Justin Thaler

Justin Thaler (born May 26, 1976) is an American award winning screenwriter, film, commercial and music video director. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. He has lived in Florida, Connecticut, California, Illinois, South Carolina, Italy, and Egypt.

Biography

Justin Thaler was born in Orlando, Florida. His career as a filmmaker began on commercial sets in Northern California when at a young age he would film behind the scenes footage for various production companies with clients such as Hallmark and Ford Motor Company. He soon began creating various live music videos for bands like NOFX, Earth Crisis, Green Day, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, The Champions, and In/Humanity. He served as a bassist for the Charleston, SC band's Status Quo, Turmoil & the Chicago, IL band Sundoze.

The style of his videos were both unique and varied and often culled from the Cinema of Transgression. He went on to direct the video for the Grammy Award winning band Liquid Soul for their take on a Dizzy Gillespie classic "Salt Peanuts". The collaboration proved successful and the video was shown on VH1, Much Music, NFL Half Time Show, and various outlets such as Rollingstone.com.

Other artists who have collaborated with Thaler on occasion include The Hallow, Much The Same, First Class, Dick Prall, Marty Casey & Lovehammers and The Frantic. Thaler has also created television commercials, short films and series of oil pantings. He is a member of the "Rural Infiltration" a collective of artists whose work challenges the mainstream.

Professional career

Thaler has done many music videos and film projects. He recently finished co-writing, The People In-Between, a first collaboration with screenwriter / artist BROOKSY ( whose art has appeared in The San Francisco Guardian, City Lights Bookstore, and on two featured lines of Nobyl Skateboards ) for a feature film to be directed by Thaler based on their time in Charleston South Carolina. His videos utilize many of the image manipulation techniques that he has experimented with in his short films such as Bohemian Logic. The style of Thaler's music videos often relies on videography and camera tricks which play with frames of reference. He has worked with Red Star Studios, Collective Films, Eight Ball Films, Spots BME, Red Car, I^3, Disney Motion Picture Studios, Touchstone Pictures, Hughes Entertainment, Stock Yard Films, and Cinelease Inc Motion Picture Rentals. John Thaler, his brother, is also an accomplished Skateboarder & renowned Photographer and has won various awards for his work.

Feature Films

*Liquor Park – Million Ways Productions
*The Last Cigarette – Lost Films
*Martini Blues – Mark Schabel Films
*New Port South – Hughes Entertainment / Touchstone Pictures
*Return To Me - MGM / JLT Productions
*Just Visiting - Hollywood Pictures / Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont
*Chasers - Morgan Creek Productions / Warner Bros. Pictures

Music Videos

"Black & White" - Dick Prall (2007) Authentic Records / Paperwork Media
"Audio & Murder" - The Frantic (2007) Sinister Muse Records
"Bonafide" - Devious (2007) Demo Mix USA
"Day Two And Counting..." - The Hallow (2007) Window Licker Records
"Bela (Lugosi) Ain't Got Sh*t On Me" - The Hallow (2007) Window Licker Records
"Rain" - Dead Town Revival (2007) Sinister Muse Records
"Trees" - Marty Casey & The Lovehammers (2006)
"Thrown Away" - Undercast (2005)
"Utica's Too Far Away" - Myopia (2005) Limpy Records - Live At The Fireside Bowl
"Any More Lonely" - First Class (2004) Johann's Face Records
"In Tempo di Valse" - Vermeer Quartet (2001) Naxos Classical & Art Beat Chicago TV Show
"Animated Corpse" - Tilt (2000) Fat Wrechords
"S.O.S." - Creature Comforts (1998) Noisome Records
"Welcome 2 The Party" - Kid Rock (1998) Lava / Atlantic Records
"Salt Peanuts" - Liquid Soul (1998) Ark 21 Recording Co.

Commercials

GAP – Artistic Interlude / Commercial For Stock Yard Films
McDonalds-Winner! / Commercial For Leo Burnett & McDonalds Corp.
Fogo De Chao- Commercial For CityExplorer.TV
BodyWedge 21+ / Commercial & Series of DVDs For Stock Yard Films & Home Shopping Network
Patrick Goudeaux – Series of Exercise DVDs For Stock Yard Films
All-State & Leo Burnett 50th Anniversary – For Poetic Productions
American Equestrian Championships – RNS Media