1. Pierre Bismuth is a French artist and filmmaker based in Brussels.
10 Facts About Pierre Bismuth
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Pierre Bismuth's work uses a variety of media and materials, including painting, sculpture, collage, video, architecture, performance, music, and film.
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Pierre Bismuth is best known for being among the authors of the story for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay alongside Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman.
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Pierre Bismuth was originally a visual communication student at les Arts Decoratifs.
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Pierre Bismuth met Francois Miehe there, one of his teachers, with whom he subsequently collaborated on several projects.
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In Replaced by the Same, Pierre Bismuth plays on the idea of substituting one thing by its double: for each photograph in this series, elements taken from duplicates are glued on exactly the same place as they were on the originals.
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Pierre Bismuth often plays with the film industry imagery, as in his Jungle Book Project where he uses the different translations of the famous Disney film to create a new Babel like environnement.
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Pierre Bismuth is known for following the movement of actors and actresses hands during a full movie and reproducing these as drawings.
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Pierre Bismuth notably collaborated with Michel Gondry, Jerome Bel, Jonathan Monk, Dessislava Dimova, Diego Perone, Barbara Visser, Angus Fairhurst, Cory Arcangel, Cyprien Gaillard, Mathias Faldbakken or Joe Strummer.
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Pierre Bismuth has among others exhibited at the Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris, at the Lisson Gallery in London, at Sonia Rosso in Turin, at Roger Pailhas in Marseille and at Mary Boone in New-York.