Robert Mack
| Robert Mack | |
|---|---|
| Born | Heidelberg, Germany |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | Visual artist and filmmaker |
| 🌐 Website | robertmackart |
Robert Mack is an American visual artist, filmmaker/director and photographer who works in a wide range of media including film, fine art photography, television, video installations, and painting. He is a media consultant for entertainment studios.[citation needed] His artwork has received two museum exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe.
Early life and education
Robert Mack was born in Heidelberg, Germany to a decorated an American father, pilot and plein air painter Matthew Mack,[1] and German mother, Martha Mack. The Mack family moved extensively, living in eighteen homes over a twenty-year period in such places as Japan, Germany and throughout the United States.[citation needed]
After graduating from the University of Maryland with a degree in film, art and media studies, Mack was an artist-in-residence at an open space experimental school near Washington D.C., where he taught photography and film. He also owned and operated the Decci Gallery in Annapolis,[citation needed] Maryland, which exhibited artworks by his father, other painters and Mack himself.[citation needed]
Career
After completing an awards grant for film, Mack was hired by Group W Productions in Baltimore as their primary national documentary producer, working alongside Oprah Winfrey for two years.[citation needed]
In New York City, along with Mark and Dan Jury, Mack was a founder of the film distribution company, Home Film Festival, the first national home video company to rent and sell VHS and DVD foreign and domestic feature films through the mail, whose concept became Netflix.[clarification needed][citation needed] Film critic Roger Ebert did a feature segment on Home Film Festival for his television program, describing HFF as "an idea whose time has come."[citation needed]
Mack independently produced his Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity project, a photographic essay and documentary film on the patients at an American maximum security hospital for the criminally insane. This work appeared in exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Reiss Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany, with his photography purchased and included in both museums' permanent collections.[citation needed]
Moving to Los Angeles, Mack, along with Pamela Galvin and Stephen Molton, produced and directed LA Homefront, an independent documentary on the Rodney King incident and resulting riots, which received notable film festival exposure. The film was purchased by Showtime Networks, and when aired nationally was introduced by then President Clinton as an important film combating racism in America.[citation needed]
Mack's next documentary, Robert Schuller: Portrait of a Televangelist, was commissioned by France's Studio Canal Plus.[citation needed]
Robert Mack Films moved into feature film development and production when Mack produced the dramatic short film Four Reasons, Radha Mitchell's writing and directing debut, starring Mitchell, Josh Lucas, Jared Harris and Ivana Milicevic. The film unfolds as a beautiful muse spends the night telling a blocked writer four seemingly unrelated stories of love and family, which in the end begins their story.[citation needed]
Written and directed by Mack, the in-development film Saving Jesus is set in the world of televangelism, and examines love, guilt, and faith through the eyes of a seemingly naïve, brain-damaged, female protagonist. Radha Mitchell and Stephen Dorff are attached to star, with Seamus McGarvey as potential Director of Photography.[citation needed]
Art and museum exhibitions
The Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity project exhibition took place at ZEPHYR – Space for Photography!, in the Bassermannhaus Museum at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, presented by Zephyr Director and Curator Thomas Schirmböck in Mannheim, Germany from June 16 to August 25, 2013.[2][3]
This body of work also showed at the Baltimore Museum of Art 30 years prior, but then no longer appeared presentable and fell into oblivion.[3] Ten of the pieces are in the museum's permanent collection.[4][not in citation given] The Fahey Klein Gallery represents his photography in Los Angeles.[citation needed][not in citation given]
Non-profit arts foundations
While living in New York City, Mack was an executive of the non-profit foundation Valley Filmworks, dedicated to promoting documentary film as an art form.[citation needed] The foundation held Documentary Film Week, a film festival event. Mack produced and directed their gala event, held at the Carnegie Hall Cinema. The event highlighted films and filmmakers of documentary history, and was hosted by Walter Cronkite with presenters including Martin Scorsese, Louis Malle, and Jack Valenti.[citation needed]
Mack resides in Los Angeles and Morongo Valley, California, where he established a 501–C3 non-profit arts foundation, which includes an artist residency and art studio.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ "Matthew Mack". matthewmack.com. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
- ↑ "REISS ENGELHORN MUSEUM Artist Robert Mack". Retrieved 2017-11-11.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "robert mack & grace zaccardi". Zephyr Mannheim. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ↑ "Robert Mack LACDA". Retrieved 2018-03-13.
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