Luke Losey

Luke Losey (born 9 January 1968) is a film director, lighting designer and photographer. His work has been seen in avant-garde and mainstream media.

Losey is the son of the film producer Gavrik Losey and the former British ballerina Sally Chesterton, and the grandson of the film director Joseph Losey and the fashion designer Elizabeth Hawes. He is the nephew of the actor, Joshua Losey, and the brother of Marek Losey, who is also a film director. He grew up in Paddington, London, where he attended Hallfield Infants and Junior School in Royal Oak. He then attended Hampstead comprehensive in Camden, North London. Suffering from dyslexia, he left school without qualifications.

As a child he was obsessed with science fiction. In 1975 a chance viewing of Kubrick’s 2001 and the gift of a Brownie camera led to him becoming obsessed with capturing images. After leaving school in 1984 he worked as a runner on film sets and for production companies. He worked on Derek Jarman’s film Carravagio as the floor runner. He spent much of the late 1980s working as an art department runner/assistant on films, music videos and ads. Involvement in the early rave and squatting scene in north London led to him getting involved in lighting and film projection.

In the early 1990s he met the electronic band Orbital. With video artist Giles Thacker he created the visual elements of Orbital’s live show, a fusion of carefully prepared visuals and lighting that flew in the face of the staid fractal influenced imagery of the day, with wry observations on everyday life.

In 1998, Losey co-directed a music video for Orbital's single The Box, which starred Tilda Swinton and was inspired by time-lapse animation. The promo won a silver spire for the Best Short Film at the San Francisco film festival, and was nominated for the best video award at the 1998 MTV awards. It also closed the Edinburgh film festival, opened the London film festival, screened at Sundance and was seen at almost every festival that year. In 1999 Losey created a second music video for Orbital called Style, with Jonathan Charles as director of animation. Style also uses stop motion animation throughout and is a surreal take on Kafka's The Metamorphosis, influenced by the work of Jan Švankmajer. Both The Box and Style continue to be widely shown.

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