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==An Interview with the artist H.R Giger: The Surrealist who shaped the look of genre film design, on his art and imitators - by Jan Doense & Les Paul Robley==

1. H.R Giger is considered to be a Swiss surrealist and has revolutionized the look of sci-fi, close relation to H.P. Lovecraft. He enjoys using religious visual language in some, if not all, of his paintings. Made the Necronomicon, inspired by Lovecraft. In order to have greater control over his work he has himself decided to direct his own movie, "The Mirror" - it relates to the Necronomicon and his paintings of it.

2. Giger constructs his pieces using large 420cm x 240 cm canvasses he calls 'environments'. Like Salvador Dali, he uses what's called a dumbwaiter system to arrange his works. He views "Aliens" as a Rambo-esque film, which he dislikes.

3. (About the jockey)"[...] its bones, mucls, and tendons indistinguishable from the mount's tubes, cables and conduit."

The Giger bbiomechanoid look, at once terrifying and erotic.

"Still, who can doubt that Giger's surreal vision of the future profoundly touched something in us, remapping our sense of "the other," the alien, while resurrecting dance of death skeletal iconography to haunt us with our own mortality."

4. Attempts to mimic Giger in movies: Alien Contamination, XTRO, Captain EO, Creature, Horror Planet, Forbidden World, Scared to Death.

Giger made us rethink the alien as not necessarily a creature, but a creature as part of its habitat, and what technology could look like.

Alien is said to be part of the Spaceship-gothic genre

"More than anyone else, it was Giger who persuaded us that the future may have as much to do with slime as with circuitry, that advanced life forms may have advanced beyond or developed outside of our mechanical- and electronic-centered conception of technology."

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Giger has been inspired by Hieronymous Bosch, but also Gaudi, Dali, Kubin Interesting Giger-influenced movies: Saturn 3(Rampaging robot on Saturn Moon-colony), Lifeforce (Space-vampires in gothic spaceship)

cont. pg. 8-9