Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World
The Artist Who Designed Ridley Scott's Alien
A cerebral portrait of a visionary artist whose nightmarish biomechanical aesthetic emerged from a tormented inner world, balancing fascination with darkness.
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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