Michael Haussman

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Michael Haussman is an American director, writer, and artist, living in Rome, Italy.

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Career

Michael Haussman's music videos have won several awards, including six MTV Video Music Awards and a Museum of Modern Art Award.[ citation needed ]

Past films include: Rhinoceros Hunting In Budapest, starring Nick Cave, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; Blind Horizon, starring Sam Shepard; The Unsinkable Henry Morgan, which also premiered at Sundance Film Festival; and The Audition, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival.

Michael Haussman's most recent[ when? ] art exhibition, Gravity, premiered at Los Angeles Pacific Design Center. [1] Gravity was presented at Berlin Art Week, courtesy of Iconoclast Galleries. It was featured in 2018 at Cannes, InOut Art Exhibition. As a painter, Haussman's solo art show Naturales, featuring large-scale matador and bull paintings (ink on paper), premiered at the Desoto gallery in Los Angeles and New York Scope Art Fair.

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Filmography

Films – Director

Films – Writer

Films – Producer

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