek's photographs were exhibited at the French retailer Colette for the series entitled SNAPSHOTS.{{cite web|title=Filmmaker Mark Romanek's Photos of Kanye West, Paul McCartney and More Available Now at colette|url=https://hypebeast.com/2017/1/mark-romanek-snapshots-colette|website=Hypebeast|date=January 9, 2017|access-date=January 12, 2023|archive-date=January 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124160034/https://hypebeast.com/2017/1/mark-romanek-snapshots-colette|url-status=live}}
Personal life
Romanek resides in Los Angeles.{{cite web|title=We Go Inside Brigette and Mark Romanek's Family Home in Los Angeles|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/brigette-and-mark-romanek-family-home-los-angeles|website=Architectural Digest|date=September 8, 2016|access-date=January 11, 2022|archive-date=January 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124102009/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/brigette-and-mark-romanek-family-home-los-angeles|url-status=live}} He married singer Brigette McWilliams in 2005, and they had two daughters together before divorcing in 2022.{{cite web|title=ROMANEK, BRIGETTE VS ROMANEK, MARK|url=https://unicourt.com/case/ca-la23-romanek-brigette-vs-romanek-mark-823737|website=UniCourt.com|date=March 16, 2022|access-date=January 11, 2022|archive-date=January 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124160036/https://unicourt.com/case/ca-la23-romanek-brigette-vs-romanek-mark-823737|url-status=live}}
Influences
In 2012, Romanek participated in the Sight & Sound film polls. Held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary directors were asked to select ten films of their choice. Romanek gave the following ten, in alphabetical order:{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/1055|title=Mark Romanek | BFI|access-date=2022-12-15|archive-date=2022-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215171203/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/1055|url-status=live}}
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- 8½ (Italy, 1963)
- Andrei Rublev (Soviet Union, 1966)
- Apocalypse Now (USA, 1979)
- Barry Lyndon (UK/USA, 1975)
- Citizen Kane (USA, 1941)
- Days of Heaven (USA, 1978)
- Fanny and Alexander (Sweden/France, 1982)
- The Godfather Part II (USA, 1974)
- Heaven's Gate (USA, 1980)
- Lawrence of Arabia (UK/USA, 1962)
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Filmography
{{main|Mark Romanek videography}}
=Film=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Director ! Writer |
|---|
| 1985
| Static | {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} |
| 2002
| {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} |
| 2010
| {{Yes}} | {{No}} |
=Television=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Director ! Executive ! Notes |
|---|
| 2011
| {{Yes}} | {{No}} |Unaired pilot |
| 2015
| {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} |Episode: "X Marks the Spot" |
| 2016
| Vinyl | {{Yes}} | {{No}} |Episode: "Whispered Secrets" |
| 2020
| {{Yes}} | {{Yes}} |Episode: "Loop" |
=Unrealized projects=
Further reading
- Henry Keazor, Thorsten Wübbena: [http://www.vttrs.de Video Thrills The Radio Star. Musikvideos: Geschichte, Themen, Analysen]. Bielefeld 2005, p. 335ss., p. 344ss.
- "'(...) an unforgettable emotional impact' – Jay-Z/Mark Romanek: '99 Problems'", in: Klaus Herding/Antje Krause Wahl (Eds.), Wie sich Gefühle Ausdruck verschaffen – Emotionen in Nahsicht, Taunusstein: Driesen 2007, p. 321 – 342
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|nm0738796|Mark Romanek}}
- {{YouTube|uleoBd9Tyuc|Mark Romanek Music Video Montage - Nino Del Padre}}
- {{YouTube|KFs4IYk-xL8|Photographers in Focus: Mark Romanek}}
- [http://vimeo.com/3704806/ Mark Romanek Interview] about the making of Nine Inch Nails Video "Closer"
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20030604042134/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1470173/20030226/index.jhtml?headlines=true Johnny Cash's "Hurt" Delves Into Life of Former Hell-Raiser], MTV VMA Lens Recap
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20041020184951/http://www.mtv.com/news/vma/2004/article.jhtml?id=1490584 Jay-Z Has The Guts To Get "Shot," Rick Rubin Demands To Look Cool], MTV VMA Lens Recap. Describes the concept of Mark Romanek's first hip-hop video, Jay-Z's "99 Problems."
- [https://vimeo.com/19307956 Artist Series: Mark Romanek], An interview with Romanek in short-film format by Hillman Curtis.
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