Adam Egypt Mortimer

After graduating Columbia University, I began my career as a musician and a graphic designer based in New York. I was a co-founder of the Hinthouse, a music and art collective operating out of a three story building in Harlem. There I began directing film projects in collaboration with experimental group The No-Neck Blues Band. I am in the process of finishing a DVD titled “At 6 AM, We Become the Police,” which is a kind of science fiction, ecstatic dream-coverage of their career. Excerpts from this project have been screened at several arts and music festivals; in May 2009 the Palais Beaux-Arts in Brussels will screen the completed film.

At the beginning of the millennium, I sold a show to MTV Animation called Conspiracy 101. This led to more producing and writing, and soon I sold a film treatment to Walden Media — I’m currently co-producing “Biblionauts” with Don Murphy + Susan Montford’s Angry Films. It will be a wild adventure film reminiscent of Time Bandits.

While living in New York, I worked for MTV Networks as a freelance producer. There I honed my filmmaking skills, directing, producing, and editing live action and animated promos and interstitials for Nickelodeon, Spike, and VH1.

Immediately after I moved to Los Angeles in October ‘06, 20th Century Fox hired me to make a series of horror shorts for their Fox Atomic label, and Warner Brothers invited me to shoot music videos.

I describe my style and my interests as a kind of mid-air plane collision, combining a love for the experimental and a desire to entertain; a curiosity about horror and an interest in beauty and fashion; an obsession with high concept playgrounds and a fascination with extreme emotional relationships.

(photo taken on location at the Konessor Factory in Warsaw, Poland)