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LAURI FAGGIONI is an artist and filmmaker who founded celebrated East Village shop Lake in NYC in 2001, where she showcased her textile artwork and fabric companions. From there she gained recognition for her work as a Production Designer and Prop-Maker for Michel Gondry earning MTV and MVPA awards for music videos for Steriogram - Walkie Talkie Man and Gary Jules - Mad World, which saw her expand into choreography.
She has collaborated on numerous music videos and commercials with directors Johan Renck, The Pelorian Brothers, and Ellen von Unwerth, among others. Her commercial clients include such brands as H&M, Escada, Estee Lauder and Talk Talk.
She created and conceived of the animals and accessories for the film Science of Sleep. Her feature Production Design work includes Dave Chappells Block Party directed by Gondry, Downloading Nancy directed by Renck, and the upcoming Untitled Keith Richards documentary, directed by Johnny Depp. Recently she designed the short film As Told to God Thyself directed by the Ummah Chroma collective. - Terence Nance, Bradford Young, Jenn Nkiru, Marc Thomas and Kazi Washington. She went on to design a year long exhibit with the collective at the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam in collaboration with IFFR entitled Spirit Strategies on Raising Free Black Children.
In 2017, Lauri co-founded Little Hour Films, an animation company based in Mexico City with Zulu González and Javier Velázquez, creating multiple animations for commercials and features.
Lauri's directorial debut for Devendra Banhart's A Ribbon premiered at New York's Museum of Modern Art, winning Best Animated Video and earning her a Best New Director nomination at the MVPA awards. She has since directed films for Bright Eyes, Iron And Wine, Monsters Of Folk, Alison Sudol and Blonde Redhead.
Her documentary film, Wykoff Place, executive produced by Ridley Scott, won the jury award for Best Documentary at both the Los Angeles Short Film Festival and the St. Louis International Film Festival. She is currently filming her documentary A Year in Color throughout Central and South America.
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