- John DeFazio is most known for his raw, cerebral, and emotionally driven cinematography. DeFazio is a Los Angeles based cinematographer, film-maker, and mixed-media artist and holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University's Design and Art programs and a Masters from USC's Film Production Program. He is an active member of Film Independent, the International Cinematographer's Guild Local 600, and also Local 80.
DeFazio's most recent crime thriller stars Oscar winners Mira Sorvino and Richard Dreyfuss and was distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment. He has shot a multitude of award-winning and internationally recognized films, some of which have hit Sundance ("Crossing", "Roam") and the Cannes International Film Festival ("9:30"). DeFazio has shot for legendary Hollywood directors and producers such as Joe Dante ("Gremlins"), Paul Schrader ("American Gigalo" and screenwriter of "Taxi Driver" & "Raging Bull", as well as James Franco, Eli Roth and Roger Corman. DeFazio has served as the cinematographer on the controversial film "The Canyons" starring Lindsay Lohan and written by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Less Than Zero). He has also shot Joe Dante's "Splatter" horror series for Netflix and Bloodheist for producer/writer James Franco.
John's directorial work consistently explores the decay and rebirth of the human consciousness, the fragility of the human condition, in particular-the fluid boundaries of love & loss, and the contextualization of human existence. DeFazio has described his work as a mechanism for interfacing with the instinctive fear & love of the consciousness, and the pursuit to cope with distances in feeling and pain.
Off the movie set DeFazio is an avid mixed-media and glitch artist, exploiting the aesthetics and procedure of art-making through data-moshing, compression artifacts, intra-frame video break-up, and physical degeneration. He uses non-traditional materials such as organically grown rust, grease, resin, and grunge remnants mixed with more traditional materials such as photographs, glass, steel, plaster, and found metal objects. DeFazio is a firm believer in the "process" of art as the ultimate message and does not display his work publicly. He often destroys his works upon completion, only retaining documentation of their completed forms.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Karin Chien
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