Visual Review - Visual Hollywood

ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
DAVID FINCHER
(Director)
Filmmakers are
Revolutionaries
Unaware
Inspired by the film, Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid, he began making movies at
the age of eight with an 8 mm camera.
Filmmaking seemed the perfect outlet for a
kid who could spend all day drawing and
loved to make sculptures, take pictures and
tape-record. Fincher eschewed the film
school route, getting a job loading cameras
and doing other hands-on work for John
Korty's Korty Films. He next got a job at
Industrial Light and Magic in 1980 with his
first screen credit being for Return of the
Jedi, and stayed until 1984.
Fincher directed big-budget music videos
for artists such as Madonna, Jody Watley,
Rick Springfield, Steve Winwood, George
Michael, Aerosmith, Paula Abdul, the
Rolling Stones, Nine Inch Nails, etc. Like a
number of other music video directors, he
then moved into film.