Michael Haussman • Director
Michael Haussman is a director, writer and artist living in Rome, Italy.
His internationally acclaimed commercials have won numerous awards and are featured in advertising books and trade journals. They include the last Levis campaign, featuring Levis KNOCKOUT and ONION PEEL as well as campaigns for Absolut, BMW, Yves Saint Laurent, Guinness, Adidas, Ray-Ban, Volkswagen, Replay Jeans, and Coca-Cola.
Michael Haussman has directed music videos for such artists as JustinTimberlake, Madonna, Chemical Brothers, Kanye West, Usher, Shakira, Chris Cornell, Jennifer Lopez, Eric Clapton, and B.B King. His videos have won several MTV and VH1 awards, including MTV Music Video Of TheYear and the prestigious Museum Of Modern Art award.
Michael Haussman wrote and directed the experimental film, RHINOCEROS HUNTING IN BUDAPEST, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Following, he completed a feature-length documentary about two matadors and the world of bullfighting, entitled THE LAST SERIOUS THING.
Michael completed print campaigns for Phillips, Replay Jeans, Lancôme Tresor and the worldwide print and billboard campaign for Martini. His photographic interest in diverse cultures is displayed in WHERE THEY PLAY, a book documenting football (soccer) fields from around the world, revealing each culture's interpretation of a field within their environment– from Guatemala, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, to Morocco, Italy, England, etc.
As a painter his solo art show 'Naturales', featuring large-scale matador and bull paintings, in ink on paper, premiered at the Desoto gallery in Los Angeles, the New York Scope Art Fair,and Group Showing in Los Angeles. 'Naturales' also opened in Rome. Haussman has an art show this October called Rome: And the Death of a Ladies Man, the story of Rome's Last Gigolo, told through nine high definition video sequences mostly filmed at 4,000 frames per second.
Michael Haussman is currently in pre-production, as writer and director, on the film ELEVEN MINUTES, which he adapted from the Paulo Coehlo novel of the same title. Zoe Saldana, Mickey Rourke, and Vincent Cassell are attached to star. Gianni Nunarri, Mark Canton are Anna Gross are producers.