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.
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.
In 2012 Michael Haussman's most art exhibition, Gravity, premiered at Los Angeles Pacific Design Center. 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.
Awards
Best Short Film, "The Audition", Byron Bay International Film Festival
Best Foreign Film, "The Audition", NYC Downtown Short Film Festival
Best Dance Video, "Do It Again" by The Chemical Brothers at the MTV Video Music Award Japan
Best Electronic Video, "Do It Again" by The Chemical Brothers at the MVPA Awards
Best Music Video, "La Tortura" (Alejandro Sanz and Shakira), MTV Latin America Video Music Awards (see La Tortura#Accolades)
Best Music Video by Female Artist, "Verás" (Madonna), MTV Latino Award
Best Music Video by Female Artist, "Take a Bow" by Madonna, MTV Video Music Awards
Excellence in Music Video "Take a Bow" by Madonna, AICP Awards Museum of Modern Art
Best Short Film, "Abandoned 58", Berlin International Film Festival
Filmography
Television
Do Not Disturb (2019) – creator, writer, showrunner, director, producer
Making the video TV series
Madonna: No Bull! The Making of "Take a Bow"
Chris Cornell – "You Know My Name"
Jennifer Lopez – "Qué Hiciste"
Justin Timberlake featuring Timbaland – "SexyBack"
Britney Spears – "Someday (I Will Understand)" – Mini Behind The Scenes
Shakira featuring Alejandro Sanz – "La Tortura"