Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World
The Artist Who Designed Ridley Scott's Alien
2014 · 1h 36m · Not Rated
Documentary
Directed by
Belinda Sallin
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Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World
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An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome as they are fascinating, inhabitants of nightmarish biomechanical worlds.
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